Now I know why GMail is GMail !

June 20th, 2004 at 11:33am

Wow……….. You will love GMail. Its just tooo good. Can’t believe that its for free !. After using gmail for a couple of hours, I can easily say that I would be very easily beat up MS outlook or eudora or any other pop3/exchange client!

Lot of JavaScript, and these are JavaScript that work, without throwing any error at you !. That’s one of the best part. Very fast since most of it happens at client side!.

Let me now talk about some of the features…..

• As mentioned in almost all the reviews, the labels concept is very good. More or less like a folder. But the difference is, here, the system takes care of putting the mail into the folder (or labeling it!)
• Fundu search .. ie, google search for your mail. You will definitely need a robust search when you have 1GB of mail in your box !.. and this search is as good as google search
• You can star the message. Something like flagging a message. Useful feature.
• By default, the mails are grouped by conversation. The last mail that came in is displayed……
• The UI is real fundu. Lot of space on your screen is saved. And DHTML again comes in here!
• The prev conversation in a mail, with all the > > is hidden, to save screen space. You can see the entire conversation by just clicking a button!.
• The Keyboard shortcut is just too much. Never see such stuff in any of the web based mails!..
• The spell check feature when you compose the mail works like a charm!.. Again seems like its DHTML + some activex code …………on win platform. …But its too fast., and cool.
• You CAN change the “Reply-To” address!.. in settings.. and the Name also.
• You can turn on/off the keyboard shortcuts (by default its off).
• Very good help/documentation.
• You can set up your signature in the settings
• filters are there.
• there is a spam filter.. but haven’t’ received any spam yet. So………. yet to see how it would work! I am sure, even that would work like a charm!
• Ads………That’s also pretty good..All adds in the right slide. No pop ups .. no ads on the top……… no BIG Flash movies as Ads. Only text based add., and sometimes they are helpful too :)
• There is much more…..This is just the tip of the iceberg!

Overall, a very good fundu system.
No wonder people all over are going crazy over it!. Already tons of utils are available for gmail (all third party).

I have come aross utils which manage to emulate pop box ! Something like yahoopops! (for gmail!).. and one more called gTray!

I am sure that this one is going to be a big time hit.., and would give sleepless nights to yahoo and hotmail! Its not 1 GB or N GBs that you give that matters. Its the features, and the quality that matters, and thats why gmail is gmail!

:)

Kudos to the gmail team!. Great work folks!

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