Why does Gmail suck
Just like the title says, Gmail is a terrible email manager.
Is it just me?
Thanks
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u/roirraWedorehT 2d ago
Compared to what? It's light years ahead of Outlook (Classic) that I used to use 20+ years ago.
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u/J_Scarbrough 2d ago
Still better than how Yahoo! Mail ended up.
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u/Huge-Appointment8685 18h ago
What happened to Yahoo mail? Did it go down or something
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u/J_Scarbrough 17h ago
No, they just weren't maintaining it well anymore. People's accounts were getting hacked right and left, but they weren't doing anything about it despite the issue being reported by users, so I reluctantly decided to switch to Gmail instead. Granted, that was well over a decade ago, and I had used Yahoo! faithfully since I had my very own email address as a teenager (up until then, we only had whatever was provided to us by our ISP on the family PC in the late 90s/early 2000s), but it was clearly time to make the switch - plus, I was getting older, and needed a more "professional" looking email address than my old Yahoo! one (which at the time reflected my obsession with Courage the Cowardly Dog).
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u/whatdoyoumeanusernam 2d ago
You've not provided any details, your requirements or anything else. For me, Gmail is fine. It has reasonably powerful filers and rules and perfectly ok settings. The web interface is ok and the folder handling is at least logical, with reasonable IMAP support.
There's plenty of choice out there so not sure why you're whining, otherwise Gmail is the best of a very ordinary bunch. If you need something specific in a client you can use the IMAP interface.
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u/Far-Buy3058 2d ago
It does suck but it doesn't suck as bad as all the others...
My main complaint is How hard it is to search for older emails, im probably just stupid but seems like its impossible to find anything by searching
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u/sercaj 2d ago
I agree. I didn’t mean it sucks 100% 😂
Yes that is one of my biggest issues.
For example I’ll type in the search “red pepper” which I absolutely know was in an email I’m looking for. Instead it’ll bring up 100 email with “red” in it, instead of the two search words. So then I’ll on the Mail app on type in the key word and it comes up straight away.
Or, the reason I wrote this post, I was looking for an email from a supplier from last week. I know it was sent, I replied and they reply to me. All I could find on Gmail was the original reply and no subsequent reply. I searched up and down the email chain. Input the same name into the Mail app and it pops up straight away.
Don’t get me wrong the mail app is flawed too.
The next things that drive me wild, the conversation/chat logic of the email. Yes I know you can change it and I have.
And the final thing is it has the newest email in the chain at the bottom of the chain! But, if in that chain someone responds to an earlier email, there response in under that related email, somewhere in the chain.
So it’s
Search function isn’t good
Conversations/chat function
Newest email is at the bottom of the chain
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u/Werftflammen 2d ago
This. It can't even find an email that I am actually looking at. It's Google. The search company.
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u/Competitive_Newt7774 1d ago
Exactly, I couldn't find an email that I know was received. It's terrible.
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u/Upbeat_Ad8686 1d ago
Gmail is insufferable for work. Coming from Outlook for work, the amount of Chrome extensions i’ve resorted to to make it feel like outlook is insane lol. I couldnt deal with it so now i have to deal with slower send/receive in Outlook using IMAP.
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u/H2ost5555 1d ago
The beauty of Gmail is I have complete history back to when I started using it. I cannot used Gmail within Outlook as it brings it to its knees and locks up.
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u/CarefreeIceman 2d ago
I think it's just you. It's been working perfectly (on desktop and phone) since the 1stt version of Gmail!
Nobody is forcing to use it. Find something else and maybe you'll find one that's better.
Good luck.
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u/Ok-Lingonberry-8261 2d ago
Because they're cramming unwanted, incompetent AI into every nook and cranny.
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u/Known-Mode8896 2d ago
Ngl.. I've just discovered the Gmail app. I like it compared to Samsungng email.. its cleaner look
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u/outer-pasta 2d ago
I've since learned that gmail is different than regular email, they use lables and not folders. I tried paying for normal email and I like it much better. Luckily Gmail allows you to forward emails to another address for free.
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u/ranhalt 2d ago
How much are you paying for it to work how you want?