Google's Gmail Goes Into Beta for Blogger Users 350
deadpixel writes "Gmail, the 1gb webmail service offered
by Google, has gone into beta. Blogger
(owned by google) users have first crack at the service. Besides the massive
storage, the free service boasts a sophisticated spam filter, no
pop-ups/banners, and gives you search results relevant to the emails you receive
automatically. Bring on those attachments!"
Not for all Blogger users... (Score:4, Informative)
You need to be an active blogger (Score:5, Informative)
Got this yesterday (Score:5, Informative)
Click yes, answer yes to all of the questions that follow, and you have your very own GMail account.
I have had this for what, 24 hours now I guess, and GMail is the best webmail interface I've ever seen.
The one thing I don't like so far is that links, elinks, or links2 don't work with it. They do support javascript AFAIK which is what GMail is basically comprised of, but that's my only gripe.
Can't wait for POP or, preferably, IMAP access. Even more preferably, IMAP over SSL.
Re:1gig? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Details? (Score:5, Informative)
Not all blogger users have been invited. And people who are joining blogger now after the announcement are not getting accounts.
The ad (Score:5, Informative)
There's an image header - http://blogger.com/g-logo.gif
As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email service, Gmail [google.com].
Would you like to give it a whirl? YES / NO
The YES link opens up this page [blogspot.com]
The NO links pops an alert box saying 'Okay, this notice will be here for a few more days, should you change your mind.' or similar.
Re:1gig? (Score:4, Informative)
True, it'd be nice if MiB and GiB became standard. For the record, this link [nist.gov] explains the actual SI standards and binary multiples.
The Gmail scanner... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Details? (Score:1, Informative)
That's indeed how it was for me; strange thing is, that invitation is still there now that I've joined gmail.
You can't create more than one account, though (well, maybe I can cheat somehow but I haven't put too much effort into it).
Re:Details? (Score:5, Informative)
As their announcement says:
As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email service, Gmail.
Would you like to give it a whirl? YES / NO
Re:1gig? (Score:5, Informative)
heh.. (Score:5, Informative)
I don't see why people think gmail's spam filter is all that great - so far (and this may be due to beta issues, a lack of training etc) its allowed about 50% of spam to my account through. I've got a couple spam infested accounts forwarding to gmail to test this out.
as for the ads, on most messages they're not even there and when they are they're very small and placed to the side of the page like google's search engine text ads. I don't even notice them. So its not like they're inserted into your mail really. And at least google doesn't attach "get your hotmail address now!" to the bottom of every outgoing email.
So while it is cool (the best feature is the seamless conversations), it's not going to be for everyone, or cause a mass exodus from existing mail services.
Re:1gig? (Score:5, Informative)
Be bold and be proud of your geekdom! Say "mebibytes" and "gibibytes" in public!!
Re:Details? (Score:4, Informative)
First impressions (Score:5, Informative)
I tried registering some short usernames, the username has to be 6 characters or longer.
So I have a leet 6-character name@gmail.com.
Transit time for sent and recived mail is near-instantaneous.
The interface is trademark google utilitarian. Two thumbs up.
I sent some test spam from my spam folder, they got into my inbox (and not to my 'spam'
folder on gmail). So they have some tweaking to do there.
For those who are curious... (Score:5, Informative)
Inbox [citking.net]
Example message w/ text ads present [citking.net]
The only thing different is the "@gmail.com" e-mail addy at the top...I cut mine out just to avoid any potential issues...sorry.
SpyMac: An Alternative free 1 GB e-mail account (Score:4, Informative)
1 GB e-mail account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum, gallery, auctions and more
Of course, They are primarily mac-oriented, but I can deal with it.
Re:I signed up and read the TOS (Score:3, Informative)
nope (Score:4, Informative)
Re:say it ain't so! (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, the latest versions of browsers can do DHTML quite nicely with similar results. I've been making a small tool using DHTML and the only problem so far has been with IE which always complain "There is a problem loading the page" despite the fact that it loads it successfully.
Re:Possibilities (Score:4, Informative)
Username (Score:2, Informative)
username choice!
For the first time in my life, I don't need to get some goony name like "g733p42" because ALL the possible permutations of normal words are already taken.
Yaay blogger!
Re:Safari not supported? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:The Gmail scanner... (Score:4, Informative)
If a PGP encrypted message is sent with a PGP encrypted attchment bearing the file extension
In both cases, the subject was a line cut from the ciphertext in the body of the message.
Does this mean that Gmail scans attachments as well as the body of an email?
Re:Details? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Gmail (legit) vs. Spymac (illegit) (Score:5, Informative)
People think there's concerns with Gmail and privacy - yet YOU would trust your email to a site that HAS NEVER backed away from the iWalk PDA being a fake, that consistently breaks MUG rules (they claim to be a MUG, yet moderators post rumors - a no no).
THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD TRUST SPYMAC with any password, email address, home address or any other information
SpyMac is just the shiniest car in the parking lot. Be careful though, there may be flood damage under the hood.
The other thing that bothers me about SpyMac is that their moderators troll the web and forums looking for ANYONE that says something bad about the site.
Re:will it FUNCTION.... (Score:2, Informative)
Just signed up (Score:3, Informative)
Screenshots (Score:1, Informative)
A suitably respected authority, as requested (Score:3, Informative)
If you want an authority for this you don't need to look very hard, just hit the Jargon File. [catb.org]
quantifiers
In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Système International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of multiplication by powers of 1000 = 10^3. But when used with bytes or other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^10.
Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the corresponding binary interpretations in common use:
prefix decimal binary
kilo- 1000^1 1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024
mega- 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576
giga- 1000^3 1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824
tera- 1000^4 1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776
peta- 1000^5 1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624
exa- 1000^6 1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
zetta- 1000^7 1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
yotta- 1000^8 1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
Re:The ad (Score:2, Informative)
i wonder where the signup form is POSTed to... would you happen to know the FORM's action?
Re:SpyMac: An Alternative free 1 GB e-mail account (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Gmail vs. Spymac (Score:3, Informative)
Gmail impressions and 10 screenshots (Score:4, Informative)
The only complain I have so far is that by default, it didn't catch any of the spam I received. However, I've reported all of it as spam, so it will be interesting to see if it improves based upon that. So far though, its spam filter doesn't seem quite in line with filters such as the one in Apple's Mail client. Speaking of Apple, it does appear to work pretty well in Safari. There are a few quirks compared to loading it in Firefox, but nothing show-stopping.
If they can work out the spam filter and polish everything up, which I'm sure they can, they've got a true winner here. I'm copying over all of my regular POP3 e-mail to my new Gmail account so that I can access it anywhere and perform more in-depth searching on it. After all, if there's one thing Gmail tops all web and application-based Mail clients on, it is definitely searching.
I urge you to check out these screenshots for a better look at Gmail than the two or three screenshots others have posted by clicking here [modblog.com].
Gmail is as good as the hype suggested
Re:SpyMac: An Alternative free 1 GB e-mail account (Score:1, Informative)