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Gmail vs Yahoo

Gunpowder

Gunpowder

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As part of my job I send out a newsletter to my patrons via e-mail. Over the years I have noticed that Yahoo will graylist the newsletter for awhile. In my last newsletter I noted 17 yahoo accounts that were not deliverable after 5 days. They were not all of my yahoo related subscribers so I assumed they were bad so I deleted them.

I just found out those addresses, or at least some of them were good. I am so pissed at Yahoo and tired of their system that gives me this kind of trouble. One of my patrons is switching to gmail as he discovered Yahoo does not support gmail chrome. I often thought of switching myself as I have a personal yahoo account that I never use anymore since yahoo upgraded their system a year or so ago which prohibited me from checking it anymore due to timeouts (I am on dial-up).

Anyway. Does anyone know if gmail is smoother sailing? I am especially interested in those of you who send bulk to gmail accounts. do they graylist?

Mike
 
Go Gmail and you'll never look back. Once you learn how Gmail works, you'll love it. It also blocks virtually ALL spam from entering your inbox, something Yahoo struggles to do.
 
I also use gmail. I have two accounts and it is great.
It does a great job of blocking spam.
 
Rod said:
Go Gmail and you'll never look back. Once you learn how Gmail works, you'll love it. It also blocks virtually ALL spam from entering your inbox, something Yahoo struggles to do.
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Completely agree 100%. I love my Gmail account. It just seems like a smoother system.
 
I recently got a Gmail account because I have a G1 phone, I love it... I forwarded all of my other emails accounts to it as well.
 
Gmail is the best free mail provider out there without a doubt.
 
Gmail is the way to go...I agree with Rod on if you use it you won't go back.

Melly
 
Gmail is prolly the best I have used. Go with it, you won't looks back.
Rob
 
Gunpowder said:
As part of my job I send out a newsletter to my patrons via e-mail. Over the years I have noticed that Yahoo will graylist the newsletter for awhile. In my last newsletter I noted 17 yahoo accounts that were not deliverable after 5 days. They were not all of my yahoo related subscribers so I assumed they were bad so I deleted them.

I just found out those addresses, or at least some of them were good. I am so pissed at Yahoo and tired of their system that gives me this kind of trouble. One of my patrons is switching to gmail as he discovered Yahoo does not support gmail chrome. I often thought of switching myself as I have a personal yahoo account that I never use anymore since yahoo upgraded their system a year or so ago which prohibited me from checking it anymore due to timeouts (I am on dial-up).

Anyway. Does anyone know if gmail is smoother sailing? I am especially interested in those of you who send bulk to gmail accounts. do they graylist?

Mike
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Gmail is great for personal use. As far as email newsletters are concerned I prefer to use services like MailChimp or Constant Contact. I like the statistics and they seem to be the best at getting around SPAM filters when your email lists are legitimate.

Just my $0.02 :thumbs:
 
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Gunpowder said:
As part of my job I send out a newsletter to my patrons via e-mail. Over the years I have noticed that Yahoo will graylist the newsletter for awhile. In my last newsletter I noted 17 yahoo accounts that were not deliverable after 5 days. They were not all of my yahoo related subscribers so I assumed they were bad so I deleted them.

I just found out those addresses, or at least some of them were good. I am so pissed at Yahoo and tired of their system that gives me this kind of trouble. One of my patrons is switching to gmail as he discovered Yahoo does not support gmail chrome. I often thought of switching myself as I have a personal yahoo account that I never use anymore since yahoo upgraded their system a year or so ago which prohibited me from checking it anymore due to timeouts (I am on dial-up).

Anyway. Does anyone know if gmail is smoother sailing? I am especially interested in those of you who send bulk to gmail accounts. do they graylist?

Mike
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Gmail is great for personal use. As far as email newsletters are concerned I prefer to use services like MailChimp or Constant Contact. I like the statistics and they seem to be the best at getting around SPAM filters when your email lists are legitimate.

Just my $0.02 :thumbs:
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We also use MailBuild. But as for email, GMAIL is great but I set up a domain for my name that I use for email.
 
The question will be how it handles bulk mail. Yahoo graylists it meaning it temporary holds it. If it is legit the sender (in my case my provider) continues to send it multiple times trying to get it through. Thats the messages some of you get that say " temporarly graylisted, will keep trying for 5 days....

Once Yahoo gets the second, or the billionth resend, it usually permits it to go on through. I think Yahoo graylists if you are including maybe 3 or 5 people in the same e-mail.
 
Rod said:
Go Gmail and you'll never look back. Once you learn how Gmail works, you'll love it. It also blocks virtually ALL spam from entering your inbox, something Yahoo struggles to do.
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I would agree here. Ihave both and then tried ymail two weeks ago and once I signed up they asked to pay extra for spam filter...I said no, and the next day...300 new messages. You can guess what they were. :laugh:
 
I also switched to gmail when I received my G1 phone. Before gmail I used Yahoo and thought it was great, when I switched to gmail I thought to myself "how have I been going without this for so long?!" Its a great e-mail system and I love the the way they set up the "filing" system. Great e-mail service and once you figure things out you'll never go back. Check out Google Docs and Google Calendars once you sign up!
 
GMail is pretty much the best, the ever-growing amount of storage isn't bad either. If you (or anyone else) need an invite, just PM me, I've got a zillion.

EDIT- Didn't know they changed it to open sign-ups. Talk about observant.
 
I miss my "You got Mail" from my old AOL account.....

Tim

but I have both, Yahoo for semi work related, and gmail for most everything else.
 
smokintexas said:
I also switched to gmail when I received my G1 phone. Before gmail I used Yahoo and thought it was great, when I switched to gmail I thought to myself "how have I been going without this for so long?!" Its a great e-mail system and I love the the way they set up the "filing" system. Great e-mail service and once you figure things out you'll never go back. Check out Google Docs and Google Calendars once you sign up!
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X2, especially the bold. I've had a yahoo account for years, but added a gmail account about 6 months ago. It took a little while to get used to, but after a few weeks you'll wonder how you ever used yahoo mail. The grouping of conversations rocks. Also, gmail has a very good messenger/chat feature if you're into that kind of thing.

I'm pretty sure that Google doesn't greylist, but it's not stated anywhere in their write-ups. I haven't had any problems with receiving automated messages from CP, evite invitations, newsletters from various vendors, etc. I've also not had a single piece of spam hit my inbox since I've joined.

I've been meaning to get the wifey to switch over from yahoo - she asked me to open her email the other day to check something for her and there were 150 new messages - 3 of them weren't spam.

GMAIL FTW!!!!
 
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