Gmail Sucks

Michael Dale

We're finally moving one of our clients away from Gmail. We have be using Gmail there for the last few years and it has been painful.

The product is bad. We have had a number of times where email accounts will be locked out for no reason, passwords will be rejected and the stupid capture is impossible to read (required to unlock the account).

The email threading confuses most people I've talked to and it doesn't work correctly with many email clients.

The web interface isn't designed well and I don't like the idea of an advertising company having access to my email.

On the iPhone gmail is also really slow at sending/receiving emails compared to my email server.

The only good thing about Gmail is the search, but Mail.app on the mac seems to work just as well.

In fact most of the google products I have used aren't that good. Postini has the worst admin interface I have ever seen, it is really slow and again another bad design.

I don't understand why so many of googles products are so lacking. I would say that they offer just enough features to get people locked into their system.

I don't think I'll ever recommend a business use Google for anything.