Peter Stathakos - Stack Of Toast

I agree, GMail shouldn't be wearing the beta badge anymore. But Hotmail isn't perfect either. Here's my beefs:

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2007/05/03/112217.aspx

Hi, every time i try to open my gmail account, it prompts saying that it's an insecure website and gives you 3 options, to either not continue or continue and risk your computer, and other third one that i know doesn't apply to me

so what's going on? i rely on my gmail account for business and personal use, and it's really inconvinient to have this error for the last 5 hours!!
can you please explain??

Hi Masha,

I don't think that it's Gmail giving you that message, that's probably coming from Internet Explorer 7. IE does not like something that about the Gmail site and is raising this warning to you in the case that you might be going to a bad or malicious site.

If you're sure that you are going to Gmail's site and are not being redirected somewhere bad, then it's probably safe to ignore the warning. If you're at all suspicious about it then it's better to make sure you're actually going to Gmail, the address should be http://mail.google.com

Good luck.

I'll tell you what's wrong with gmail:

1. They deleted all my messages from my inbox, so i lost everything, virtually. Yes I looked in all folders, ran a search for the missing messages, did everything i could to find them, aside from nailing flyers to trees and posts in my neighborhood.

2. I contacted gmail (through some long roundabout process that takes you back to the same set of questions until you're ready to throw your computer across the room, easier done if you have a laptop) and guess what? They asked me to change my password. Big help.

3. I changed my password, but the account wouldn't accept it and kept reverting back to the old password. Yes, i followed all the steps, I am not a moron.

4. I posted my queries on the gmail help discussion group and couldn't log in to respond because guess what? My account doesn't even exist anymore. It's gone. Poof! No account with that username exists. That means that i no longer have a gmail address, I cannot access my contacts, and people sending me emails at the gmail address are wondering what the hell happened.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Aside from my accumulated bad karma, that is.

Please I want to know what happened to my older gmail account rodoblanco@gmail.com

Gmail is still screwed up. What can I do to fix it?

Gmail is the only browser I use for all my day to day work I receive from abroad. What happened to it. Now I am totally confused not knowing how to proceed further. It is the outcome of years of browsing and now all are going to the dustbin. It's is quite unfair to discontinue services just like that without prior notice or warning. shit

have not been able to open my gmail acct for 2 days

I can't open my gmail today. Yesterday I could open it with no problem.

This worked for me:
- Log off from a google page that works - google.com has a sign off button at the top right.
- Go to gmail.com.
- It will ask you to sign in. Do so.
- Cross your fingers and say "work for me too! work for me too!"

my gmail displays my name as efjjamros@gmail.com and i can not get any email, my box is always empty, and how do i change my email address, can not talk to anyone.

Gmail could be really good. It's so close.

My main complaint is that it's so non-intuitive. For example, I simply wanted to remove a contact from one of my groups without deleting that person's info from my contact list. There's no simple way to do that.

Even when I try the "Remove From..." option in Groups view, nothing happens. The name remains in the group that I want to remove it from. So, I tried "Delete Contact", hoping it would only extricate her from the particular group I was trying to edit.

No such luck.

I completely lost one contact because I deleted her from my contacts list, thinking I was just removing her from a particular group. Meanwhile, the next time I wanted to remove a contact from a group, I had to delete her completely from my database and then re-enter her information all over again so I could put her name in the one group I wanted her to remain in.

That's just but one example. All too often, things that should take a few clicks take me much longer to figure out (if I can figure them out at all). All my other email services work fine and do what I expect them to--why not Gmail?

So far, Yahoo! Mail has my vote as the best. At least, the one you pay for does (I have it with my Verizon account). Not only is the online interface fast and intuitive, but it plays so nice with my Blackberry (another minus for Gmail).

-- Mike

I had my g-mail address changed from lufllane@sbcglobal.net
to luflane@sbcglobal.net but the change still had an extra l
in it. Please help me get this right.
I also paid for the change

I keep getting

Internet Explorere cannot open the internet site http://mail.google.com/mail/
Operation aborted

This has been happening for the past 2 days, and has occured randomly over the past two years or so since I joined Gmail. Why is this always happening. I have some very important emails that I need to open. As a result, I've opened a netscape account.

Try the old Google interface
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1
it worked perfectly with me

i have disabled my account i want use again this account.

Yep, the "old" UI (https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1) works!

so hard to sign in could not get through. some time it works i can open my mailbox after read my email then i sign out sign in with diff email i couldn't..i cant read my important email very bad for my business because i thought Gmail is a good one really f**ck me up these days. i have tried to contact gmail but it does not work!!!! then have gmail team for what!!!!

Some Internet Explorer 7 users are reporting the error message "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://mail.gmail.com/mail/. Operation aborted." If you're experiencing this problem, please use Mozilla Firefox or the older version of Gmail.

**new version of Gmail available for Firefox2 only thats why you need to download to your computer.

1.download Mozilla Firefox2, go to www.mozilla.org/products

2.download one of the program they provide then all ur problem will be gone. it work for me eventually!!

good luck!

In the last a couple of weeks, I keep getting this error message when send mail. "Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#008)". Also the speed is very slow too. Not sure, they are improve the gmail or just make things worse.

I couldn't able to open Gmail in Internet explorer

Iv'e tried for the last four days to get to my emails, but can't.

i'm not at home at present, but i have never had any problems reading emails.from here

I have been using Gmail now for 5 years, and never any problems but recently it became really slow and slower. What is wrong with gmail????

No one to reach from them too! No customer service at all. Pretty poor for Google and the reputation that they have.

I am dissapointed

I have been trying to open my gmail internet account this morning to no avail. a messagr of "redirectig" has been appearing and a customer error message to google appears on the screen. Please let me know what's going on.

Thanks

Samir

I have not been able to receive any e-mail on my gmail or send any e-mails on gmail. What shall I do?

I am having connectivity problems when all other web sits are fine please can someone assist me.

When I try to open gmail, it directs me to google. I use Internet Ex. But I also tried Safari, and that will not work either. What do I do? I need my gmail! =*(

tihs gmail is to long it should be scorpioman@gmail

I have run my virus protector, and everything that I could think of to open my gmail account, however, I keep getting "cannot redirect message". what else should I do.

I am becoming thoroughly disgusted that I can not use my gmail account. It worked fine only a few weeks ago, but now it's not working. Help