I'd also like to know what Gmail is really about. i.e. how Google is planning on benefiting from it.
Can it support the most recent versions of pop or imap?
* Search, don't sort.
All mail clients that I know allow searching. Many allow searching in groups of folders or in a hierarchy of folders.
Sorting is too useful to be left out, especialy for browsing search results.
* Don't throw anything away.
For me, spam and anything with an MS attachment are gone. Extra tools like Procmail can automatically strip attachments, or run them through a converter, or auto-reply to the fool who sent it, or cull messages older than a certain date or when a certain number of messages is exceeded.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
If you're not chucking spam or messages with attachments, then 1GB will quickly seem small. Non-text mail attachments are significanly larger than the final binary file because it must be encoded in base 64.
* Keep it all in context.
This is called sorting by thread and supported by most e-mail clients.
* No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
The weasel word here is *untargeted* banners. It sounds like you'll get banners though. The question is how do they choose the profile? Rummage through your mail archive for key words and phrases?
Mail clients normally don't have pop ups. Most web browsers block them.
-Lars
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