As you may remember, I recently changed my email address. There were a few reasons. First, I wanted to take some precautions against online identity theft. Secondly, I got a bit hacked off at Yahoo for putting some legitimate emails in my spam folder. I actually paid $12 a year for Yahoo's premium service, which made it ad free and provided some other benefits.
I decided to give gmail a try. At first, things seemed pretty nice. I set up multiple accounts as to shield the email accounts that I used for sensitive things such as banking from public consumption. The one annoying part was that I had to log out of my email to use my blog. Kind of a pain, but manageable I guess.
Well, today the pain grew very much larger, covering pretty much my whole ass. Today, gmail started designating all my emails as spam, and as such immediately rejects them. It started when I tried to send an email to nine people. Soon after, even my test emails to myself were rejected.
The technical support is virtually non-existent. You can fill out a form, and perhaps google will do something about it in a week or two. They won't let you know that they did anything, but they assure you they'll read the email. They won't respond to it, but they'll read it. Sure will.
I'm pretty frustrated by this. Its not like email is a life or death thing with me, but the service is unusable. I have no desire to start another gmail account and encounter the same thing in another month or two. Perhaps I'll go back to Yahoo. If I do, I'll probably start a new account to avoid all the spam and to help make it more secure.