Gmail, Why I am leaving it?

Gmail, Why I am leaving it?

In our day to day life we are getting habitual of emails, a major way of communication. Most of the people are using free email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos, Aol etc..

I think so its near about one and half year back when I heard about Gmail with huge inbox size of 2 GB. Instantly I searched one of my friend and got an invitation for opening a Gmail account. I was very happy at that time. But soon after 7-8 months problems started raising their heads.

So here are the problems:-

1. Gmail is offering more than 2GB of Inbox size but its not for my mails...I think so it's for SPAM. I use to receive 100 to 200 spams per day....and it's quite hectic to find my original mails in INBOX.

2. Labels a cool way to organize mails. Even I can archive old mails and after applying labels they look like folders. But what if I want to download emails on a Desktop client with POP access (Any client). Unfortunately all mails including sentmails get downloaded in Inbox and there is no sign of archived mails. So problem is what gmail is showing on its web interface can't be copied to Desktop mail client.

3. Google adds. Ya I know that they are text adds JavaScript generated adds) but I don't want them so I disabled JavaScript. Shocking!! Gmail advanced interface gone. I came in the basic HTML View. I don't think so any body reading this want to use Gmail in basic view.

4. I don't know which virus scanner software gmail is using but it always refuses to send executable files. What's more even somebody can't send you an executable file.

5. I use to do mail people to whom I will never contact again in future but what Gmail do is remember all email addresses even If I don't want to save them. It never asks me "Do you want to save?". So till now there are more than 2000 email contacts in my address book and I don't know who is known who is not.

I am not an anti Google guy as I am using it's other services like notepad, bookmarks, analytics, webmaster tools etc. and they are cool.

What I want to say that there are several small players in the field who provides good services...... I know there are too many Google guys who say that they don't find any trouble in using it. But I want to get answer of 1, 2 and 4th point mainly listed above from those guys.

Now I have switched over to other email service quite better than Gmail. Atleast I have control on all things.