Read a rant today about Yahoo! Mail. Since Yahoo is a former employer of mine I took a keener interest in the rant than I normally would (nota bene: I did not work on the e-mail product). If this rant is representative of a lot of folks experience then it would be pretty bad for Yahoo!.

It's interesting that I read this today since my current employer uses the GMail Enterprise service. I don't know what other people's experience with this service is, but apparently ours is not all that great (ironically we had a really good experience with the free version of GMail).

This is all to show why I don't use a web-based e-mail service. I maintain my own server running postfix, maildrop and a number of other programs. I use mutt to read my e-mail. In the end I've simply never been able to adapt to a GUI-based e-mail interface. There was a time where, at least once a year, I would attempt to use the Evolution mail program (think of it as Outlook for Linux machines) and it never took. I'd use it for a week and then go back to my old setup. Various attempts at using GMail or Yahoo! Mail have been just as fruitless.