Google GMail’s one drawback I’ve noticed so far is that you are only allowed 20 filters.
This may sound like a lot, but I’m on 20+ mailing lists. Mainly, I like to read what’s going on in the industry.
This is the reason I left Yahoo mail at 15 filters, so I’m a little disappointed in Google here.
I may actually revert back to my ISP email and use Squirrel Mail, depending on how it’s functionality is.
Yahoo’s spam filter was REALLY bad too, and no white/black list functionality. I had to burn a filter on “lottery” to weed out the spam getting through.
update: it’s been pointed out by several people to me that they have beyond the “20 filter limit” mentioned on their web site. This is great!
Roman Dultsin
November 29, 2005 at 7:43 am
I have to disagree with your findings. I don’t know of any limit on number of filters in GMail. I have 97 filters already set up and all of them are working properly.
chovy
November 29, 2005 at 10:57 am
you know, actually I hadn’t hit the 20 limit yet, I just read it off their web site:
anyone
January 15, 2010 at 5:53 pm
You can create an unlimited number of filters, but only 20 filters can forward to other addresses. Combining filters like this is a great way to maximize your filtered forwarding.
ref:http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6579&topic=1540