Get Ready For Big Gmail Changes

I just wish that they would provide a workable read receipt option.

Chrome has been causing Win 10 to lock up. I have tried uninstalling using Revo Uninstaller, rebooting and reinstalling Chrome. Same problem occurs. According to Microsoft they a aware of this problem

Frank: NO ONE can provide a workable read receipt option.
The problem is that any option depends on the receiving system to be willing and (if it is) the recipient to be willing.

Gmail interface? I don't care.
I use Thunderbird on my desktop. Works fine. I am a happy anachronism.
(I wish gmail would not keep my "sent" messages. None of their damn business.)

The early screenshots don't show folder names on the email lines. That's a problem! I hope we can still organize with folders and I want to see them on my email screens, too!

I wonder if recipients are made aware that the email you send them has an expiration date or time.

IMHO; if Google dropped out of the face of the www world, I'd be a happier camper!
All of the current concerns with Facebook’s privacy/security/monopoly ditty is like a gnat (Facebook) on an elephant's (Google's) rump.
Heroin, Alcohol, Cocaine, Barbiturates and Nicotine combined are NOT as insidious nor addictive as that elephant. We can also add Love and PeanutButter to this list and the combination still cannot compete.
Lifewire.com estimates that there will be 3.8Billion email users by end of 2018. If 1.2Billion of these email users are dependent on gMail, then the Bacon# data collected by Alphabet/Google has got to be ginormous.
*No, I don't have an Android phone!
*No, I don't use Google search engine!
*No, I don't use a gMail account!
*Yes, but this site does!
I realize that there is absolutely nothing that I can do to avoid the Venturi effect and get sucked into this addictive monopoly.
Even realizing that I have to be perceived as the rare, and paranoid conspiracy theorist out there; in the eyes of Alphabet/Google disciples.
[The Borg collective was not wrong, after all.]

Hello Bob
I was wondering if, in this update, Google might have listened to the millions of complaints out there on the net about their spam filters. In case you have not heard, Google have for years been arbitrarily selecting valid email and shoving them into the spam box - these from folk who have been sending you emails for ever and a day.
If, like me, you use an independent email client, you do not see these emails flagged, as the spam items do not make it to your client. To be safe, you have to go into your on-line gmail to check your spam box because after a month Google decide they will delete them. Users have no options in this. Many, many people have lost business or missed meetings because good emails were designated spam by Google.
There is no effective spam filter that you can set up within gmail to block unwanted email - yes, you can set filters but the darn emails come through regardless.
Anyone else lost important emails lately through glitchmail?

I can't say any more than I agree with RandiO one hundred percent. Thank you.

G(litch)mail... gotta love it 'misterfish' :)

You Sure Hit The Bullseye For My Biggest Issue
with the nerds at gmail (small g by design) to
whom I've sent emails to fix this but -- zero.

Long past time for them to go live in the real
world where the rest of the people have to see
real results. I spend far too much time being
the watchdog of their damn spam and trash fake
misdirections of ignored filters etc.. pushing
valid emails of years standing into spam etc..
exacto the very things you so clearly describe
and more.. of this care less attitude on their
part of the online community they 'serve'(?).

Appreciate your comments way above the others.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Totally agree with ffonz, misterfish and randiO. Gmail, FB, Twit, along with Amazon have become too big to do wrong conglomerates. Amazon and Walmart are putting the small biz guy out of biz and the others are just concerned about gathering our info. and sharing with "big brother" in Government's effort to enact their 2030 plans of complete control over society ( youtube "Lynette Zang" and she'll spell it out for ya' much better than I ever could ). It's a shame and sad that those of us who helped ( unknowingly ) make these conglomerates into the data-collection criminals are only recently learning the truth. What we need to do is STOP using these monsters and find alternate ways to communicate...such as ( you might remember ) the TELEPHONE. Even though nothing can be 100% effective in keeping our privacy private, I feel more comfortable using my land-line and nothing more.... No cell phone for me but am too reliable upon Alphabet/Google at this point although it would be a huge relief to not think about checking emails everyday. I do believe that technology was first intended to improve society however, in the manner it's being used by data-driven companies can never be a "good thing." Bob, sorry 'bout any typos...a google hit-man had paid me a visit because I refused to use chrome. He smashed my knuckles but i didn't give in. I looked him in the eye and told him, "I'm 82 and married 50 years, 37 not them w/out sex. Nobody can inflict worse pain on me than that-:)

lookOut does the same thing. So far, it's not too much of a burden to check the junk mail. At least there is a Not Junk tab to move it to Inbox.

So yet another move towards the "Fifty shades of grey" graphics. Many web-sites are becoming difficult to read now with text, icons and buttons in various shades of the grey-scale (rarely black). Fine for mobile users who want to conserve bandwidth, but not so good for users with sight defects. And it looks so bland, soulless and boring.
I followed your link to the screen-shots, each one labelled "As you can see"... and I couldn't see them without upping contrast!
I personally hope they keep themes and colour.

I don't use gmail much so I will admit up front that I don't know much about it but I have never figured out how to select a mass amount of emails and delete them. One at a time doesn't work for me so I don't use gmail.

I'm with Dave. I hate the trend of grey text. (Has nothing to do with gmail - just my rant!)

I've used Gmail for years and love it. The ability to delete messages you send after a certain period is an excellent idea that I will adopt. I'll wait and see about the rest and the interface.

Imagine of Google decided to charge all its users $10 annually for their product, how much they would earn. I would gladly pay as it's well worth it.

Jay R; Being locked out by lookOut this week until I was forced to read their terms and conditions, caused me to realize they browse, save and sell all your email and Onedrive data. Where along with Gdrive I save important info. Which then made me consider abandoning lookOut. After unknowingly I'd moved my important emails from Gmail.
But lookOut makes it much easier to flag and block unwanted emails. Gmails makes it too hard to block unwanted spam.
Using the old Gvoice interface is confusing enough and it was never possible to get all phones working and configured. Then Gvoice shoved a new interface down our throats. Updates are ALWAYS better! Not. My 7 cents. (gov't inflation.)

Following up with Dave and "Fifty shades of grey", has anyone notice websites using white areas contrasting with very very very very light pastel pink areas, which are almost white? I joke about 'contrasting' since you can hardly tell the difference.
And boxes for info that have an outline in very very light grey or similar color that is at least 1/10,000th inch wide - again hardly visible - you cannot tell where the @#$% box is. The box surrounding this comment section on Bob's site is a light blue, BUT IT IS VISIBLE. Thank you Bob.

Light gray text is difficult or impossible= for persons with low vision to read. Doesn't gmail have to supply accommodation for such individuals or comply with accessibility standards?

Just re-read your comments. Recently, in a moment of brain absentia, I accidentally clicked one of the options for style. When next retrieving an email I was totally bewildered as my long-time folder system seemed to have been destroyed. I had no idea what was actioned or even current. Eventually I managed to reinstate the current version and then spent days resorting my emails. Personally I plan on moving to another email system asm soon as I can.