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Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail |
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> as your personal e-mail? |
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For me it is a couple of things - one is that I prefer to have email |
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addresses that I can keep that are not client-dependent. Sure, right |
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now gmail allows POP3 access, but that could change some day. Plus, |
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some day if gmail's spam filters become lousy I don't need to |
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redistribute new email addresses to everybody I know. |
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As far as their saving messages go - I've got an IMAP store with just |
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about every email I've ever sent (well, at least since I started |
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understanding what I was doing and had PPP/SLIP access to the net). |
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Gmail might offer the same right now, but down the road if they have a |
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glitch and lose your email you won't have much recourse (you get what |
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you pay for). |
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I just keep all my mail in an IMAP store, and I can try any mail client |
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I want anytime I want. I can use thunderbird over vnc over ssh |
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remotely, or if that lags too much I can just use squirrelmail or |
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something like that. I could even open up my IMAP server to the world |
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and use gmail to read my IMAP mail I suppose (I assume gmail handles |
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IMAP on other servers). After all the sylpheed-claws talk a few days |
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ago I emerged it, tried it out, and now I'm back on thunderbird after |
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tweaking it. The nice thing about open standards is that you aren't |
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married to anything - even if it is something good at the moment. |
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