[CentOS] mail tools preferences?

[Scott Robbins]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:10:34PM +1300, Rob Kampen wrote:
> On 01/18/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >>We don't have enough arguments here.... <g>


> >>
> >>I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend
> >>evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three
> >>years with t-bird. 


> >Gmail's web interface is very low-maintenance...
> Have to take exception to this comment - the interface changes at
> the whim of google and I have to relearn - recently the changes have
> come with increasing frequency and major impact on how they operate
> - a quick search shows many folk are unhappy with the direction they
> are headed.

Not to mention the privacy concerns--I remember when I first got a smart
phone, used my main gmail account for it, and suddenly saw that I had
contacts for anyone that I'd ever sent mail to in my contacts list.  

Then, the way they will suddenly tie it into something else they're
pushing, such as google +, and suddenly, you have to choose to opt out of
something else.  

I also dislike it for mailing lists (hence I use my ISP account here),
because they decided that it was a feature to avoid cluttering your mailbox
to not show you a message you'd sent to the list.  You can find it in your
sent directory, but it wont' appear in your inbox. (Unless that's
changed--I remember checking again about a year ago, and it was still that
way.)

Gmail is useful for many things--their spam filtering is excellent, for
example, but I wouldn't want it to be my only email.  Even for the things I
use it for, I use it as a pop server, download my mail, filter with
mailfilter and view with mutt.



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Scott Robbins
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