[CentOS] mail tools preferences?

[Rob Kampen]

On 01/19/2014 02:00 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 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>
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>>>> 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.
I now have an Android phone after an iPhone.
I have always struggled with the Apple lock-in infrastructure - works 
real well if you're using Apple's OS on the PC.
However, I found it worked well for my emails and contact list and 
calendar - I found tools that worked with my CentOS server and allowed 
me to mirror my contact list and appointments from the iPhone to/from my 
CentOS workstation and Thunderbird - truly useful and almost totally 
seamless.

Along comes my big new Android phone - not too many problems converting 
- imported all my contacts just fine, but somewhere along the way, not 
sure when or how, maybe a result of the continual application updates, 
my contact list no longer feels like mine.

When I add new contacts or try to edit old ones - I only have google 
contacts available - the "people" app and the funambol app have just 
faded into the background.

I now have no idea how I can access "all" my contacts and export them 
should I want to shift. Also, my integration with Thunderbird is gone - 
the app I used is no longer supported for later versions of Thunderbird.

Question for the list:
What level of integration do you have for your contact list?
I need something that makes my workstation and laptop (both CentOS 6.5) 
using Thunderbird and IMAP mail servers (mostly CentOS postfix/dovecot + 
some gmail) and android phone share all contact info ......

Let's not get started on calendars.
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> 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.
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> 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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