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@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.