On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
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.
If I've sent something anywhere on the internet, I consider it public. Google or not.
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.)
If you can't remember what you've sent, you can type From: me in the search box at the top and it will show what you've sent and also the threads where you have participated. That's a feature I use regularly because you can easily note unread topics because they are in a bold font.
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.
Using pop won't track read/unread accurately. If you are going to do it that way, why not use imap? Or do you point your phone at your own server?