On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata hawarden@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote:
If you auto-mark as read, how do you ever know when it really is read?
I don't use the gmail interface for day-to-day email processing, for precisely that reason. It is why I resort to TB.
I don't get it. Why auto-mark read in the first place?
When I'm at work I read all email with a work-centric focus.
I have a completely separate work account. With its own restrictions and retention policies. It hasn't always been that way but it seems easier now (someone else manages that server).
Which is handy when my email goes back 15+ years and google won't let me keep it all there without paying for it which I'd rather not do.
I have 100+GB of google-space without paying extra, I think partly as a side effect of the android phone I use. And I don't think there is any time-related restriction.
For the older email, those TB clients are the only copies I have. Even though I have backups, I still do this because recovery has been very quick this way (just replace the dead profile with the good one).
And of course, when the apocalypse comes and gmail goes away, I'm all prepared! [/joke]
I used to pull copies to my own server with fetchmail, and later imap-synced with thunderbird (sometimes including the All Mail folder). But the computers that used to do that have all died of old age so I gave up on being more reliable than google. Besides, with the work stuff in a separate account it is almost exclusively list mail that could be found in public archives anyway.