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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6