On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:39:14AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at 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. Oh, you mean if I use the web interface? Not relevant for me. I mean, that if I send an email to this list, in a little while, it will show up in my local mailbox for this mailing list. I almost never use the web interface. > > > 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? I don't use a phone for email. I think I'm too old--seriously, my eyes need a larger screen. Also, the thought of typing an email on a phone is too much for me. I'm an old guy, who, though I have a smart phone, finds that typing on it is too much of a pain to answer an email properly. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6