On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote: > > You may be onto something, because I *am* using IMAP (TB's default during > account setup) instead of POP3. > > I'll be looking around in gmail next to see if there's some way to pre-sort > mail from centos.org (as Miranda implied) before whatever mail app I'm using > at the time fetches it. I've used an assortment of methods over the years including using fetchmail to drop in my own imap server host before gmail had imap itself. But, I've given up on thinking I can do it better than google does. > I have never seen an online email interface I liked, so I don't spend much > time in gmail's. I've grown to like gmail's web interface - or at least tolerate the parts I don't like to get the part I do - which is mostly the raw search capability that I use in favor of trying to categorize anything, plus the fact that it is always in perfect sync with my android phone where I read a lot but rarely type long replies. Try going into configuration settings to tune it more to your liking. You may want some of the 'labs' options. In particular I don't think I would like it without the auto-advance after archiving/deleting (that is, go to the next message instead of redrawing the index list). > One of the things that drove me to linux (and I liked rpm/yum better than > dpkg/apt) was microsoft disabling Windows Mail in Win7 to force people to > use their online 'Live' email. Given that you can use thunderbird on windows, that doesn't make much sense, but linux isn't a bad desktop these days. The main thing that keeps me from using an email 'application' for personal email is that I use an assortment of different machines during the day and don't want to be tied to one or deal with the differences in the way the apps would work across windows/linux/mac versions even if I went to the trouble to install it and configure imap sync everywhere. Plus, I really don't want to sync the huge 'all mail' archived folder but I want searches to go there. And, if you haven't used gmail/yahoo/hotmail (now outlook.com) for a while you might be surprised at how well the new web interfaces work and how much you can customize them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com