On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata <hawarden at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com