On 2014/11/14 11:32, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? Marking it as read removes it from my gmail inbox for the times when I ~do~ need to read email using the gmail interface. >> 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). I could do that I suppose, but I haven't and probably wouldn't have the time necessary to separate out the emails between the two accounts. I already have 6+ email accounts that I have to monitor so I'd rather not fork off another if I can help it. >> 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. It's not the time, just the byte volume. I get ~15GB of space for free per account, I think. >> 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. The vast majority of my email unfortunately is not publicly archived, so I don't have that option.