[CentOS] Not To James B. Byrne

[Les Mikesell]

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