Re: How to reply in the mailing lists
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:06:38 -0400
"Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400
> > "Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the
> > > google search algorithm over my mailbox, google talk in the sidebar
> > > (not used often, but very handy on occasion), and no reliance on a
> > > third-party SMTP server to send mail (unless gmail now provides SMTP).
> > The Google search is undeniably valuable, and I occasionally use the
> > web interface for that purpose, but for regular use, my preference is
> > for the practical benefits of control and flexibility that *nix mail
> > clients offer. In addition, I have an ideological preference for free
> > software and the aforementioned control. In any event, my comment to
> > which you are responding was in response to raju's suggestion to use
> > knode. BTW, Gmail does provide SMTP.
>
> I may have seen the SMTP support, but that certainly wasn't the case
> at one point. When they provide IMAP access, I'll consider moving
> some of my gmail use back to other clients. POP's a bit of a pain
> when you access the account from multiple machines. I also noticed
Definitely.
> that POP doesn't fetch your spam, which is nice, but spam counts
> against your quota, and contrary to their claims it doesn't seem to
> get cleared out after 30 days. I had one account that built up to
Mine gets removed. My spam total remains steady at about 1600 messages.
I never delete them; I just check them quickly for non-spam, and then
mark them all read.
> something like 30% usage while I was accessing it via POP. Cleaning
> out the spam brought me down to under 1%.
> Michael A. Marsh
Celejar
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