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I just don't check e-mail more than once per a couple of days, same as my physical mail box. Why would anybody need any additional tool for this?
Ahem, I read my mails from my maildir, sync-ed with mbsync or muchsync depending on what systems I'm using... So, if I want to read my mails at ANY interval of time I simply change my cronjob and imap-idle wrapper script to trigger a sync or I may only change my dunst hook to tweak notification. No need to offload to ANOTHER third party my messages. Sorry, pollice verso.
It's funny to me that you give such a strong opinion against this, but then end with a phrase of which could go either way.
How this phrase can go "either way"?
Ps English is not my motherlanguage so I may made many mistake than maybe sound strange for other readers, if that's the case please point it out, it's a valuable lesson for me.
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It's funny to me that you give such a strong opinion against this, but then end with a phrase of which could go either way.
? Pollice verso is a latin expression for disapprove, used normally by Roman's emperor to refuse right to live of a gladiator... How this phrase can go "either way"? Ps English is not my motherlanguage so I may made many mistake than maybe sound strange for other readers, if that's the case please point it out, it's a valuable lesson for me.
Source: I did a short paper once on the painting by Gérôme of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollice_Verso_(G%C3%A9r%C3%B4m...
I just don't check e-mail more than once per a couple of days, same as my physical mail box. Why would anybody need any additional tool for this?
I'm going to assume you just don't get a lot of emails? For many people it is the primary form of communication across a company.
I will say, adios.ai has really nailed the marketing message. The website does a great job explaining a modestly complex idea. I have struggled with the message and marketing. Mostly, my users are people who knew they wanted this solution and went looking for me. I think adios.ai will do a better job of convincing people who didn't realize this is what they wanted.
Kudos!
If anybody wants to do this to their own GMail account without putting trust in a third party, this is pretty easy to do with the little-known Google Apps Script. You can write JavaScript that will run on Google's servers and do whatever you want to your account. (I use this to archive various automated emails if I haven't bothered to look at them, to keep them from cluttering my inbox after they're obsolete.) Here's…
Running your own server or use a more privacy catered provider with Thunderbird or whatever client isn't so hard.
If anybody wants to do this to their own GMail account without putting trust in a third party, this is pretty easy to do with the little-known Google Apps Script. You can write JavaScript that will run on Google's servers and do whatever you want to your account. (I use this to archive various automated emails if I haven't bothered to look at them, to keep them from cluttering my inbox after they're obsolete.) Here's…
Off topic but I wonder why people, especially usually privacy sensitive HN readers use Gmail and turn themselves into Google's better product with nothing to gain? Running your own server or use a more privacy catered provider with Thunderbird or whatever client isn't so hard.
I could self host my own email server, cloud storage and backup solution, calendar software, facebook-alternative node, blog.
Or I could use gmail, GDrive, google calendar, facebook and wordpress.
Yes, I can do everything myself, but now I'm spending my time maintaining each of those different self hosted solutions.
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Off topic but I wonder why people, especially usually privacy sensitive HN readers use Gmail and turn themselves into Google's better product with nothing to gain? Running your own server or use a more privacy catered provider with Thunderbird or whatever client isn't so hard.
Nothing to gain? How about time? That's the common benefit of every *AAS product, both free and paid. I could self host my own email server, cloud storage and backup solution, calendar software, facebook-alternative node, blog. Or I could use gmail, GDrive, google calendar, facebook and wordpress. Yes, I can do everything myself, but now I'm spending my time maintaining each of those different self hosted solutions.
Besides, there are providers like Proton if you can't afford to set one up.