Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by mike-cardwell » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u wrote: post #75

kroltan wrote: post #31

Get Thunderbird (or any other standalone email app). Extremely traditional UI, and better responsiveness due to no frill JS and no tracking. Bonus, even read your emails offline! Innovation!

Unless you work for a company that disables POP/IMAP, for allegedly security reasons.

On Debian, you can just go to "Online Accounts" and add a Google Account, then your Google Mail will appear in Evolution Mail. Not sure what protocol is behind it, but it works when IMAP doesn't. Bonus: Evolution Mail comes with PGP support built in.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by romwell » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 10:54 PM UTC

nasredin wrote: post #252

romwell wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opera 12 for me solely for the mail client. (They did spin off Opera Mail as a separate app, but I see no point in it, since it's just Opera 12 with the browser part disabled).

I recommend "The Bat!". It's a bit clunky, but it's the best for serious people.

I've been using TheBat! around 2000-2003, back in dial-up days. It wasn't free back then (Opera wasn't either), and isn't free now.

It was/is great, but I didn't find a compelling reason for myself to shell some bucks over their way vs. using Opera Mail or Thunderbird. What are the killer features for you?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by bootlooped » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 12:13 AM UTC

phnk wrote: post #157

bootlooped wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they take away the ability to use the old UI? I still have a menu item under settings that says "Go back to classic Gmail"

That menu item will vanish soon. Several users have reported it elsewhere in this thread (it has vanished for me too).

It is now gone for me too.