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Goodbye Gmail

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Re: Goodbye Gmail

#101

I've noticed maps is considerably slower and less responsive. Google has become corporatized so I'm keeping my expectations in check.

GMail is pretty good. But the new maps is atrocious on any browser except Chrome (surprise surprise). The old version is much faster on all browsers. Same for the Android app, which also destroys my phone battery now too.

Re: Goodbye Gmail

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post #95

I'm considering switching from Gmail for similar reasons - multi-second delays when switching to a label are kinda unacceptable. But this is 2014, and if I'm going to switch, it needs to be to a desktop application so that I can have some vague semblance of security - at least supporting PGP mail and accepting messages which happen to be delivered securely with STARTTLS without the possibility of eavesdropping on my…

If not Mail.app, what about notmuch with one of the supported clients ;).

I have tried Mail.app (with Gmail IMAP for now); it's quite nice, but has some issues such as poor expressiveness in search.

notmuch looks interesting. I do use vim heavily, but I'm not sure I want to read all my mail in fixed-width... wonder if the web client is any good.

Re: Goodbye Gmail

#103
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotless. I've gotten maybe one false negative (i.e., the spam hit my inbox) and no false positives.

I have a very different experience. I've had my fastmail account for ~5 years and get 20 new pieces of spam in my inbox daily, while on my gmail account, that I've used for ~10 years, I only get 1 spam per month on average. Fastmail's spam filtering is atrocious in my experience.

A few months ago I had to drop my spam threshold from 5 to something like 2.5 -- my spam issues cleared up immediately.

Re: Goodbye Gmail

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post #77
post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>or if pretty much everyone who makes should-statements on the Internet is recommending genocide No, you are seeing a reflection of what other people are searching too. It's a mirror into peoples private naughty thoughts. Stuff they wouldn't say themselves, yet they search for to see if there are arguments supporting the thought.

I've always wondered - are Google's autocomplete choices based on what people are searching for, or are they based on frequently-found phrases in website content?

>are Google's autocomplete choices based on what people are searching for

Yes. Much more useful that way. They want to auto-suggest what is the most likely search, not what is the most likely content.

Re: Goodbye Gmail

#105
post #41

Spam filtering in Gmail is a killer feature, now as much as when it first appeared. These rants always skip that detail, the primary reason I stick with gmail.

You can always forward your mail through GMail. Publicly, your address is r0s@gmail.com, but that account forwards to another address. Boom, spam filtering. You can even give out your "private" address to trusted parties, and skip the middleman.

I wish my address was r0s@gmail.com -_-
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