How to cope with the Gmail redesign

Post by copper » Tue, May 01, 2012, 3:34 PM UTC

rachelbythebay wrote: post #96

copper wrote: post #85

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fastmail's non-free service, maybe? I got it a very long time ago, mainly for the .in email address. It's been no-frills, fast, and (mostly) reliable. I'm still not sure I'd recommend it to a gmail user, but its been a good email account to have.

Careful - don't rely on fastmail for XMPP. I switched to them based on them having that, since I used it a lot with Gmail. Then I found out that fastmail is running some super wobbly XMPP server which kicks you off any time you really get going really quickly in a conversation. I've opened multiple tickets, and all they can say is "sorry" and "we know about it" and "we're working on it", but actual fixes still haven'…

Late reply, sorry. I never even knew they had the option of an XMPP server. For what it's worth, I find the mail experience to be both reasonable, and pretty much fat-free, which I guess is all I really need.

Post by ditojim » Fri, May 04, 2012, 2:53 PM UTC

tjoff wrote: post #170

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if you are limited by search in gmail, you are doing it wrong. you are saying gmail is inferior to thunderbird for search? over google? c'mon. you also take issue with apps running in the browser, which is counter-culture. you are refusing to accept that there are specific advantages to the additional functionality we have gained in the browser, while claiming your machine is more secure than Google's data centers. s…

Read in what context I said that gmail search is inferior to thunderbird for search. But yes, how do you, without googling it up, search for a message in gmail from address x, sometime in the year of 2010, where the subject began with y and the content contained z. Counter-culture? Few would argue that native apps doesn't have advantages over browser apps. The best you could say about a browser app is that it is "goo…

-That search can be performed a couple ways, but the easiest would be via the search dropdown in gmail: http://i45.tinypic.com/e0lbnd.png

-No. You are not living in reality. Browser is the future. Your resistance is futile.

-Mine is always the first tab. It is also my home page. You are making really bad excuses why this doesn't work for you.

-No. It has security dis-advantages since your data is stored on your device, which doesn't have the same security layers as Google's data centers.

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