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Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by gtt »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #31
stevenjohns wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can definitely recommend Mailspring[0]. It has occasional quirks, but very stable. [0] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

But this requires a Mailspring account right? At least it did when I tried it a while back.

Account is not a problem and they don't store your mail in the cloud (or any information without your consent).

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by yuy910616 »

mapcars wrote: post #36
close04 wrote: post #33

Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected. The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there a…

>or disc, for the flatearthers out there I mean, seriously? :)

i thought it was on an elephant's back on turtle's back?

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by NateEag »

gtt wrote: post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

mbsync/notmuch/Emacs.

I'm the happiest I've ever been with email using that combination.

I've explained the basics of my setup before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17882707

(Granted, I'm a heavy Emacs user, so I'm predisposed to like writing emails in Emacs.)

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by nabla9 »

Felz wrote: post #6

As someone working on a mail service of my own, this is heartening to see. Even Google messes up sometimes.

Gmail has had almost four nines availability at least in some years and no scheduled downtime. That's still a hour of downtime per year.

Generally the availability of web services for individual users seems to be between 99.5 - 99.9 depending on the service.

Too high availability target wastes resources and network failures and third parties limit what actual effective availability can be.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by cyphar »

dsr_ wrote: post #26
gtt wrote: post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

mutt. The traditional whine: "But everybody uses HTML!" The solution: in .mailcap: text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html In .muttrc: auto_view text/html application/x-gunzip text/calendar alternative_order text/plain text text/html application/postscript mutt can be used as a pure IMAP client or to read local mail delivered to mboxes or maildirs. If you are the sort of person who builds up 250…

I also switched to mutt a few years ago, as part of a switch away from gmail (which I no longer use). HTML email is actually a much smaller problem than I initially expected (and in the rare cases it's a problem you can always pipe it to lynx).

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by rbobby »

yuy910616 wrote: post #42
mapcars wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>or disc, for the flatearthers out there I mean, seriously? :)

i thought it was on an elephant's back on turtle's back?

Four: https://goo.gl/images/BfXfC7

Cite: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/World_Elephant

:)

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by tethys »

gtt wrote: post #40
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been happily using Thunderbird for 10+ years. Supports Windows, Mac, and Linux natively. https://www.thunderbird.net

In my experience it crashes a few times a week and have abandoned feel. Is there any modern fork?

Mozilla is starting to throw resources at Thunderbird again, so it will hopefully get better this year. https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Post by mxuribe »

gtt wrote: post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

I've been using thunderbird for several years...and frankly its not bad. I want to love and support it more, but it does have a few - i think minor - issues. Nevertheless, my opinion is that it is good enough, and the client best suited for general users. I'll be honest though, lately i've been teetering on the brink of trying out cool kids type of clients like mutt/neomutt, etc. But haven't yet, due to too many other projects. And, then....i read a recent blog post about some decent-sounding 2019 plans for thunderbird; see https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-... So, i'm actually inspired to stick around with thunderbird, and see how/whether it improves. Naturally, the best approach is for you to try things out on your own, and judge for yourself.
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