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Post by themuskgpt2025 »

gsinclair wrote: post #418
andrewflnr wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the handy things that Fastmail (among other providers) lets you do is set up a wildcard email address, so literallyanything@mydomain goes to a specific folder. Any time I want to sign up for some service I don't trust, I'll give them a specific email address. Long-standing practice, blah blah. Also, as my sibling said, "mash that unsubscribe button". Less practically, it is pretty obnoxious for you to act supe…

I think seeing superiority or obnoxiousness in the comment you replied to was a pretty large reading error on your part. The tone was sympathetic to people whose inboxes receive more than they can handle. The last sentence of your comment sounds quite condescending.

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Post by ddxv »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #110
soperj wrote: post #96

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what do you use as your client?

I'm not the poster you're replying to, but i did the same thing and use Purelymail (and their web interface, which i think is open-source) it's a very cheap no-nonsense service, i recommend it

I just signed up given the low price, got it setup with K-9 POP on my phone. Gotta say that is a very simple and easy to follow setup. Compared with something like Zoho where I get lost everytime I need to navigate around.

I'm really liking this, thanks for the recommendation.

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Post by ddxv »

ddxv wrote: post #381

I've been on the very cheap Zoho mail for awhile and it's done everything I want it to do including meetings.

Just to say, Zoho is great as it has meetings / calendar etc which I need for things. I also just, today, tried purelymail and was also pretty awesome. $10 a year, I think multiple domains and users. Really nice.

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Post by NagatoYuzuru »

why_at wrote: post #151

I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of native speakers using this is so strange to me. How does this help you? If you can write to the LLM telling it what kind of email to write, you might as well just write the email.

As a non native English speaker, letting an LLM translate my emails is actually a sweet trap that’s all too easy to fall into. But Gemini in Gmail DOESN’T SUPPORT non English input. What’s the point of this thing?

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Post by mvdtnz »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #258
Our_Benefactors wrote: post #26

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Given that Windows still doesn't even support multiple monitors in any meaningful way, I'm not sure what you're complaining about.

I'm no Windows defender but this is nonsense. Windows has BY FAR the best multi monitor support of any of the major OS's, including any variant of Linux.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

BTBurke wrote: post #419
Slow_Hand wrote: post #376

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If I configure my rules today and then tomorrow I sign up for a new site do I have to amend my rules to also filter the new site? Because that's too much manual management. It's not a lot for a single site, yes, but x10 new sites a month it is too much. It's death by 1,000 cuts. I don't ever have to do it with Gmail, and that is a tremendous amount of time saved. It is a lifesaver.

If the email body contains the word unsubscribe, send it to the promotional folder. One rule to rule them all.

And then my banking updates go into promotions. Along with notifications I set up on streaming sites, and newsletters, and patreon posts. It's not that simple.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

goodmythical wrote: post #397
why_at wrote: post #151

I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of native speakers using this is so strange to me. How does this help you? If you can write to the LLM telling it what kind of email to write, you might as well just write the email.

I think you might be suffering from a little bit of bias concerning your own comfort with written english with regard to the general population's comfort with written english. I had a high school teacher (algebra II), my favorite coincidentally, who was actually functionally illiterate. He knew some words, and had a solid understanding of the alphabet, but ask him to parse a sentence or god forbid an essay, and he wa…

What does this have to do with emails. The comment you replied to didn't say to purge all LLMs so I see basically no connection.

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Post by wyclif »

glerk wrote: post #297
scrollop wrote: post #120

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Out of interest - do you trust google reading all your emails? What do you think about privacy?

I used to care, but I don't anymore. They can read my emails, my code, track what websites I visit and what music I listen to, be my guest. I'd let them read my thoughts directly if we can build technology to do that lol. I realized that ultimately, these corporations are too stupid to do anything of value with all that data, so I don't feel threatened.

The danger isn't that they'll do anything of value; the danger is that they'll do something stupid with your data.

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Post by ipaddr »

Slow_Hand wrote: post #361
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #327

Looking for your alternative? Let me give you some (non financially motivated) praise for Fastmail. It has everything Gmail has - even app passwords, hide my email, and ios integration. The only criticism is the calendar doesn’t autocomplete addresses so that’s a bit more typing than I would like. But everything you do in Fastmail is instant . They live up to the name! Once you try it and go back, you’ll be shocked -…

Does it automatically filter my email into tabs for primary, promotions, social, and updates? Cause that is the single most useful feature offered by Gmail that I have yet to find elsewhere. I'm not talking about manually tagging, setting up, and filtering all incoming email before my inbox can self-organize. I mean automatically. Only show me the true primary items in my inbox from the jump. Everything else can wait…

Interesting to see people have such strong faith in Google's ability to filter. My experience is email from addresses marked safe ends up in the spam category. Wish you luck.
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