> I've been using a gmail account with the usual access via a web > browser for quite a while. > Sometimes I get little angry when using it, for various reasons, often > due to the firefox's slowness to render the page (scrolling a longer > thread is often pain for me). > I'd like to ask you. Do you use some client like e.g. mutt / heirloom > mailx / some plan9 client, and find its utility superior to a > web-based way?
At Flock we used Gmail as our corporate email service :-P I just pointed upas/fs at Google's IMAP servers and carried on using Acme Mail and nedmail as usual. htmlfmt(1) is a superior HTML mail reader, in my books. Using a small rc script it was trivial to run two distinct mail client instances on my terminal — one pointed at Google for work mail, the other pointed at my own IMAP server for personal mail. Like Eric, I used nedmail as a dumb threading tool. It was very useful as a brute force defence against all the cron spam our servers sent out. I would run a script that invoked nedmail to whack all the usual suspects based on subject, from, and to headers, then read the leftovers in Acme. Upas also made it very simple to write adhoc scripts to usefully process all that cron spam, something you'll never be able to do with a webmail client. --lyndon
