-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:29 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/29/08 15:14, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:11 +0000 >>> Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:20 -0500 >>>> "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello H.S., >>>> >>>>>> I just discovered the other day that gmail doesn't have folders! >>>>> I guess they replaced that with labels. >>>> Which does nothing to improve wading through a list of messages. :-( >>> Why not? Whenever you would move a message into folder X, just label >>> it X. Clicking on label X (or entering 'label:X' in the search box) >>> will then limit the view to all X messages. The only difference >>> between folders and labels, AFAIU, is that a message can be in only one >>> folder, but it can have multiple labels. Am I missing something? >> (Evolution has something similar, but also still has folders.) >> >> Because with folders the messages are just *there*. No need to >> click this, click that, search this, search that. >> >> Here's a link to a screenshot of my nested folders and threaded >> email. It's Icedove, but Evo, Sylpheed & KMail, Iceape etc would >> all look essentially the same. Outlook would, too, if it knew how >> to thread (or I could figure out how to turn it on). >> >> http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Email_screenshot.png >> >> If gmail can do that, then *please* send me a screenshot! > > Point conceded. I don't actually use the Gmail webmail interface much > (I download via POP and use Sylpheed). It is still true that Gmail's > labels can be useful for sorting mail, although it's certainly a > different (and arguably inferior) paradigm than the classic folder > hierarchy. > >> Ron Johnson, Jr. > > Celejar > -- > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > I'm not sure it is, i'm using Gmail's label's to sort (albiet using thunderbird to "move" the messages into the "folder"(label)
It's working VERY neatly for me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzd9CLeTfO4yBSAcRAn3ZAJsGHDq1e5+wEqqK+IsY+ssOgNnpJwCgskze Xk8xAb53MP1N9AhRPprTw9k= =Ks/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
