On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:22:29 -0400 "Jeff Soules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > GMail is known buggy and not suitable for mailing list use, if only for > > it's propensity to send HTML when the user wasn't expecting to, and it's > > brutal lack of Reply to Mailing List and poor threading. > > And yet, it's free-as-in-beer, without having to expose your home system > to the vulnerabilities associated with running your own mail server, and its > thread-collapsing system and effective search features make it heaps > easier to store debugging steps and solutions from the ML and even find > them again later. Granted, you have to be comfortable with your mail > being stored on an untrusted server; and setting up encryption and > signing in Gmail is something I've yet to attempt... but there > are pros as well as cons. Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, as I and others on the list use it. One still gets the free-as-in-beer mail service and storage space, but is free to use 'proper' software (fetchmail / getmail, MUA, gpg, procmail / maildrop, etc.) in conjunction with it. I do occasionally use the web interface for the excellent search capability, and checking the spam folder for false positives (of which there often are). Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
