Hi, I actually own a domain hosted through Linode. It's a somewhat professional domain, though I've always preferred using internet e-mail services (don't ask me why). I suppose it wouldn't hurt to migrate things to a more personal address (I do indeed own one of these as well, but it's DNS records are conspicuously not pointing to anything currently). For now, I'm going to slap everything onto my iCloud address, however. I'm aiming to move everything to my personal .com domain in the very near or somewhat near future.
Probably not the bestest of decisions, but oh well; I really don't have time to sit down and install/edit packages on my Linux box for mail and such at the moment. It's rather easy to do, but can be annoyingly time consuming if things go wrong. I regularly run a VM of Windows, almost primarily, on my MacBook. Mostly do to the fact that the mail isn't as appealing on mac as it is on Windows. Even Microsoft Outlook is faster, especially with threading of topics. It seems there is no way to set my iCloud as my primary address on my Apple ID, because it is an Apple domain. This is especially irritating because if I was a newer user of Apple, I would be able to do this. Anyways... Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. The assistance has been greatly helpful in my decision, not only for a mail client, but for an e-mail address service as well. If anyone has any other tips, feel free to throw them my way. Best regards, Tristan On 7/12/14, Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> wrote: > Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > >> Thunderbird is one of the major reasons I have been toying with going >> back >> to Windows as my primary OS on my iMac. It might not be Mozilla's fault >> that Apple's APIs aren't easy to use in portable code, or it might, but >> Thunderbird is another one for those who care. It's well-supported, >> standards-compliant, and with the right add-ins, is basically >> feature-complete. It's not accessible on the Mac. I use this for list >> participation in places where etiquette is important. >> > > It reportedly works well with Orca under Linux too, but I prefer Mutt. > >> As for Gmail users determined to stay on Mail.app, you could try setting >> up >> OfflineIMAP. That is rumoured to be a great help with performance, but >> the >> setup of OfflineIMAP isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. People >> wishing to attempt it should express some sort of interest, and we'll take >> a >> look at it. >> > > I just checked - it's available in HomeBrew, which includes a Launchd > configuration to start it up when you log into OS X. >> As Jason said, one of the easiest and most effective solutions to handle >> switchovers is purchasing a domain. Most registrars will forward mail >> for >> your domain to another mailbox, or else you can use a dedicated provider >> such as Fastmail or Runbox. These two also offer standard accounts at >> their >> domains too, of course, and are all standards-compliant IMAP/SMTP/POP3. >> Sadly, there was a time when I vowed for a simpler life, and now if I >> want >> to switch again it will have to be manually, from iCloud. > > You can also go to a provider such as linode.com, set up a Linux server > instance and host your own mail, DNS and other services there. In this > case, > you're in complete control of everything. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
