Need mail client recommendation

Post #378,410 by drook 7/24/13 11:09:00 AM Reply	Need mail client recommendation I'm about to lose my dual-boot system at work. I've got Evolution on the Linux instance, connected to my imap mail server. What mail client should I use on Windows? Or should I start moving everything to gmail? -- Drew
Post #378,411 by boxley 7/24/13 12:24:36 PM Reply	thunderbird? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #378,415 by folkert 7/24/13 2:00:20 PM Reply	I'm in the process... Of moving my personal e-mail to Google Apps/Mail/Everything for my personal stuff. I've been using it since 2009 for Work stuff... I'm getting to just like having the ability. I think very soon, I'll be doing it for me wife next. She is already so "web-based" e-mail centric... she is ok with it. I'm still running my machine out of Troy, MI. It is moving soon. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #378,419 by drook 7/24/13 5:19:58 PM Reply	What about rules? And wildcards? I've got a bunch of rules filtering things to folders, plus a bunch of spam ones - which I assume Gmail will probably handle as well or better. I also use wildcards, so *@domain.com is delivered to a catch-all address. Will that still work? -- Drew
Post #378,423 by crazy 7/24/13 5:37:03 PM Reply	It's in there https://www.google.c...p+gmail+filtering
Post #378,436 by drook 7/24/13 10:28:10 PM Reply	Think I'll try that with one of my domains Using labels instead of folders would take some getting used to. -- Drew
Post #378,439 by folkert 7/25/13 3:33:45 AM Reply	Using labels instead of folders In IMAP they show up as Folders. Only the Web Interface shows Labels. Works exactly the same as Folders. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #378,443 by crazy 7/25/13 8:20:02 AM Reply	Yeah, but better A message can have multiple labels, to "appear" in different folders at the same time. https://www.google.c...for+gmail+message
Post #378,437 by mvitale 7/24/13 10:28:33 PM Reply	Re: What about rules? And wildcards? Yes, both work. Gmail has filters. There's no way that I'm aware of to import from Evolution (or any other client (but I haven't really looked very hard...)) Assuming you own the domain name and have it switched over to the Goog for mail, you can have up to n (last time I looked, n = 10) named email addresses, each with their own account/password/etc...And you can also have a catch-all that delivers everything-else@domain.com to the catch-all. I make heavy use of that since switching from running m'own Exim to Gmail. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #378,438 by drook 7/24/13 11:20:01 PM Reply	Only thing I'm worried about What happens if they kill gmail? I thought Reader was safe, now that's gone. -- Drew
Post #378,440 by folkert 7/25/13 3:37:06 AM Reply	Reader has waning interest. GMAIL is doubling in size about every 9 months. Plus, for paid service, I've gone from 10GB of mail storage in 2009 to 30GB of mail storage now... and they use a compressed format. they 9GB I'm using right now... would be well over 40GB of mail on my server. E-mail and Apps are tied together hugely... separate services like Reader was... aren;t going away anytime in the next 10+ year... if ever. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #378,444 by crazy 7/25/13 8:25:09 AM Reply	It's a cornerstone of their world Advertising on web pages requires them to track everything you do and play the ads accordingly. Lots of overhead, and they can never be sure it is targeted correctly. Advertising in gmail allows them to just scan your email. It's how they compete with MS directly, killing Exchange boxes. It is an income stream in itself, with LOTS of paid customers. And MOST important, if they make noises about it going away, the NSA will force them to keep it. It's not going away.
Post #378,441 by folkert 7/25/13 3:43:32 AM Reply	There is a Migration tool that... That once you give it your login crdentails for the remote e-mail service... GMAIL will go and search look for folder and make labels for them and download and label all of them. It worked great in 2009, just recently it worked really excellently for another company I migrated. The whole company migrated from another webmail/exchange service in about 3 days all 8M plus messages from the exchange service they were using was migrated. They have saved over $3000/year and now have collaboration tools and pages and etc... -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C

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