[MLUG] the death of SMTP+POP+IMAP

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Comments?...

http://deflexion.com/2007/07/dying-thunderbird

That's by Nancy McGough.  She writes a lot of technical stuff about email, 
Pine, Procmail, stuff like that.

So what will the future bring?  Are we all headed to webmail hell?  I like 
keeping my email on my server and storing it all in millions of folders. 
And I like filtering incoming messages with procmail to put mail in lots 
of different inboxes.  Gmail has some nice ideas but it isn't better now 
than what I can do with Procmail, etc.

Gmail uses "conversations" and labels and a Db approach to storage and 
retrieval of messages.  Maybe the Db and use of labels is the way to go, 
and I should aspire to that, but the "conversations" are only good half of 
the time.  It's almost like forcing every message from a thread to be 
wrapped into a single message.  The threading is cool but it causes 
problems for searches, when sorting messages by date, etc.

Mike

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