Re: [MLUG] the death of SMTP+POP+IMAP

["Ryanne Dolan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I hope email dies altogether.  Time to find a system that doesn't allow me to send your letter of resignation to your boss.

Ryanne

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

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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