the nice thing about gmail is that spam never gets downloaded. the bad thing about multiple mail reading programs is getting them to agree/work. gmail followed me around the world and will again soon.
and if you get a message from "joe bloggs" saying "what about that mail i sent you last week" you can search spam for joe - maybe he used the word enlargement or something similar. brucee On 2/6/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > don't say Mac to me ... use gmail. > > the nice thing about imap is that you can use multiple mail > reading programs at once as long as you keep the data on > the server. so you can use os x mail or sylpheed or whatever > else when you absolutely need to, but acme mail (if you like it) > for most reading. that is, once there is a better imap upas/fs. > > right now i download my mail via pop3 from gmail and read > it using my hacked up acme mail+mh, but in a pinch i can still > go to gmail. > > russ >
