I have been using Gmail for about 5 years now, and have found it to interface very nicely via IMAP with Thunderbird, Mail.app, and my iPhone 3G. As far as I know, Gmail does have a full IMAP interface. The only reason I use Mail.app is because of its integration with other OS X apps, and the fact that half the time my internet connection here is down, so it's nice to be able to look through my mail archives without being connected. I don't particularly like the web interface, as it displays nested folders as tags with embedded slashes (e.g. Friends/SantaFe/FRIAM), and only dedicates a very small width to display them. With deeply nested folders, it shows up as Friends/Sant... or something ridiculous. Maybe I just need to stop using so many deeply nested folders...
Gary On Jun 5, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: > I've been using Gmail for three or four years now, both for my home and work > accounts. I never bothered with mail clients, I just used the web interface; > it was practical for me as I'm always hopping between various machines and I > like to get to my email from whichever machine I happen to be on. > > Owen, what are you looking to get from a mail client that you won't get from > the web interface? > > —R ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
