That's a good point, but I'm not really sure how to setup or even use an IMAP share. Also, (I assume you're talking about setting up an e-mail address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), don't you have to buy a domain name for that?
-Peter On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:24 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Peter Davoust wrote: > > You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail > > as your personal e-mail? > > For me it is a couple of things - one is that I prefer to have email > addresses that I can keep that are not client-dependent. Sure, right > now gmail allows POP3 access, but that could change some day. Plus, > some day if gmail's spam filters become lousy I don't need to > redistribute new email addresses to everybody I know. > > As far as their saving messages go - I've got an IMAP store with just > about every email I've ever sent (well, at least since I started > understanding what I was doing and had PPP/SLIP access to the net). > Gmail might offer the same right now, but down the road if they have a > glitch and lose your email you won't have much recourse (you get what > you pay for). > > I just keep all my mail in an IMAP store, and I can try any mail client > I want anytime I want. I can use thunderbird over vnc over ssh > remotely, or if that lags too much I can just use squirrelmail or > something like that. I could even open up my IMAP server to the world > and use gmail to read my IMAP mail I suppose (I assume gmail handles > IMAP on other servers). After all the sylpheed-claws talk a few days > ago I emerged it, tried it out, and now I'm back on thunderbird after > tweaking it. The nice thing about open standards is that you aren't > married to anything - even if it is something good at the moment. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFKSYwG4/rWKZmVWkRAqc6AKCjqURRoBA6J1nTvC06rGI/ELyiUACfadBL > lIsB0WpcSMbG8Vl0nXrk/lI= > =CO+f > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
