Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a historical perspective; I still have a few years of email stored from Thunderbird and Eudora before that. AJAX is a tool to create an online interface for POP and IMAP. It isn't an email protocol. Underneath you still have POP or IMAP. Any IMAP client can store email in the cloud and download copies to keep locally. Tell grandpa his email client is just fine. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
Tell grandpa his email client is just fine. Gramps appreciates the vote of support, but are you sure GMail has an IMAP server behind it? Recall that they tacked on IMAP support later. I think GMail has a custom database behind it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
Google was broken for a while this morning: http://tinyurl.com/brkao8 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] gmail offline
Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interface. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ? -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM Subject: gmail offline Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interface. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
I suspected that would be the case. I am using gmail as I changed providers after over 10 years with att dialup and don't want to go through that again ...I considered yahoo but settled on gmail as it seemed likely to have longevity ...I am using pop and outlook ...the heck with their scheme which seems mostly directed at snooping for push opportunities ...in outlook I save and archive mail for years and have folders for all and can backup the whole sheebang with 2 .pst files which can go on my thumb drive for portability too ...I don't see what good the online gmail is unless one used a blackberry or such and had limited space and a need to see old mail for work or such ...I use gmail just as a portal, that's all ...thanks for the info ...doesn't seem like it's worthwhile for my purposes. -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:49 PM To: rleesimon Subject: Re: gmail offline Buried deep at C:\Users\cj\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sdvhhoyb.default\Google Gears for Firefox\mail.google.com is 231mb of new data, mostly attachments, mostly .jpgs.. The mail itself seems to be in a long series of numbered plain text files like mail[123]. Most of these files are unreadable in notepad, though I suspect there may be many plain text emails saved among them. This isn't quite what I really wanted from gmail. I'd rather just have a scheduled Download zip with all emails setting. But this is not bad; I can always zip it myself, but then, being on C:, it's getting imaged daily/monthly anyway. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote: How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ? -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM Subject: gmail offline Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interfa * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] escribió: Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interface. I have GMail offline, too, with an excellent interface. It has easy downloads/syncing, lots of features, filters, multiple accounts, quick searches. It's called Mozilla Thunderbird. GMail has POP and IMAP email you can use with almost _any_ email client, not just the one you get from Google! It's amazing! The new GMail client is no big deal, unless you can't live without exactly the same format as online. Big yawn. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a historical perspective; I still have a few years of email stored from Thunderbird and Eudora before that. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:58 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] escribió: Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interface. I have GMail offline, too, with an excellent interface. It has easy downloads/syncing, lots of features, filters, multiple accounts, quick searches. It's called Mozilla Thunderbird. GMail has POP and IMAP email you can use with almost _any_ email client, not just the one you get from Google! It's amazing! The new GMail client is no big deal, unless you can't live without exactly the same format as online. Big yawn. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline
maybe your boss is gonna read your quips on this board while you hang out at the water cooler !! http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090130/tc_zd/236556 -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:49 PM To: rleesimon Subject: Re: gmail offline Buried deep at C:\Users\cj\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sdvhhoyb.default\Google Gears for Firefox\mail.google.com is 231mb of new data, mostly attachments, mostly .jpgs.. The mail itself seems to be in a long series of numbered plain text files like mail[123]. Most of these files are unreadable in notepad, though I suspect there may be many plain text emails saved among them. This isn't quite what I really wanted from gmail. I'd rather just have a scheduled Download zip with all emails setting. But this is not bad; I can always zip it myself, but then, being on C:, it's getting imaged daily/monthly anyway. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote: How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ? -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM Subject: gmail offline Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand what was happening and actually give me a usable interfa * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
