Uday Reddy <[email protected]> writes:
> But the biggest negative of gmail is of course is that it productizes you.
> ("If you don't pay for a product, you are the product.")
Gmail's lacks what seems to be the most basic e-mail: you can't
get e-mail message out of it uncorrupted:
- There is no way to forward a message as an attachment. So
you can't have someone join a thread just by forwarding the
message to them.
- There is no way to save messages to a file.
- It insists on formatting certain MIME types, sometimes it
does this incorrectly. Incorrect is understandable, since
email often is invalid HTML. Not being able to get the
unformatted (uncorrupted) message is a dead end.
All of this lead to a very stressful few hours once.
That said, gmail is a great imap server for VM :-)
Mark
