[plug] Gmail Accounts

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 21 June 2004 12:23, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> Me too. I'm not convinced any web based interface that has to work
> within the limitations of current browser technology can possibly come
> close to a good IMAP client :-) . 

Current browsers have the technology, although it's not exactly 
well-structured, documented, etc... Current web programmers either choose not 
to use the features, or wouldn't have a clue how to. There's always that 
issue of compatability.

And unfortunately, the weakest link in standards & feature compliance is also 
the most widely used...

> On the other hand, a good IMAP client 
> is ... mighty hard to find. They all seem to suck in one way or another
> (bad interface or bad IMAP support usually). 

Agreed. I use Thunderbird at home - but it has some quirks which bug the heck 
outta me. I use kmail at work - but sorely miss T's quicksearch.

> Even so, not being web 
> based seems a major advantage.

How so? 
Of course, it depends on usage patterns, but I've found Gmail at home over a 
modem, more usable than Thunderbird+IMAP. As someone with a lot of E-mail, 
who likes access to it from all sorts of strange places, Webmail is that 
little more accessible than IMAP.

The main disadvantage/complaint I have about Gmail interface-wise is you have 
to use a TEXTAREA field for composing E-mail. Ugh! ^_^ 

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