[plug] Gmail Accounts

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 21 June 2004 13:29, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> There is the advantage of access from anywhere. I solve that with https
> and Squirrelmail. Sure, squirrelmail isn't nice to use, but I only have
> to use it when I for some reason need my mail and don't have my laptop.
> SSH + IPv6 6to4 == good :-)

Yeah, I have a webmail client to talk to my IMAP when I'm really desperate.

I'm hoping the full release of Gmail will support IMAP as well (There's 
already a third-party hack to give POP access to Gmail. ^_^)

> That'd be my #1 complaint. Also, I find Web UIs generally just can't
> offer the little things quite as well - address completion, for example.

Gmail has scarily effective address completion. 

Next? ^_^

> I also can't hook 3rd party webmail into my work or personal LDAP
> address book.

True.
Although again, I wouldn't be suprised if down the track you could get a 
Firefox Plugin to do LDAP look-ups for Gmail.

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