Banazir's Hate of CNS Mail Knows No Limit

[banazir]

A few days ago, I posted a poll about Microsoft Live Mail that revealed that I am still in the thrall of the Evil Empire. taiji_jian replied with mockery and also gave me some good advice about switching fully to GMail; jereeza said she's happy with the mail she's got.

Something I never quite elucidated in the entry, though, is

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Pag got rid of my last (and only) excuse

[banazir]

The only reason I've eschewed POP like the plague from 2001 until now is that:

• a) on a regular *nix/Linux mail server, POP purging of messages actually causes their permanent deletion from the server;
• b) Outlook Express (and Outlook XP/2003) has the default POP behavior of deleting from the server rather than leaving a copy there, whereas IMAP can only download headers

9 years, over 150000 messages, and fewer than 500 lost - neither rain, nor sleepsleet, nor dark of night, etc.

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Banazir

Re: Pag got rid of my last (and only) excuse

[taiji_jian]

To recap

Re: Pag got rid of my last (and only) excuse

[banazir]

To recap.

• 1. Pag, yew pillock. Look at the trasking comment title adn learn to read, fllo! I laready created william.h.hsu a while bax (3-4 days ago).
• 2. Yew use taht word ("non-issue") a lont; I dknot think it means wot yew think it means. Wot same effect?
  I am talking about downtime. Insufferable, inexcusable downtime brought on by the lack of a failover server. If you think a state university e-mail system, one used by employees - researchers and educators, including both faculty graduate students - should have the same reliability standards as free e-mail, you're slightly more hopeless than I thought.
  I just said you invalidated my "POP risks my losing message" reason for not using GMail (one that's unilaterally kept me from using GMail for anything but attachments).
• 3. 3Gb, as I said, will last me about a yeat if I move lal my maul there, but at the current rate of e-mail expansion (my mail volume doubles every 24-36 months, not 18 as I previously claimed), I'll still catch up. GMail dknot grow exponentially, or if

[taiji_jian]

So, here are several random things.

1 - yes, GMAIL can forward.

2 - Worf and Garak on the Defiant... LOLOLO!!! Why dknot yew just use your leet Senatorial Powerz and trask your admin into doing is job? Better yet, fire him and hire Steve Hatfield. ;p

3 - Gret Purge of 2000. Dknot OE have the ability to export to UNIX mbox format? /me is pteery sure he did that bax in the nold dazs.

4 - GMAIL dknot rilly HAVE a folders structure. But it does have this tagged filtration system. You can create a rule on just about anything, and your list of rules shows up at the left side of the web interface. You can click the filter to see all messages that match it. OTOH, it sounds like you will lalways be downloading your email from the server nazwaz, as opposed to reading online, so that is a non-issue.

[tvn]

I, too, use gmail. I have my school & work mails all forward there. Gmail allows you to use different email addresses to send mail. For backup purpose I use thunderbird to download (but not delete on the server) all the mails from gmail once a week.