I've worked in places that are dozens or hundreds of miles from the nearest cell tower, and not worth installing sat internet for a few days. Without internet, having access to all email for lookup on a PC is very useful. Starlink may change that limitation.
If a Gmail account gets cracked, it's very possible for all mail to get intentionally deleted or for the account to be locked. Since Gmail is a free service, there is no guarantee of recovery from that, either of messages or access - you may simply lose everything. I use Thunderbird to do a full download of my gmail account every few months to reduce that risk. On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:29 PM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote: > Can I ask why anyone likes using desktop email programs? Ever since I was > a kid, I've dreaded helping people with outlook, live mail, or thunderbird > because of issues like you're describing. > > Also people who didn't set up IMAP so their emails disappeared off their > email server and only existed on their computer. Then they didn't back > things up so when their computer crashed, bye bye to all their emails. Or > if they bought a new computer and need to migrate, it takes an hour or two > to backup and move the outlook file. > > Holy crap I shiver when I think about desktop email. > > Gmail.com and then move on with life. Forget about database issues, new > computers, spam filtering, multiple devices per account, backups, etc. > > You couldn't convince me to ever use desktop email. That's so 2001 haha > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 12:05 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> EM Client can read the Outlook calendar invites. It's free for 1 >> account. Paid version if you need to check multiple accounts. Mainly it's >> fast, even with a large Inbox. Highly recommend. >> >> It also syncs with my GMail Calendar. >> >> Thunderbird performance seems inversely proportional to how much mail I >> have. Haven't used Outlook since the 2003 version. >> >> >> On 11/17/2020 12:45 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: >> >> So, today it appears that my Windows Live Mail database is corrupt. Can >> only see headers. So switching to outlook but that is painful. >> >> I rolled back the windows update that happened last night but still dead >> WLM… sob… >> >> >> >> Have resisted outlook for years. Few times it would be nice. When >> someone sends a meeting or contact at least I can read it without having to >> use a text editor and parsing through the complex crap… >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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