On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 14:51, Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> There are two parts to this. The first is that Thunderbird is a bloated > monstrosity ejected when Mozilla collapsed under its own weight and went > supernova. It's had years of feature creep since. Up to a point, Lord Corlett. It is a bit, but on the other hand, it does actually work and work quite well most of the time. (An as-yet untraced bug prevents me using it at $JOB.) I've tried Evolution, Sylpheed, Balsa, KMail, GNUmail and a number of others. All were lacking functionality I consider important, such as being able to fetch mail in the background while I am reading/writing. I currently use Claws. It's clunky but functional. It can't do simple stuff like remembering anyone I ever write to in the address book, though. > The second is that Google > would rather you use the web interface where they can show you ads so the IMAP > service is subtly nonstandard to confuse your client. I never see 'em. I've been routinely running ad-blockers for about 15 years or more. It's about *the* best browser-based email I've ever seen, though, and I've tried most of them since Elonex HTMaiL in 1995. Most suck. A few are OK. Gmail is actually _good_. They're dropping useful features all the time, though. > MacOS includes a perfectly good GUI mail client. It is even aware that GMail is > not a standard IMAP/SMTP mail service and works round its quirks. It's OK. Its facelifts have not improved actual functionality. The thread mode is weird and I never fully understood it. I can't mark mails as read/unread, flagged/unflagged, etc with a simple click as I can in T'bird, betraying its mid-1980s origins. And of course I can't use it on my Linux laptops. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053