[CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread Tony B
Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while offline. When killing the internet, it t

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread rleesimon
How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ? -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM Subject: gmail offline Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread rleesimon
I suspected that would be the case. I am using gmail as I changed providers after over 10 years with att dialup and don't want to go through that again ...I considered yahoo but settled on gmail as it seemed likely to have longevity ...I am using pop and outlook ...the heck with their scheme which

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread b_s-wilk
Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] escribió: Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread Tony B
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a historical perspective; I s

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-30 Thread rleesimon
maybe your boss is gonna read your quips on this board while you hang out at the water cooler !! http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090130/tc_zd/236556 -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:49 PM To: rleesimon Subject: Re: gmail offline

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-31 Thread b_s-wilk
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a historical perspective; I

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-31 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Tell grandpa his email client is just fine. Gramps appreciates the vote of support, but are you sure GMail has an IMAP server behind it? Recall that they tacked on IMAP support later. I think GMail has a custom database behind it. **

Re: [CGUYS] gmail offline

2009-01-31 Thread Jordan
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