Re: [tlug] [OT] email client tips?

[Travis Cardwell <travis.cardwell@example.com>]

On 2014年04月25日 12:19, Jim Breen wrote:
> I moved to Gmail about 7 years ago. I wouldn't do it now for
> various reasons, e.g. dislike of "Do-no-evil-apart-from-not-paying-
> tax-in-countries-where-we-make-sales", and would probably
> look for an independent IMAP-based provider where I could use
> a "jim@example.com" style of address. (Before Gmail I use mush.)

Migrating off of GMail can be difficult, but if you ever decide to do so, 
a recommended IMAP-based provider is FastMail:

https://www.fastmail.fm/

Speaking of the style of address, another source of frustration when I 
started to use GMail was having to follow Google's style: a first name, an 
optional "." character, and a last name.  Until then, I had used "tcard@" 
addresses for years, as "tcard" is my username.  I experimented with 
aliases, but I ended up breaking down and using the Google style in order 
to make things work well.

> I use vim all the time, of course, apart from email.  8-)}

Until recently, it was easy to use gvim with the GMail web interface via 
the It's All Text! add-on in Firefox [1].  That stopped working, however, 
when the developers tried to be clever and implement a custom editor 
within the DOM.

I mention it because the It's All Text add-on is still a great way to edit 
text in textareas with the editor of your choice; it still works great 
with other webmail applications.

Cheers,

Travis

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[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/