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Desktop or web-based email?
Mark J. Reeves | Dec 9 2007
After getting used to Gmail 3 years ago, I swore I'd stick to web-based email. With IMAP now available, I set it up last week in Apple's Mail client on my desktop to integrate better with offline storage, emailing links, etc, and found myself changing my ways. It wasn't easy: The initial download took forever and I had to work at getting Apple's Junk Filters to cooperate. (I.e., still work on the 2 POP accounts I check in Mail while leaving Gmail's already filtered mail alone). I'm a convert. I used to open a browser window with three tabs: Google homepage, RSS, and Gmail and check it throughout the day. Now I'm in Mail only when I need to be, and ignore RSS and news until it occurs to me to catch up. I did really like the Gmail interface, with conversations, shortcuts, etc, but I've been trying to make Safari my full-time browser and it wasn't playing nice. I've found a surge of productivity by sticking to the desktop. How do others find web-based vs. desktop email to impact their productivity? 55 Comments
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 Mail.app with Gmail’s IMAP = headaches for miraclesSubmitted by bigcloits on December 10, 2007 - 9:07pm.
Don't plan on using Gmail's web interface more than once or twice a week for five minutes. But piping all my accounts into Gmail, having the spam stripped away with 99.9% accuracy, and then accessing everything from everywhere with IMAP is a miracle... ? Wow. Cool. That setup solved several serious chronic problems with my email-dependent life and work. I’m in love. But it's the power of the concept I'm in love with, and definitely not Mail.app. I nearly lost my mind trying to configure Mail.app to do the IMAP thing, and after two weeks I'm still having daily WTF moments. I've spent hours reading forum discussions about configuration, getting more confused instead of less, tinkering with seemingly endless combinations of associations between local/Gmail folders, watching an equally endless parade of fubar unintended consequences. 50 duplicates of your drafts in your trash, anyone? Etc. C'mon, no one seriously thinks Mail.app's IMAP implementation is good, do they? » POSTED IN:
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