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Do you feel a tinge of jealousy when you see 'normal' people simply use Gmail?

by gms 16y ago

dhess 16y ago
Only for searching. This feeling is mitigated a bit by the recent improvements in nnir IMAP search in the development version of Gnus, but it's still not as nice as Gmail search. On the other hand, I use Gmail to archive some mailing lists (precisely because the search is so good -- almost always better than whatever archiving system the list maintainers are using), and my god is it slow! Slow to switch folders, slow to search.... So in that regard, I don't understand how people use Gmail as their primary MUA. On occasion I hear a story about how someone complains that Gmail is slow, often in a public place like Twitter, and then some magical Gmail fairy moves their records to a less-contended shard/tablet/whatever, which improves things. Maybe I'm just unlucky.
- unhammer 16y ago
  You can use notmuch-search with Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch Now there's nothing at all you could possibly miss from Gmail ;)
- unhammer 16y ago
  You can use notmuch-search with Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch Now there's nothing at all you could possibly miss from Gmail ;)
- RBerenguel 16y ago
  I have installed the latest cvs gnus... And search looks broken: I made a search (that I knew worked) and it keeps on fetching and reordering the buffer of results forever. I'll try to check what is going on, or waiting a little longer... :/ Edited: Holy sh*t! Installed the latest GIT gnus... Blazingly fast!! I'll write about it this week, this is something that needs to be installed... I just can say WOW.
jfb 16y ago
Not really. My habits are far too ingrained at this point. I have taken on the INBOX/everything else structure at this point, though, and no longer maintain the vast array of twisty sorting rules of a decade ago. Too, there's no google in my life, and every other webmail interface I've seen is utter, utter pants.

Do you feel a tinge of jealousy when you see 'normal' people simply use Gmail?

by gms 16y ago

Do you feel a tinge of jealousy when you see 'normal' people simply use Gmail?

dhess 16y ago

Only for searching. This feeling is mitigated a bit by the recent improvements in nnir IMAP search in the development version of Gnus, but it's still not as nice as Gmail search. On the other hand, I use Gmail to archive some mailing lists (precisely because the search is so good -- almost always better than whatever archiving system the list maintainers are using), and my god is it slow! Slow to switch folders, slow to search.... So in that regard, I don't understand how people use Gmail as their primary MUA. On occasion I hear a story about how someone complains that Gmail is slow, often in a public place like Twitter, and then some magical Gmail fairy moves their records to a less-contended shard/tablet/whatever, which improves things. Maybe I'm just unlucky.

unhammer 16y ago
You can use notmuch-search with Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch Now there's nothing at all you could possibly miss from Gmail ;)
unhammer 16y ago
You can use notmuch-search with Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch Now there's nothing at all you could possibly miss from Gmail ;)
RBerenguel 16y ago
I have installed the latest cvs gnus... And search looks broken: I made a search (that I knew worked) and it keeps on fetching and reordering the buffer of results forever. I'll try to check what is going on, or waiting a little longer... :/ Edited: Holy sh*t! Installed the latest GIT gnus... Blazingly fast!! I'll write about it this week, this is something that needs to be installed... I just can say WOW.

jfb 16y ago

Not really. My habits are far too ingrained at this point. I have taken on the INBOX/everything else structure at this point, though, and no longer maintain the vast array of twisty sorting rules of a decade ago. Too, there's no google in my life, and every other webmail interface I've seen is utter, utter pants.