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Good questions! For these reasons and others, such as the lack of any concept of mail bouncing and the inability to even edit headers, I don’t regard Gmail as b
by leephillips 6y ago
Good questions! For these reasons and others, such as the lack of any concept of mail bouncing and the inability to even edit headers, I don’t regard Gmail as being an email client. Instead, I think of it as a kind of toy program that was designed to demonstrate what could be done with javascript, and it was an impressive demonstration when it came out.
I’ve had discussions with various groups that I’ve worked with where some people get the idea to move to Slack or some other platform, because email is not working well enough. When I ask them what the problem is with email, they start describing the shortcomings of...Gmail. They actually have no problem with email, they’ve just never used an email program.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoEven more fun when a workplace disallows anything than the gmail web client... drives me a bit nutty.
- shorsher 6y agoAs someone who just joined a small startup using google accounts, do you have any good recommendations for desktop/email clients? Prior company used outlook.
- zikzak 6y agoHave you tried Thunderbird?
- shorsher 6y agoAlways thought about it but never followed through, thanks for reminding me to try it.
- qwerty456127 6y agoDoes it support labels? Using labels instead of folders is among the killer-features I love GMail for.
- arminiusreturns 6y agonotmuch or mu4e are both quite good for email in general, including gmail. The setup isnt always the easiest, but worth it once you get the flow imho. Thunderbird if you like guis.
- shaicoleman 6y agoYou can give the basic HTML version of Gmail a try: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049