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My favorite email client is gmail's webmail. In terms of UX it's horrible, but importantly I don't want my email stored in my computer. I trust google to be sa

My favorite email client is gmail's webmail. In terms of UX it's horrible, but importantly I don't want my email stored in my computer. I trust google to be safer than my computer. Am I alone on this?

p2hari 4y ago
Same here, tried Apple, Thunderbird, Mutt and Canary. I come back to Gmail's webmail. I do not want emai lto be stored on my computer. With firefox containers , I can have dedicated containers for different emails. With Karabiner and Hammerspoon it is easy to have good keyboard navigation. Gmail webmail itself has very good keybindings to get most of the work done. So you are not alone :). If not for webmail, maybe Canary mail is a good alternative.
justusthane 4y ago
Fastmail is recommended so often on HN it's starting to feel like a bit of a meme, but if you want a solid, reliable cloud email provider with a better and faster UI than Gmail, check it out. If it's helpful, I wrote a small guide on switching off of Gmail here: https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ Edit: And as an aside, my guess would be that very few people are storing their email solely on their computer. Even people running their own mail servers are likely storing the mail on the server and syncing it to their clients with IMAP.
- mathstuf 4y ago
  Agreed. Gmail is a rampant lagfest whenever I end up using it (I only go to update filters and labels anymore). The HTML site is a lot more responsive and usable IME (though the filter form's length limits need edited in a debugger to fit my queries). With the "plain" HTML frontend filter updates are fast because it's all done directly to the database. With the "fancy" frontend, it seems to be client-side driven and take minutes to "apply and update" any changes.

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My favorite email client is gmail's webmail. In terms of UX it's horrible, but importantly I don't want my email stored in my computer. I trust google to be sa

by sdfhdfger 4y ago

p2hari 4y ago
Same here, tried Apple, Thunderbird, Mutt and Canary. I come back to Gmail's webmail. I do not want emai lto be stored on my computer. With firefox containers , I can have dedicated containers for different emails. With Karabiner and Hammerspoon it is easy to have good keyboard navigation. Gmail webmail itself has very good keybindings to get most of the work done. So you are not alone :). If not for webmail, maybe Canary mail is a good alternative.
justusthane 4y ago
Fastmail is recommended so often on HN it's starting to feel like a bit of a meme, but if you want a solid, reliable cloud email provider with a better and faster UI than Gmail, check it out. If it's helpful, I wrote a small guide on switching off of Gmail here: https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ Edit: And as an aside, my guess would be that very few people are storing their email solely on their computer. Even people running their own mail servers are likely storing the mail on the server and syncing it to their clients with IMAP.
- mathstuf 4y ago
  Agreed. Gmail is a rampant lagfest whenever I end up using it (I only go to update filters and labels anymore). The HTML site is a lot more responsive and usable IME (though the filter form's length limits need edited in a debugger to fit my queries). With the "plain" HTML frontend filter updates are fast because it's all done directly to the database. With the "fancy" frontend, it seems to be client-side driven and take minutes to "apply and update" any changes.