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How do you handle email on other devices?

• pmontra 3y ago
  I check my mail with k9 on Android, delete uninteresting messages and download on my laptop, maybe only once every two or three days. To reply and send from Android and not to lose my message I configure k9 to Bcc me. I get my message in my mailbox and my filters on Thunderbird will put it into the right folder when I eventually download mail. Of course I'm missing the ability to read my past mail from my phone but life has proven that it's not important neither for my work nor for private matters. Furthermore communications are moving more and more to WhatsApp and Telegram and those are always available on multiple devices.
  • aembleton 3y ago
    > configure k9 to Bcc me Is that Bcc to gmail?
    • pmontra 3y ago
      I do have a Gmail account because of Android and maybe I self squatted a Gmail account before I had an Android phone. I can't remember. However I have a POP3 mailbox bundled with a domain I own since last century. That's my personal email. I never moved it to Gmail because I always downloaded my mail: some emacs package, then Netscape, then Outlook express, then Thunderbird. As a software developer I'm always close to my laptop and before smartphones it was normal not to access email when we were on vacation or on weekends, holidays, etc. When I'm on vacation now I read my mail on my phone, reply and bcc me, leave all messages on the server and download them when I'm back home. My work email is managed in the same way. Another POP3 account bundled with my own work domain name. No friend or customer ever complained about anything in almost 20 years, hence constant access to the archive of past email is a nice to have feature but not an important one.
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• gsich 3y ago
  You could leave the mails on the server.