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As an alternative to moving providers entirely, Gmail still works without using the browser interface. My iPhone and desktop email clients both handle multiple
by tlavoie 3y ago
As an alternative to moving providers entirely, Gmail still works without using the browser interface. My iPhone and desktop email clients both handle multiple providers, where Gmail is just one of a few. In other words, you can change clients immediately to try it out, and still switch email hosts if you choose and like the client later.
- kccqzy 3y agoMan it makes me feel old that there's a need to point this out. Have most people never worked with native mail clients (MUA is the technical term)? Memorizing the POP (before IMAP) and SMTP servers for my email providers was quite necessary when I was young, especially since I liked reinstalling my OS often.
- partdavid 3y agoIs there a better story for authenticating this than manually generating and storing a long-lived API key in my mutt configuration?
- lxgr 3y agoGmail supports OAuth 2 for IMAP and SMTP: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol No idea how feasible it is to integrate that with mutt in a client-only integration or if you need a backend for this, though.
- ravetcofx 3y agoIt's easier and more reliable to make an App password from my experience
- stevage 3y agoI haven't used a mail client for my personal mail in at least 20 years. Unless you count the Gmail android app.
- late25 3y agoYou don’t use one at work?
- stevage 3y agoNo I don't currently, but also: > for my personal mail
- quickthrower2 3y agoHa ha me too come to think of it. I have never used a client for personal email as I started with hotmail in 98.
- palata 3y ago> and still switch email hosts if you choose and like the client later. That's actually the whole idea behind having your own domain. If you are john@gmail.com and switch to john@fastmail.com, you have to tell all your contacts that you changed your e-mail address, which is not practical. If you are john@doe.com, you can use it with GMail, and later move to Fastmail, and nobody has to know about it.
- tlavoie 3y agoOh, I know. I have self-hosted my main email for something like a couple decades now. I was getting sick of the ISP-provided one changing, either because I switched, or one acquired another and retired the old domain. I haven't set it up to be a forwarding destination from Gmail, but should.