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Right? I'm not sure what the allure of desktop email clients is. I could understand maybe if you found yourself offline a lot but what could you really accompli
by dgunn 13y ago
Right? I'm not sure what the allure of desktop email clients is. I could understand maybe if you found yourself offline a lot but what could you really accomplish without internet anyway? No new mail is coming in. You could compose messages but they wouldn't be sent. Just type up your message in text file and paste it into gmail once your connectivity is restored.
I guess I've just really missed the point of email clients or something cause people still make them and people still use them.
- jason_slack 13y agoWell for me, I am going back to POP, actually. This is the only real way that I can be sure my 26+gb of 14 years of e-mail is safe. On my machine + backups. You might say that is a lot of mail, an extreme case, but when you help people, have clients, customers, sell stuff, etc all communication should be saved in case.
- dgunn 13y agoDo you mean safe as in from corruption/deletion? Or safe from prying eyes? If I had something digital that I really couldn't afford to lose, the first place I would turn is to Google. Same goes for security. They may have their AI bots peruse through my stuff so they can advertise to me but overall I would think data is probably safer in their hands than my own. I know that's just my opinion. But they don't have a long record of losing data/being hacked.