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I am still waiting for a proper browser based mail client that will let me read email from a variety of IMAP servers, rather than email 'clients' that are actua
by drvortex 12y ago
I am still waiting for a proper browser based mail client that will let me read email from a variety of IMAP servers, rather than email 'clients' that are actually not clients, but just interfaces to a particular email service.
- Steuard 12y agoWhat is the advantage of "browser based" in this case? It sounds like you're asking for a mail client that's not tied to a particular mail provider's website, and that's what native clients have provided ever since IMAP was developed.
- fluidcruft 12y agoI think the difference is a browser extension would be portable (and work on locked-down thin clients such as chromebooks where "native" clients are "browser based"). Relatedly, I really, really, wish ChromeOS would support smartcards but reading the frustration of the government/military types that have been begging for this feature for years with no real interest by Google is very disappointing. I really like the form factor of YubiKey Neo that simply hangs on your keychain and just sticks into a USB port to become a smartcard. We're also never going to have gpg-agent on ChromeOS so smartcards is pretty much the only way to keep the private keys off the machine.