Re: [Nolug] Gmail on your Desktop..

On 07/07/08 14:04, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 07/07/08 12:50, -ray wrote:
>>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> Don't know about Hotmail, but when last I used Yahoo, it had
>>>> folders. There's no other way to organize multiple mailing lists.
>>> Nonsense... I organize many mailing lists in gmail. You create the
>>> filter to say skip the INBOX and file directly to this label.
>> So it goes into All Mail? I've got a hundred thousand emails...
> I just installed a small javascript to my browser so that all Gmail
> labels AND sublabels are displayed same way in a tree as my thunderbird
> does when connecting via IMAP. I'm still going to use primarily
> thunderbird, at least for now. I'm used to organize stuff with it and
> all the folders in IMAP translate to gmail labels.

I'd love to see a screenshot of that.

> I do not know how many e-mails I have, but over the weekend I was able
> to transfer only about 2.5 Gb of them, and still more to go. the utility
> I found, imapsync, seems to be dying when it hits to the "ghost" entries
> in my current mailbox. After I remove the "ghost" entries which
> apparently have only a header, but no body, it should be able to do
> syncing al lthe way through.
>
>>>> But because that's impossible in Gmail, people give up. And FOSS
>>>> newbies don't know that there's a better way to organize data.
>>> Agreed... i felt the same. However once you let go of the "but i *need*
>>> folders" mentality, gmail labels are actually easier and more efficient
>>> than folders.
>>> To take that a step further, I spoke to a Google guy at Educause last
>>> year. He said he doesn't even bother organizing into labels anymore...
>>> whenever he needs something he just searches for it. If the search is
>>> good enough to always find what you need, why waste time trying to
>>> organize it?
>> And if you aren't sure exactly what to search for?
>>
>> That's why I like proper MUAs, which show thread nesting and have
>> folders.
>>
>>> Agree with Shannon... IMO gmail is the best free email out there.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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