Aras PranckevičiusFeb 22

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/116000179696043824

Gmail has decided to stop supporting fetching email from external accounts, so time to start de-gmailing. It was a good 20 year run!

First attempt, Thunderbird. It feels... slow and janky? And *this* is the most popular free email client?! No wonder gmail took the world by storm.

Mailspring from Rune's thread (thanks!) feels decent, let's see how that goes.

Show threadTobias A. Franke

@aras For me it comes down to versatility: I store all mails since 1994 in one giant Thunderbird profile using maildir and lots of filters that sort mails after archiving.

I have an ancient backup system running rsync, and having loads of tiny files is perfect to sync them across SSH to some backup machine. If the world explodes, I can still use mutt on a console to search my mails.

Feb 22 at 9:14pmWeb