[colug-432] Modern Mail Management

[Angelo McComis]

For me, it's all IMAP, never POP.

Mobile, Web, or Outlook -- all stays synced as far as unread/read
status, deletes go to the trash folder, there are folders, and if I
set up processing rules, they only have to be set up in one place.

With gmail/google apps, 10GB of personal mailbox = you won't really
need to worry about space for quite some time.

Angelo

On 2/4/13, Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com> wrote:
> Colug,
>
> I had been in the habit of having "one machine to rule all my personal
> email"
>
> I just got a company laptop and do not feel like moving all my personal
> email to the corporate computer.
>
> So I think what I want is to pop my email to my desktop at home, when I am
> home.
>
> I want to access the email on my phone and via webmail on my corporate
> laptop when I travel.
>
> I use gmail to manage my domain's email. I know they abuse the protocols
> badly, but for the near term I will continue to have them manage my domain
> email.
>
> So my question is this.
>
> What combination of pop and imap are you all using to have one archive, yet
> to quickly dump garbage and write short replies while away from that one
> "archive" machine.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>
> I am thinking pop for the desktop and Imap for the phone and laptop.
>
> If anyone has a recommendation outside of that let me know.
>
> For the home machine I use Mac's mail app, could be convinced to switch to
> thunderbird, as I have used it in the past.
>
> Also if I start moving mail from one app to another maybe it is time to
> archive old work email and old personal email in one location as well.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>