Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:02:15 -0500 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists? Message-ID: <3ee9ca710702140702u4ad65d77xb121b249d00fa561@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0702140655r6fb83178g8c605cf3b3db3f83@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070212163116.7219.GERARD@seibercom.net> <8a0028260702121345p3a89084co1787fcfb571a2708@mail.gmail.com> <20070212165256.722C.GERARD@seibercom.net> <000f01c74f35$a844f160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <8a0028260702140556y68c1b3c7ted537f5927657909@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420702140559m198c21ei8a3ee85c1a8311ff@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0702140655r6fb83178g8c605cf3b3db3f83@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/14/07, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/02/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2/14/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I haven't yet found the perfect email service/client, > > > though. Maybe I should post here when I do! > > > > A personal dedicated box with a dozen of webmail clients > > set up, accessible via IMAPv4 + mutt or whatever when you > > are tired of web?.. > > Been there, done that I'd say... But it's a pain to do system > administration all the day. Years ago this was fun, but nowadays you > have to waste your time with staying up to date with firewall > configurations, bugs and their exploits. New ways for spammers to get > their unwanted mails into my inbox so I need to install new products, > applying patches... > I'm a (Solaris) Sysadmin responsible for several hundred boxes, so > when I come home i want to have some fun with my private machines. > "Fighting another round in the war for security in the Internet" isn't > fun for me. > > Yes, I know, in this case I have to trust that the companies i sign up > with do their job, but I hope that they have departments that dedicate > their time to their tasks. > > I consider gmail to be one of the best free mail providers on this > planet. I get more then I paid for. That is to say, I can store nearly > 3GB of data on their servers, leaving enough room for even the biggest > mails - and a nice mailing list archive. :-D I agree completely.I rolled a script that emails my bzipped log files to gmail too, so I can rotate them out sooner and save that much more space on my ancient PII. > Most important is that they don't append commercials to sent mail. And > the ads displayed while in the inbox aren't that noticable. > I had accounts with mail providers such as gmx.net, yahoo, web.de (a > german provider who has won over 40 prices for his freemail service -- > don't ask me why). I've seen freemail web sites that were crowded with > ads, or account being limited to 500 mails in total. Ridiculus limits > for attachment sizes. The list goes on and on. > What I really like with google is the label-thing. I don't like mails > being sorted in folders, so it suits me perfectly. > > On the other side it's what google can do with my data that makes me > nervous. So nothing is perfect, but for me gmail is the service that > comes closest to it. > > Regards > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream
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