Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

[Linuxguy123]

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 11:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 12:12 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > The good things about gmail are:
> > 
> > * it is free of charge,
> > * it has a large storage capacity (cca. 7GB per user),
> > * it is hardly blacklisted anywhere,
> > * it allows you to use a client of your choice.
> 
> * It has excellent junk mail filtering
> * A recent addition allows you to avoid the conversation-based flow if
> you don't like it.
> * Although the web interface doesn't support threading directly, it
> doesn't mess up the headers the way Yahoo! does.
> * If you use it as an SMTP server, it keeps a copy of everything you
> send (so turn off sent mail archiving in your email client). You may or
> may not like this.
> * All your mail is indexed and can be searched very quickly using
> Google's engine.
> 
> My subscribed address on this list is via Gmail, and I use it almost
> entirely via Evolution, occasionally via Thunderbird, and only once in a
> while via the web interface.

I do the same thing... gmail, Evolution and occasionally web.  Its
excellent.   I don't have to run my own mail server.  I can change ISPs
and not have issues with losing email.   Evolution is pretty solid,
though pretty plain too.   Everything is backed up.   Its great.