Monday, 28 June 2004

Gmail deficiencies

Matt Stinson has a list of Gmail deficiencies. There are a few more I’d add:

  • No (obvious) way to search or filter on arbitrary headers, à la procmail.
  • No way to mark messages as “to” you (e.g. with ») that are addressed to other addresses than your Gmail account (useful if you’re using a procmail recipe to Bcc all your incoming mail to Gmail).
  • No way to automatically Bcc all your outgoing mail elsewhere.
  • Nonexistent handling of mailing list headers (Mail-Followup-To, etc.). Ideally, Gmail should automatically create tags based on X-Mailing-List.

Still, it’s managing to win over this devoted mutt user quite quickly.

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[Permalink] 1. Roberto wrote @ Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 10:46 am CDT:

And also:

  • no way of resending a message, or editing a sent message.
  • no GPG plugin.
  • hmmm, that’s all I can think of. :-)

I initially was using Gmail just at work, because I can’t use Thunderbird there (without bypassing the firewall). On the last few days, though, I’ve been using Gmail everywhere.

 
[Permalink] 2. Brock Sides wrote @ Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 4:20 pm CDT:

What procmail recipe are you using?

I’m just using

:0c
! philarete(at)gmail.com

which forwards everything, but not in a Bcc: manner.

 
[Permalink] 3. Brock Sides wrote @ Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 4:27 pm CDT:

Interesting update over at Stinson’s blog: Signifying Nothing is firewalled in China.

 
[Permalink] 4. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 8:12 pm CDT:

Brock: That’s essentially what I’m using (well, except it goes to lordsutch instead of philarete).

As for the firewalling; yeah, Matt and I had a email conversation about it. It may just be the dynamic IP that SN is sitting on at the moment.

 
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