Dude! Where’s my MUA?!
May 20th 5 commentsThanks to email aliases and Gmail I’m able to completely discard my email client. My email is now web based. No more POP or IMAP for me sonny-Jim! I get all my email forwarded to my Gmail account and let it take care of the spam and the filters and contacts and pretty much everything my old email client used to do.
It’s very liberating to be able to throw away an application that used to be the basis of my online life. Without email (and therefore the email client) I would have completely lost touch with most of my buddies from back home. (I know there’s IM - but living down here in NZ it very hard to get my mates to stay up and chat to me…or vice versa.)
The next thing I need to eradicate from my life is my RSS reader. I use Thunderbird to keep track of all the blogs and news sites I read…but I now realise i don’t need it any more.
So - what’s the best web based RSS reader?
Looks like Zawodny agrees with you
I’m picking that it’s only faster than the desktop for him because he’s using the internet in the US where the internet really is fast.
I really dont have any problems with the spead of GMail. For me it behaves a _lot_ better than Thunderbird did. For some reason Thunderbird has real problem with IMAP - it would connect once, when I opened the application and never again - so each time I wanted to ‘check my imap mail’ i had to restart it. Not very streamlined.
Gmail always works.
Yeah Thunderbird sucks for speed. You’re right that email should be web-based, but I’m not completely sold on gmail yet, remember Hotmail was top dog at one time. I think I’ll let the early adopters beta test for me before I convert completely. I’ve still got one hand on the desktop :)
Sounds like a good idea really.
but this means if Gmail goes down (as it has a few times in the recent past)
you are screwed
I agree with Sean about waiting a while before going totally web based
Yeah - there is always that problem…I’ve not noticed too much of an issue with uptime, however.
The internet is only going to get stronger and bigger - how exciting.