[Elecraft] A First Class Company
Don Wilhelm
donwilh at embarqmail.com
Mon Sep 30 16:37:50 EDT 2019
Finally, a post with a reasonable solution! - Use an email client on
your computer! Then it won't matter and you do not have to sign onto
several web based accounts.
I currently have 11 accounts that are handled by my email client
(Thunderbird). All incoming mail is sorted via filters into separate
folders under my inbox, so I have only a small amount of inbox
investigation and arrangement to do. As a result I have my own personal
"digest" on my computer.
I shudder to think how long it would take me to sign into each email
group using webmail.
Most of my accounts are handled as POP3 mail, and yes, I do look at my
email on more than one computer. I just tell Thunderbird to leave a
copy of all emails on the server for 7 days (unless I delete them), and
I can see all my email on any computer as long as I download the email
on each one at least once a week.
To me all my accounts look the same whether QTH.net, or groups.io or
gmail or other. I use plain text with all of them - no problems.
I do regularly delete emails that are more than 6 months old - but I
have to do that manually.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 9/30/2019 2:48 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
> Reflectors are like CW. They've been around almost as long as the
> Internet. The other term is "list server."
>
> The sender sends an E-Mail, and it goes out to the list. It's up to the
> individual mail system, and client, to deal with as they wish.
>
> Personally, as someone who actually ran mail systems for a few decades,
> I find it far easier to use a mail client running on my machine than it
> is do deal with a mail client running on a machine hundreds of
> milliseconds away, and wait for my share of that processor to send back
> an updated display.
>
> ... but then again, I've been dealing with list servers since the 90's,
> and pretty much hate the web-based analogs.
>
> But, as is often said on the Internet, YMMV.
>
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