[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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