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Posted by Ken
Nov 29, 2018 at 06:47 PM
washere wrote:
Half the time I do not use browsers for my email accounts. I used to use
>Bluemail on chromebook/android a lot but stopped as they’re still fairly
>anon and also were sending id/passwords un-encrypted. Never got into
>Aquamail on android.
>
>So now half the time I just use trusty old Thunderbird (Mozilla, old,
>free) on Windows. On it I got gmail accounts/yahoo/my websites domains
>etc. Has hundreds of plugins/themes/extensions, can set it up any way,
>much better than outlook imho. Hope this helps someone looking for a
>replacement for outlook.
I tend to just use the browser for Gmail, but a client might not be a bad idea. It is something to consider, but it does ad another layer to the mix.
—Ken
>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
>
>https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/extensions/
>
>
Posted by washere
Nov 30, 2018 at 01:04 AM
I themed it to be jet black all over, even the email contents, plus other plugins/extensions for all the email accounts inside, mostly my own domains/websites.
If you need help adding email accounts. configuring/applying the plugins/extensions etc., let me know. It is free, open source, safe, huge following so it will last for decades unlike many commercial or single dev closed apps. It keeps growing, can have chat, RSS, news client, etc etc.
Ken wrote:
washere wrote:
>Half the time I do not use browsers for my email accounts. I used to use
>>Bluemail on chromebook/android a lot but stopped as they’re still
>fairly
>>anon and also were sending id/passwords un-encrypted. Never got into
>>Aquamail on android.
>>
>>So now half the time I just use trusty old Thunderbird (Mozilla, old,
>>free) on Windows. On it I got gmail accounts/yahoo/my websites domains
>>etc. Has hundreds of plugins/themes/extensions, can set it up any way,
>>much better than outlook imho. Hope this helps someone looking for a
>>replacement for outlook.
>
>I tend to just use the browser for Gmail, but a client might not be a
>bad idea. It is something to consider, but it does ad another layer to
>the mix.
>
>—Ken
>>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
>>
>>https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/extensions/
>>
>>
Posted by Donovan
Nov 30, 2018 at 10:05 PM
For better or worse, I don’t mess with trying to manage by Gmail. The search is so good and almost instant that anything I need I can find in seconds. The Gmail filtering is also helpful when I have to use it. Too much time to manage it, but I know my method would drive many others crazy.
Posted by Donovan
Nov 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM
Donovan wrote:
For better or worse, I don’t mess with trying to manage by Gmail. The
>search is so good and almost instant that anything I need I can find in
>seconds. The Gmail filtering is also helpful when I have to use it. Too
>much time to manage it, but I know my method would drive many others
>crazy.
I meant manage MY Gmail - not BY Gmail.
Posted by Ken
Dec 16, 2018 at 12:55 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Hi Ken,
>
>I am using Gmail (the professional G Suite actually) with the Dark
>theme. I just checked and I do see a cursor, though it may not be as
>evident as in Outlook. It is a vertical blue line at the left of the
>last read message.
>
>I checked another account with the default white theme and did not see
>such a cursor. Curious.
>
>The cursor marks the last read message. If I delete the message, it then
>marks the one which was just above the one deleted.
Well, I finally got around to trying the Dark theme today on my desktop. Unfortunately, there is no blue vertical line visible anywhere. :(
—Ken