krait: a sea snake (krait) swimming (Default)
[personal profile] krait
I'm getting fed up with Gmail's increasing ridiculousnesses (the latest being some kind of inescapable auto-redirect to an advertisement... for Gmail - when I'm trying to sign in); recommendations for other email options would be very welcome!

Things I really want in an email service:
+ ability to tag emails for searching
+ threading 'conversations' like Gmail does
+ NO continual introduction of new features that nobody wants (like the recent "Categories" shenanigans Gmail has put everyone through)
+ privacy policy better than Google's "we record everything, give us your personal data!" (So, possibly based somewhere outside the U.S. and its absurd levels of nonprotection laws.)

It'd also be nice if it:
- didn't continually ask me to provide personal, RL info (can you tell I hate Gmail's persistence in asking for my phone number? Even pickup artists aren't this persistent, Google!)
- didn't have a terribly long url
- is easy to create multiple accounts with
- allowed me to import everything in my Gmail account


Thank you all!

Date: 2013-10-29 02:16 pm (UTC)
ursula: bear eating salmon (Default)
From: [personal profile] ursula
Do you specifically want a webmail setup? You can get a lot of the features you want by using an old-fashioned email client like Thunderbird with IMAP, but that's only practical if you consistently check email using only a few devices, or don't mind differences in interface depending on where you are.

Date: 2013-10-30 12:06 am (UTC)
laurajv: Holmes & Watson's car is as cool as Batman's (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurajv
even with a client, one still gets crapped on by Google if using Gmail; I've been using a traditional client for years but certain new features in Gmail alter its behavior. (I am particularly not-fond of how they recently altered the "Important" tag, the jagoffs.) You *can*, if you switch to a traditional client, suck all your messages out of gmail for yourself, or at least keep ready access to them while switching everything you care about away from that account.

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