One more damn thing to do after prelims
Jul. 28th, 2012 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoySo the University of Michigan has switched to having all its email handled by Gmail! If there was any warning about this, I sure as hell missed it.
And sure, Gmail has IMAP access, of course, but it can't behave like just an ordinary IMAP server, no. It has to do its own crazy shit. And that potentially screws with my ability to do things client-side. Which is how they should be done. It's fricking email. The server shouldn't be doing weird things on its own.
Now I guess when you consider that Gmail is primarily a webmail service, this makes sense. But I have no intention of using it that way. Then why did I sign up for it, if I didn't want to use that? I didn't sign up for it voluntarily, the school just suddenly migrated my official school email account over to it!
To hell with this. Maybe, sometime after prelims, I'll just get a free email account somewhere else and forward everything to that. Anyone know one that *doesn't* insist on doing weird things on the server and that I can use like just a normal IMAP server?
I mean, OK, I might never get around to this -- consider that I still haven't gotten around to switching from Thunderbird, even though I *know* of better mail clients out there. Back when I first started using Linux back in middle school, I used Kmail. Then of course that didn't exist on Windows, and I used Thunderbird, which is (SFAICT) noticeably inferior. Somehow when I switched back to Linux again I... continued using Thunderbird? And still haven't taken the time to switch back? Yeah. (Also, anyone know anything that might be yet better than Kmail? I expect there's still room for improvement there.)
Tangential: I actually did open up Kmail today intending to switch over, then decided against it on the basis that I'd like to at least see what the hell's going on with just the one switch before I add an additional complication. Looking through the options, I notice it has an option for X-Face. (IIRC, back when I used it, you had to do that manually. But at least you could do that manually; with Thunderbird I don't think you can even do that sort of thing manually without an extension. Also, I think I'm misremembering and you didn't actually have to do it manually, because I think it could display them and taken together those don't make sense.)
Now I'd say, "Does anyone really use X-Face anymore?" But I noticed when looking through the Gmail settings that there was an option for "send a picture with your email". Somehow I doubt that was via X-Face -- I think most people would be pretty disappointed if they found they could only send black-and-white images -- but I have to wonder...
-Harry
And sure, Gmail has IMAP access, of course, but it can't behave like just an ordinary IMAP server, no. It has to do its own crazy shit. And that potentially screws with my ability to do things client-side. Which is how they should be done. It's fricking email. The server shouldn't be doing weird things on its own.
Now I guess when you consider that Gmail is primarily a webmail service, this makes sense. But I have no intention of using it that way. Then why did I sign up for it, if I didn't want to use that? I didn't sign up for it voluntarily, the school just suddenly migrated my official school email account over to it!
To hell with this. Maybe, sometime after prelims, I'll just get a free email account somewhere else and forward everything to that. Anyone know one that *doesn't* insist on doing weird things on the server and that I can use like just a normal IMAP server?
I mean, OK, I might never get around to this -- consider that I still haven't gotten around to switching from Thunderbird, even though I *know* of better mail clients out there. Back when I first started using Linux back in middle school, I used Kmail. Then of course that didn't exist on Windows, and I used Thunderbird, which is (SFAICT) noticeably inferior. Somehow when I switched back to Linux again I... continued using Thunderbird? And still haven't taken the time to switch back? Yeah. (Also, anyone know anything that might be yet better than Kmail? I expect there's still room for improvement there.)
Tangential: I actually did open up Kmail today intending to switch over, then decided against it on the basis that I'd like to at least see what the hell's going on with just the one switch before I add an additional complication. Looking through the options, I notice it has an option for X-Face. (IIRC, back when I used it, you had to do that manually. But at least you could do that manually; with Thunderbird I don't think you can even do that sort of thing manually without an extension. Also, I think I'm misremembering and you didn't actually have to do it manually, because I think it could display them and taken together those don't make sense.)
Now I'd say, "Does anyone really use X-Face anymore?" But I noticed when looking through the Gmail settings that there was an option for "send a picture with your email". Somehow I doubt that was via X-Face -- I think most people would be pretty disappointed if they found they could only send black-and-white images -- but I have to wonder...
-Harry
