From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190602050758p2e386755j7bfb1e89e0cbc0ce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 02:58:07 +1100 From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] acme + mh In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <775b8d190602042241p1dbe4dck67a96b261c21fff7@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3531a5c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 the nice thing about gmail is that spam never gets downloaded. the bad thing about multiple mail reading programs is getting them to agree/work. gmail followed me around the world and will again soon. and if you get a message from "joe bloggs" saying "what about that mail i sent you last week" you can search spam for joe - maybe he used the word enlargement or something similar. brucee On 2/6/06, Russ Cox wrote: > > don't say Mac to me ... use gmail. > > the nice thing about imap is that you can use multiple mail > reading programs at once as long as you keep the data on > the server. so you can use os x mail or sylpheed or whatever > else when you absolutely need to, but acme mail (if you like it) > for most reading. that is, once there is a better imap upas/fs. > > right now i download my mail via pop3 from gmail and read > it using my hacked up acme mail+mh, but in a pinch i can still > go to gmail. > > russ >