The title I’ve give this post is the subject line from the mailing list Rands has set up. Since the death of Google Reader a few months ago, and despite the fact that I set up my own aggregator and native client pair, having a busy work and home life means that aggregators as a separate port of call just don’t get a look in...

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So, my Google account is still disabled a week later and I still haven’t had a response to the two mails I’ve sent the accounts team. My blog was powered by Blogger. I’ve switched to WordPress and hope to import all of my old blog sometime this week (I’ll have to screen-scrape my own blog archives). In related news I was using Gmail to power my email, but was using my own domain to forwa...

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My work webmail is provided by IMP. This bit is wildly wrong but is what I saw for a variety of Greasemonkey-related reasons. Like Gmail it provides keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you might want to do with an email. Unfortunately,

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Although I’ve been using Thunderbird at work now for almost a year, the only extension I’ve had installed has been Lightning to display my work calendar. Yesterday that changed, and I’m really glad. I’ve installed a few excellent extensions: Quote Colurs adds inline colouring to n...

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Any mail I receive that only contains Russian characters is spam. Ditto for Asian languages. Either Gmail‘s spam filter has been loosened, or the spammers are getting better, but I’m getting a lot more spam in my Gmail inbox these days. Oh well.

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One of the big things about Gmail is supposed to be how it deals with messages and threads. Everything is a “conversation“. There’s no flat view of all your mails. Except I don’t have any say in what’s a conversation and what’s not – it’s all worked out by Gmail. The machine is overlaying what it thinks is going on to what...

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Having not used it for about four years, I’m slightly scared by the ease with which I remembered all of the keyboard shortcuts in Pine (in fact I knew some of the shortcuts without consciously trying to remember them). Pine was the standard Uni email client at the University...

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Next time I want my junk mail settings changed without being asked, and thus having hundreds of mails dropped straight into my junk mail folder which is completely inaccessible except via the web site, I’ll know just where to go! Lucky your “this is not junk” feature is so lame, too!

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I hate Outlook. I don’t think I mention this nearly enough.

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