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Me and my IMAP accounts

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The least I can say is that I like e-mail. I like it so much that I have been accumulating so many different e-mail accounts recently, that reading my mails was becoming horrible. That's why I decided to group all my mails on a single e-mail account, and by the way, begin to use IMAP: indeed, I have been using POP (and SSH+mutt, it's true) until now.

I first thought the best solution was to use Gmail: I like Gmail web interface very much, it gives a lot of storage, allows user defined filters, and I can use it in IMAP with any IMAP client. I could even use a custom e-mail address, since Google Apps for your domain is free of charge. Well, in fact, it's complicated... 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 April 2008 00:50 ) Read more...