google collects mobile phone numbers!?!

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
i can do that the last 4 years with mozilla and thunderbird....

hold on, i can do that with horde as well (for a couple years too)....

email clients had "thread view" years ago before google discovered "conversations"

When you use at least 3 computers on a daily basis to handle email, you don't exactly have an option to use Outlook/Thunderbird. And no, IMAP sucks. Hard.

If you like clients so much, turn on POP3 support in gmail and use that in a client.

[MarkG]

actually, i use 2 computers on a daily basis. i use thunderbird at home and horde at work

[binTravkin]

Google knows that, so it made sure that the UI was fast, instantanous, like Asher said, it doesn't function like a webpage

IT's JS/XMLHTTPRequest based as most of the things Google makes (the most notable being famous Google Suggest).

EDIT: For those who're not Web developers:

JS = JavaScript - front-end language useful to make web pages more dynamic without using more advanced features like Macromedia Flash for example.

XMLHHTPRequest (as well as Msxml2.XMLHTTP and Microsoft.XMLHTTP for IE) is internal Java Script object which allows for connecting/data transfer without reloading of a page, thus creating more dynamic GUI (feels like a program on your machine).

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
actually, i use 2 computers on a daily basis. i use thunderbird at home and horde at work

To access the same mailbox? How do you deal with having two inboxes/sent folders/etc across two computers?

[binTravkin]

To access the same mailbox? How do you deal with having two inboxes/sent folders/etc across two computers?

You can set it up so that your local mailboxes act as "mirrors" of the online one opposed to being the main acting figures.
Just tick out option "delete after downloading" and some other minor ones and you've got the same.

[Asher]

Originally posted by binTravkin
You can set it up so that your local mailboxes act as "mirrors" of the online one opposed to being the main acting figures.
Just tick out option "delete after downloading" and some other minor ones and you've got the same.

Yeah, but then you're downloading entire messages to two computers and leaving copies on the mail server, which is messy...

[binTravkin]

Yeah, but then you're downloading entire messages to two computers and leaving copies on the mail server, which is messy...

Messy or not depends on you.
If it's enforced by mail software settings that the online mailbox is the master and your locals are the slaves, they do not make any mess on their own.
You might be making it though..