On Sat, 2022-02-19 at 09:45 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > HostGator offers Google Workspaces but I don't want to have to move > 5 accounts to the new GW accounts and plus, just using HostGator's > default email service, I get unlimited accounts vs having to pay for > each one with GW. > > But then I started thinking this morning, WHY did I move to IMAP? I > only check my email on my computer. I had the new account set up on > my phone, but it got annoying to change accounts every time I open > the gmail app from the free account that i've had since 2015 and > don't use for anything to the new account for my domain. So I wound > up removing the new account off of my phone. You could probably consolidate your gmail accounts (if you wanted to), or at least pull mail from one to the other (again if you wanted to). Over the years I've accumulated a few email accounts, but long ago realised various problems with that: Choosing which address to tell to someone to contact me via, using email clients which didn't automatically reply using the same account details that the message came from, dealing with losing accounts I didn't want to lose (closing ISPs, etc), and the more accounts the more spam you receive. Of course there's arguments for the opposite: Erroneous spam detection can ruin an account. Services having technical gremlins don't stop you sending from a different account. It's useful to have different business and personal accounts, if you want to be able to dispose of a business, or have a business partner check business mail for you. It can be useful to have a mailing list account with filtering that ignores anything that didn't come from the mailing list (that's the one anti-spam technique I still trust to use). IMAP does let your mail get properly flagged as read, replied to, etc, even if you do only use it in one device. Remembering that /that/ one device may go through several software updates over time, so local handling of that kind of thing can get royally stuffed up. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
