Re: email client popularity [was Webmail is implementation, not Internet architecture (was Re: Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.)]

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Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

I am still looking for a calendar program written by someone who understands that there are multiple time zones and that when I travel from one time zone to another I probably want to get up at different times etc without having the change affect appointments when I return.

Seriously, is it so difficult for someone to understand that when setting a recurring appointment it is necessary to be able to specify the time zone so that the correct daylight savings adjustments are made?

I gave up waiting for those features in Outlook after waiting ten years. But they do indicate just how 'STUCK' software gets.

That's odd - time zones and daylight savings time just seem to work in all the calendars that I use - (including Outlook and my out-of-the-box Android smartphone)


As for being a low volume mail user, I am currently using 10Gb of my 15Gb free Gmail allowance. The reason I use Gmail to do my IETF mail is that I can't wait half an hour for IMAP or POP to sync each time I want to read mail.

I don't give my work email out nearly as often as my gmail account which means that I get my corporate email in an acceptable length of time.

Hmmm.... my mailbox alone gets maybe 5000 emails a day - a lot of it spam of course, but a lot of list traffic and admin messages (I'm postmaster for our system as well as admin for a bunch of email lists). The mail on my laptop client (SeaMonkey) and my smartphone are pretty much always up to date, and if I boot my laptop cold, a few thousand messages will update within a minute or so. If it takes you half an hour to sync IMAP then you're doing something very wrong.

Miles Fidelman

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra





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