Why kernel development still uses email [LWN.net]

Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 14, 2016 17:49 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Why kernel development still uses email by spaetz
Parent article: Why kernel development still uses email

Personally, I just hide the problematic labels from IMAP altogether (All Mail and Sent in particular). I just set Fcc to be INBOX and it has worked well enough for me.

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Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 15, 2016 15:03 UTC (Sat) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link] (4 responses)

Yes, you can do that but it (mostly) prevents you from using gmail in typical gmail fashion, using its features. :-)

Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 15, 2016 18:38 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I guess? Then again, I also tend to completely delete email I no longer need rather than archive it at all *shrug*. What use cases do they really enable other than "all email I've ever received ever"?

Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 19, 2016 16:13 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

Why do you want to do that?

I have all my email locally in Thunderbird, and use gmail solely as an IMAP server. Why would I want to do anything else?

(Also, gmail is useful for sending mail when I'm away from home, though I've discovered it seems to tamper with the "reply to" which is a damn nuisance!!! If I use the gmail server to send mail, I do NOT want it setting replies to go to my gmail account unless I ASK FOR IT!!!)

Cheers,
Wol

Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 19, 2016 17:48 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link] (1 responses)

> Why do you want to do that?

> I have all my email locally in Thunderbird, and use gmail solely as an IMAP server. Why would I want to do anything else?

Err, because I maintained OfflineImap and - believe it or not - most users of the gmail backend were actually using Google and were not happy to just use it as an imap backend?

*I* don't use gmail at all but most users actually do, at least the support issues we received suggested that.

Why kernel development still uses email

Posted Oct 19, 2016 19:12 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I don't doubt that people wanted something more, but I guess I've never really wanted more (other than Gmail to recognize "move"). Looking at my configuration for offlineimap, I see that the local repos are marked as `GmailMaildir` and the remotes as `IMAP`. What features am I missing (with and without my "All Mail" and "Sent" exclusions)?