Waving the white flag

[gfish]

After 9+ years of running my own mail server, I have given up. Spam wins. I switched the MX record for cyphertext.net to point to gmail today. Goodbye, Gnus. I'll miss you. (Though it really was past time for me to join this decade.)

Comments

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could have used POP3, it just seemed kind of silly. And I need to be able to handle attachments better anyway, so it seemed like a good time to switch to a modern client.

Setting it up was quite easy. Just had to prove I controlled the domain by posting a magic cookie file on the web, then create accounts. You can list aliases for each account, and set it up so they can each send as multiple addresses. Quite slick, so far.

[mdlbear]

I actually prefer a client that doesn't show HTML by default and sorts mail into folders automagically, though it would certainly be easier for the other users in the house.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I do notice the lack of folders, but they do have "labels", which are like tags on Livejournal, and you can set up filters to automagically add those. Then you can click so that you see only things with that label.

So it's *like* having folders in that you can sort to see just those messages, but unlike having folders in that those messages aren't out of sight when you're looking at your main inbox. (I'm still poking about at it. It may have a 'view only unlabeled messages' view, in which case that would be like seeing only the stuff you haven't sorted out.)

[mdlbear]

My inbox gets full enough that seeing old messages would be a complete dealbreaker. Things get lost in folder space enough as it is.

There's also that little matter of a dozen years' worth of archived email that would get disconnected from its future...