[OT] Email Recommendations

[tekki]

I could be a loner on this one... a little bit weird even.


But I'd recommend Gmail.

[Nicky H]

You're all wrong

Go for gmail

Especially if you have an android phone - although should work on a iPlop - never owned one so can't say for sure

[Chelan]

Haha, you guys are great. So just a wild guess that y'all like gmail huh? I was beginning to wonder where everyone went, but I guess many people had extended holidays.

I guess besides the new UI, my concern with Gmail would be them wanting too much personal information from me (such as your phone number just to sign up). Anyone encounter this or think too much of it? I'm a bit paranoid about the big brother effect I guess.

bumtsch - with gmail being used as a full email client were you referring to a program like Apple's mail app? I use an iphone so I know gmail would push to that ok. Do you find their "labels" awkward at all compared to folders?

[photojojo]

Labels are a little different to get used to, but now that I have I like them. The filters you can set up are pretty powerful and of course searching through nearly eight years of email is scary easy.

[bumtsch]

Yeah, I did mean setting it up in like Mail, or Thunderbird or whatever you fancy.

Labels are a little different to get used to, but now that I have I like them. The filters you can set up are pretty powerful and of course searching through nearly eight years of email is scary easy.

This. Although mapping gmail's folders to IMAP folders can be a little messy and offline syncing required too much fiddling around to limit mail file sizes on my pc, I ended up hardly using this.

I can see your point wrt. privacy, but I'm afraid I can't help you much there - I did create a third account last spring, don't remember having to enter my digits there but I can't be sure that I didn't, and have no idea whether it's required now.
In the end it doesn't matter anymore because I gave them the number when setting up the the two-factor authentication scheme so I can ask to receive an access token via sms.