March 29, 2019
5:40 a.m.
Without getting into the pros and cons of mailing lists versus github versus discourse versus Stackoverflow versus ... On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 02:23:52PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
Have you ever actually convinced someone to move off Gmail onto some other client?
Gmail is an email provider with a web interface. As a provider, it is available on any email client, so long as it speaks POP3 or IMAP. It's even officially supported: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en (Perhaps I was a bit hasty earlier when I accused Google of trying to dumb *everything* down. Credit where credit is due.) I've never tried this myself, but I know of people who have. -- Steven