Re: email client popularity [was Webmail is implementation, not Internet

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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