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[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

GonzO have you forgotten that sometimes people require a email client if
their mail server doesn't support a web interface? People in these
discussion threads seem to want to rule out that people aren't using the
computer in the same way as themselves.

2011/5/26 GonzO <gonzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Bazon <bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Why should one give up a local E-mail client?
>
> I use anywhere from 3-10 computers in my average work day.
>
> In no way is it advantageous for me to install and configure a mail
> client on all of them.  Especially one using IMAP, which is like
> running web mail, but needing a specialized piece of software to do
> it.  And "website overhead" isn't really a reason, either (Google
> compresses everything such that the "overhead" is actually only a few
> kb.  You're wasting more resources launching thunderbird than you are
> using gmail in a browser).
>
> It's not that I think people should "give up" real mail clients; its
> that I literally see no point to them outside of using POP to have a
> local backup.
>
> --G
>
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