{"id":5013,"date":"2013-01-14T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2013-01-14T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:07:57","slug":"e-mail-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=5013","title":{"rendered":"E-mail Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I need to get with the times or something but I&#8217;ve always enjoyed using Yahoo for e-mail verses gmail even though I have accounts with both. In fact, I have far too many email accounts and it&#8217;s staring to get to me. I recently contemplated trying to consolidate accounts but I do like having my accounts separated as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Account for immediate family which I also use for most websites I sign up at<\/li>\n<li>Account for friends and colleagues (since I&#8217;ve never used my work email address for personal matters)<\/li>\n<li>Account for recruiters and job hunting\/applications<\/li>\n<li>Account for my photo site<\/li>\n<li>Account for selling stuff on Craigslist<\/li>\n<li>Misc accounts on gmail when I contemplating switching to their more robust service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the main reasons I&#8217;ve hesitated to really use my gmail accounts is I heard what is deleted isn&#8217;t really gone from the servers. Of course that could hold true for Yahoo as well but I was comfortable just leaving everything with Yahoo until recently when they updated their mail yet again. Now when I type a message there&#8217;s this huge delay between what I&#8217;ve typed and what appears on screen. Even worse is half the time what I&#8217;ve type doesn&#8217;t appear at all. How frustrating! <\/p>\n<p>Today I went on a hunt to find an email client I could use to manage all my email accounts and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a>. It&#8217;s a bit early for a final verdict, but I do like a lot of things about it and some things are just annoying. <\/p>\n<p>First, the things I like &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It supports multiple email accounts (and I can add a column called &#8220;Account&#8221; so I am constantly aware of which account I&#8217;m in when browsing messages).<\/li>\n<li>I can set it up as IMAP so all the email is retained on the server but use the interface to &#8220;clean up&#8221; my folders.<\/li>\n<li>Composing an email does away with that hellish delay I get when trying to write an email directly in yahoo mail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now the things I don&#8217;t like &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It errors out more than not when trying to access and download new mail. This is a fundamental action so it&#8217;s perplexing to me why this continues to happen.<\/li>\n<li>There isn&#8217;t a way, from what I can tell thus far, to use a master inbox for all email accounts so you&#8217;re not constantly switching back and forth as new messages come in.<\/li>\n<li>Whenever I click on an email account it insists on expanding the account so I see all the underlying folders which means I can&#8217;t see all the other email accounts at a quick glance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did install an extension called QuickFolders that I used to create short-cuts to each account&#8217;s inbox, but you&#8217;d think there would be a better way to manage multiple accounts. I am willing to bet the majority of people use more than one email address on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>So if anyone can recommend a better email client to manager multiple accounts I&#8217;m all ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I need to get with the times or something but I&#8217;ve always enjoyed using Yahoo for e-mail verses gmail even though I have accounts with both. In fact, I have far too many email accounts and it&#8217;s staring to get to me. I recently contemplated trying to consolidate accounts but I do like having my accounts separated as follows: Account for immediate family which I also use for most websites I sign up at Account for friends and colleagues (since I&#8217;ve never used my work email address for personal matters) Account for recruiters and job hunting\/applications Account for my photo site Account for selling stuff on Craigslist Misc accounts on gmail when I contemplating switching to their more robust service One of the main reasons I&#8217;ve hesitated to really use my gmail accounts is I heard what is deleted isn&#8217;t really gone from the servers. Of course that could <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=5013\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}