Is T-Bird suitable for gmail from multiple devices?

[James Freer]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 January 2013 17:11, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A recent posting extolling Thunderbird has me curious: I use gmail
>> exclusively, and like the fact that I get a consistent view from both
>> my desktop and my laptops.
>>
>> Can the same thing be said of T-bird?  The last I used such a tool was
>> about a decade ago, and whichever device saw mail first then hid it
>> from the others.  I could sure use a more mail-list friendly
>> interface...
>
> With a single IMAP account, no rules or automatic filtering - or
> *just* server-side filtering - yes, it's doable.
>
> But the reason I stopped using it was the inconvenience of using
> multiple devices.
>
> Once I'd created my ~100 rules and ~80 folders on Gmail, well, I might
> as well just keep using Gmail, it seemed to me.
> --
> Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile

I don't quite follow the gist of this post. I used the gmail UI for
some years and found it excellent particularly as a school teacher
when i would log into different machines to read mail. The gmail UI is
the best i've come across... there isn't really much cause for using a
mail client.

For the last couple of years i have to confess i find the adverts a
pain and tried T-bird and Evolution. I have to say i found them slow
on imap... and then discovered Alpine. A text email client is well
worth using and in Alpine's case it's a tried and proven University
mailing client with widespread international use. With Ubuntu releases
each six months all one has to do is save one's .pinerc file and mail
will be available without further setting up each release. I use it
'remotely' i.e. i don't download the headers... just looks on the
server - with would be what you require for several machines. It's
that simple and i can send you my .pinerc if you want to have a look.
It's quite easy to set up though and the alternative text email client
Mutt may be to your liking for configurability but took me about a
week to get working properly. Alpine has a wonderful help file and i
love it... although some ways of doing things are a bit dated now but
no bugs , glitches or whatever.

I still use the gmail UI sometimes (like for this reply) as i'd seen
24 posts and wanted to read them though in order - forget graphical
email clients they're too slow.

james