[OT] Need new email client

On 24 July 2013 10:33, Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Gmail has gone off the deep end. All of the commit messages are being
> automatically hidden behind a "Promotions" tab which I can't fathom wanting
> in the first place. That's what the Spam folder is for, and commit messages
> don't go there.

You can restore your sanity (as I did) by removing all those rubbish tabs.

That doesn't address all the other FNORD problems with Gmail, of course.

frank

On 13-07-24 05:37 , Jon Hylands wrote:
> If you set up labels (folders), and create filters to explicitly put
[snip]
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]>wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 July 2013 10:33, Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Gmail has gone off the deep end. All of the commit messages are being
>>>> automatically hidden behind a "Promotions" tab which I can't fathom
>>> wanting
>>>> in the first place. That's what the Spam folder is for, and commit
>>> messages
>>>> don't go there.
[snip]

I use Thunderbird on the Mac, and connect to my gmail address (and
others) through imap.  I didn't even know there _was_ a promotions tab :).

Regards,

--
Tom Rushworth

I think Tom meant to say that though Thunderbird doesn't default to
bottom posting, it is an easy to set option (as is non-HTML mail)

As he said, it does IMAP quite well, and seems to understand Gmail's
unique interpretation of IMAP well enough.

Shame we don't have maintainers for Squeak email any more - but email
interoperability is a complex and almost thankless task.

I can also recommend mutt as a full screen text console client for
SMTP/POP3 though when I tried it with IMAP it seemed to choke on my
giant Gmail Inbox.

David

David Corking wrote:

> Shame we don't have maintainers for Squeak email any more - but email
> interoperability is a complex and almost thankless task.

Do you mean Celeste? That is what I am typing this in, so naturally I
have to patch it about once a month when a new message arrives that
breaks it. SInce I am always in the middle of something else when this
happens, I don't do it right and don't think the resulting code should
be a part of the resulting distribution.

Yesterday, for example, I had to change RFC2047MimeConverter>>mimeDecode
to:

mimeDecode
        "Do conversion reading from mimeStream writing to dataStream. See
String>>decodeMimeHeader"

        | c d |
        [mimeStream atEnd] whileFalse: [
                c := mimeStream next.
                c = $=
                        ifTrue: [ d _ (mimeStream next ifNil: [$0]) digitValue * 16
                                + (mimeStream next ifNil: [$0]) digitValue.
                                      d > 0 ifTrue: [c _ Character value: d]]
                        ifFalse: [c = $_ ifTrue: [c := $ ]].
                dataStream nextPut: c].
        ^ dataStream
       
because I was getting emails with subjects which had invalid characters
after a "=". The original code would try to send #digitValue to nil.
This is not the right fix. Practically none of my changes are. But I
think that the right thing would be a complete rewrite and will keep it
limping along until I can find the time to do that.

-- Jecel

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Casey Ransberger
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Gmail has gone off the deep end. All of the commit messages are being
> automatically hidden behind a "Promotions" tab which I can't fathom wanting
> in the first place. That's what the Spam folder is for, and commit messages
> don't go there.

Simply turn off using the tabs.  Click the "+" button (I think, it's
been a few days since I turned mine off), and then uncheck all the
tabs.  It'll be the same good ol'e GMail you've known for years.