Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

KingDingbat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Considering labels are very non-standard, which caused trouble over IMAP since forever, I wouldn’t count on that part.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Labels are displayed as folders on IMAP, which means that a single message could appear in multiple folders. Are there any other problems you’re talking about?

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    • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      One of the problems that annoyed me in the past is the complexity and ambiguity of deleting an email over IMAP. Depending on whether it’s the last label of the deleted email, deleting an email from a label’s directory either removes a label from this email, or actually deletes the email.

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• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Please archive shit. It’s OK to save old data, but not on the service. There are ways. Even banks, the most obsessive and legally strapped data hoarders keep their 5+ year old data in deep cold storage, away from the active services. 99.9^% of information that old won’t be looked at by anyone.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not true.

    It’s much easier to keep old data in active storage where it can be classified, searched, and have retention/deletion policies applied. Moving it elsewhere makes it more likely you’ll just hang onto it forever while not using it at all.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      When was the last time you had to find a 20 year old email? Share your anecdotes.

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      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t disagree that you should set up retention policies to delete old email, I disagree that you should remove old emails from primary service/storage.

        I actually did need a 15 year old email a few months ago. I don’t recall what I needed, but I then set up a retention policy to delete old stuff.

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      • Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Warranty… Some are 15-20 years, but you need proof of purchase docs, which are often emailed data.

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