It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Email (2013)

Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by darklajid on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:03AM (#10771671)

Yes. I was using (al)pine for a while. It's bearable, okay even.

But I guess I don't see how you could turn that into a 'mobile' client. For the time I used pine I was ssh-ing into a box of mine for most of the day, while I was in front of a computer. I didn't care much about mail notifications on the go.

Now I do. If there's some (reliable! I don't care about the initial one-off effort) way to make that work with emails on the go, I'd be glad to learn about that.

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by vox_mollis on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:58PM (#10772341)

But I guess I don't see how you could turn that into a 'mobile' client

Solution to this is to remember what the purpose of email actually is. It's supposed to be asynchronous communication, with the expectation that it may be checked, at most, 1-3 times daily. If you need communication immediately and in any location, instant messaging covers that use case much better.

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by darklajid on Monday December 21, 2015 @03:28PM (#10773278)

We have to disagree about the purpose here.

For me mail is for async, coherent exchanges. IM is not a replacement: It is usually a conversation, usually short and short-lived and synchronous.

Async doesn't have to imply that I don't get a notification about your mail. It just means that I probably won't answer right away - or at least on my time.

Anyway: Mail plus ~instant~ notification is a thing for me and I don't want to give that up.

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