Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by sitharus on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:45AM (#6068955)

I've been actively looking for alternatives recently after all their "improvements" kept breaking my flow.

Unfortunately there isn't much out there :/

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by pjmlp on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:15AM (#6069039)

I have been using my own email server since 2000.

For me, Gmail is only an email aggregator for my multiple email accounts. At home I keep on using a trusty desktop IMAP client.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by maqr on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:50AM (#6070922)

I'm actually fine using IMAP, but I really don't want to run my own dovecot/exim/spamassassin servers. It's really inconvenient and really hard to filter out spam. What I need is a hosted IMAP/SMTP service that does spam filtering. I'd prefer not to stay on gmail and use their imap/smtp, but that might be the short term solution.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by minikites on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:46AM (#6069150)

Fastmail is pretty great.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by mbesto on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:18AM (#6069246)

I've just noticed the praise recently for this. Two dealbreakers for me:

- No push on iPhone (as far as I can see)

- No Calendar integration

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by minikites on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:24AM (#6069627)

Yeah, Apple doesn't support IMAP-IDLE which is a drag, so push is out. And you're right, there's no calendar. I also hear LDAP is read-only on devices, so you can't add to your Fastmail address book from your iPhone.

I personally don't use any of those things anyway but I can definitely understand why that would be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. It's great for email and the webmail interface got way better recently. Their blog is also pretty neat, they go into a fair bit of technical detail about new features and how they solved certain bugs: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/11/26/inter-tab-communication-u...

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by iandundas on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:58AM (#6070551)

I closed my google account today after spending a few weeks migrating. Try fruux for calendar and contact sync, it's hosted in Germany and I'm happy with it

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by da_n on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:18AM (#6069055)

Have you tried Fastmail?

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by bbrks on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:46AM (#6068958)

Likewise, I've been thinking about moving away from Google Apps for a while and this may be the push that I needed.

Anybody have any suggestions? Self-hosted or otherwise.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by JonnieCache on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:58AM (#6068993)

http://www.roundcube.net/ is generally agreed to be the best webmail system. It's OSS.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by chalst on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:11AM (#6069227)

I don't know about "generally agreed", but it has been adopted by Kolab and Mountain Lion as their email front-end, which I count as substantial votes of confidence in the product.

I'm resistant to adopting this kind of technology: I'm no security guru, but the idea of having Apache/PHP invoking Postfix directly as an executable (i.e., not via SMTP/ whatever) makes me feel nervous.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by Joeboy on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:38AM (#6069304)

> the idea of having Apache/PHP invoking Postfix directly as an executable (i.e., not via SMTP/ whatever) makes me feel nervous.

I don't know much about roundcube, but afaik it works by talking to your SMTP/IMAP servers.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by JonnieCache on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:57AM (#6069367)

>I don't know about "generally agreed"

Fair point. Perhaps "often agreed" would be better.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by modernerd on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:15AM (#6069038)

I've been happy with http://atmailcloud.com/ It's $10/month for 5 email accounts, multi-domain support, with calendaring and contacts too.

Email aliases don't count against the 5 account limit, and you can have as many as you like on whatever domains you like. Adding a domain doesn't use up an account slot, so you can set up forwarding addresses for multiple domains for no extra cost.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by nawitus on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:35AM (#6069120)

Yeah, I'll definately start searching for a good alternative. This is just unacceptable.

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