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Re:Gmail was down by aryastark on Friday January 24, 2014 @02:44PM (#7117417)
My brain hurts from contemplating what you wrote.

The point of gmail is that they take the configuration and headache of maintaining a mail server away from you. If you're okay with running your own qmail/sendmail, then there are vastly better open source UI options than gmail. Google didn't invent email. They just run some of the world's largest mail servers as a (mostly) free service.

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Re:Gmail was down by hueving on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:50PM (#7117910)
>there are vastly better open source UI options than gmail.

Really? Because I haven't found a web front-end as good. Otherwise I am happy running my own mail server.

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Re:Gmail was down by aryastark on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:15PM (#7118508)
I don't consider a web UI as anything more than a temporary workaround for when I don't have a native mail client around. They all tend to suck. Even gmail's. Try roundcube if you must.
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