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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service (www.forbes.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I have a 20ish year old history in my Gmail account organized in labels and all that. I wonder if it will be viable to migrate?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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

    Edit: I'm not being snarky, there are legitimate and more functional solutions.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Why not having an archive of exclusively warranties? Emails can be downloaded, indexed and compressed. I agree on keeping archives of old stuff. But emails used as cloud drives are a huge problem for IT and security reasons. A legal folder is better and facilitates backup, encryption and much more accessibility.

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