Is T-Bird suitable for gmail from multiple devices?

[Phil Dobbin]

On 01/13/2013 07:33 PM, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 13 January 2013 17:11, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A recent posting extolling Thunderbird has me curious: I use gmail
>> exclusively, and like the fact that I get a consistent view from both
>> my desktop and my laptops.
>>
>> Can the same thing be said of T-bird?  The last I used such a tool was
>> about a decade ago, and whichever device saw mail first then hid it
>> from the others.  I could sure use a more mail-list friendly
>> interface...
> 
> With a single IMAP account, no rules or automatic filtering - or
> *just* server-side filtering - yes, it's doable.
> 
> But the reason I stopped using it was the inconvenience of using
> multiple devices.
> 
> Once I'd created my ~100 rules and ~80 folders on Gmail, well, I might
> as well just keep using Gmail, it seemed to me.


The folders are created for you. It's just the filters you have to redo
if you're using Gmail. Hardly a show stopper.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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