bottom posting with Gmail

[James Freer]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:41 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> On 31/03/13 10:28, James Freer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com <mailto:garyartista at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>     On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:wayward4now at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         On 03/30/2013 02:11 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
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>>>             Gmail's new compose feature does not give us a way to
>>>             bottom post. �Has
>>>             anyone found a solution?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Just use an email app, like Thundrbird?? Of course when you
>>>         reply you can just move your mouse cursor to the proper
>>>         position under the original post and reply from there. Ric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Good idea.� I find it easier to use gmail, perhaps just because I
>>>     am used to it and also because that is one less program I need
>>>     open� but T'bird is fine.�
>>>
>>>
>>>     garyk
>>>
>>>
>>> If one clicks on the left arrow one gets the pop window which gives more space for replies. I find it irritating that they've decided to do this - seems for those that have short emails whereas most of mine are long. I'll be going back to Alpine as an email client. I find Evolution and T'bird far too slow.
>>
>>
>> Thunderbird "far too slow"?!
>>
>> You just have to be pulling my leg, right?
>
> When i used T-bird back in 2008/2009 it was barely capable of coping
> with imap. Reading mail was just too slow. Different perhaps using pop
> but then again who uses pop now unless using offlineIMAP.
>
>> Ah, I know, you posted this 2 days too early - you really meant to post it on 1 April, right? :-D
>
> No... whitty!
>
>> But I shouldn't be making a joke out of this, and I apologise. I should have first asked what sort of computer you are using - the speed of the cpu, the amount or RAM and its speed, and the amount of HDD space you have. All of these, of course, will influence which applications you should be using to get maximum performance out of your system...
>>
>> BC
>
> vital statistics gosh.... well she's two years old, ram 4g, and 500gb
> drive ram (which i find a pain... rather have a 2nd drive for data and
> a smaller one just for the system).
>
> Maybe you're right and i should give the latest version a go. I looked
> at a few in 2009 and came to the conclusion that for gui email clients
> only Evolution and T-bird were worth looking at. Text email clients
> aren't to everyone's liking but Mutt and Alpine are remarkably fast by
> comparison on even a clunker pc. Balsa, Claws, sylpheed i couldn't get
> on with although Sylpheed was fastest i reckoned.
>
> What i liked about Alpine was that it could be set up to read email on
> the server rather than downloading headers. So one doesn't have a
> maildir or mbox to worry about when considering the new *buntu
> release... just copy over the .pinerc and all ready.
>
> Back on topic though.
>
> There is an app called yaws which i gather is a web client (i'm sure
> there are others but i haven't tried them) which would read mail
> effectively replacing the gmail UI. The other alternative if using
> Firefox (which i don't) is to use the addon 'It'sAllText'. The new UI
> with the popup window is just too narrow... maybe gmail will put this
> idea aside after a few more months. One can only hope they're tracking
> users and will see that most revert back to the old compose.
>
> james

Just had a look... it appears that a web client would be RoundCube,
Atmail, Zimbra but these require quite a lot of dependencies. So one
might as well stay with the main ones.

james