Will icecat and or iceweasel and or iceape and or icedove be packaged for Ubuntu Linux

[Bret Busby]

On 05/04/2021, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 18:48, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I've never used gmail so I didn't know there was a paid version. What do
>> you get extra that makes it worth paying for?
>
> Subs are very broadly for the whole Google Apps system, but the thing
> I paid for is mainly storage. For about US$20 a year I get a bit over
> 100GB storage instead of 17GB, which I'd filled up.
>
> https://one.google.com/about/plans
>
> I don't use Google Drive much, as I am partly Linux-based and there's
> no native client. I do use Google Photos a bit.
>
> But I'm a heavy user of Gmail, and I do actually have over 17GB of
> email. I also use Google Calendar and Google Contacts heavily (>5000
> contacts) but mainly it was for email storage.
>
> I was working on moving archives onto other free services, sending
> some stuff to Hotmail instead of Gmail and so on, but my G/F pointed
> out that it was days of work, when the cost is fairly small and these
> days I can easily afford it.
>
> It also reduces the chances that Google will decide to randomly close
> my account on me, which is a thing that they do.
>
>

Just out of interest, whilst the thread has well and truly lost its
way and completely digressed from the original question, on the alpine
mailing list, some people refer to using alpine for downloading their
email from gmail, which is possibly a path that you could have taken,
free of charge, to save your goggle email account contents, without
having had to pay the google borg.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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