[Asterisk-Users] OT - Experience using Gmail for Asterisk Mailing List

[Marconi Rivello]

I too am using gmail for the asterisk lists. And also recommend it...

PS: The built in spell checker is very nice too :).

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:34:12 +0900, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists
<benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> for those who are unhappy with whatever mail reader arrangement they
> have reading the mailing list, I'd like to share my experience using
> Gmail, which I have been using for about a week or so now.
> 
> I find Gmail to be excellent for the mailing list. It doesn't feel
> like a web mail application at all. The threading works perfectly.
> Responding to the list keeps the threads intact. It filters out the
> HTML bits so I don't have to wade through all that HTML anymore. It
> even hides extensive quoting and gives me a little link that reads
> "show quoted text" where the quoted text exceeds a certain number of
> lines. If you click on that, it will reveal the quoted text and give
> you a link underneath that reads "hide quoted text".
> 
> Instead of mailfolders, Gmail has what is called labels. This works
> almost like mailfolders but has the advantage that messages can be
> attached to more than one label, in other words it is like messages
> being present in multiple mailfolders at once. This comes in very
> handy when you want to keep most of the mailing list content and find
> things later on because you can attach each message multiple labels
> which you create yourself and for which you can define filter rules.
> 
> I guess the 1GB mailbox capacity will be sufficient to keep me going
> for a while without having to delete any messages.
> 
> The advertising Google is showing on the rightmost coloumn is actually
> helpful because it relates to the content of the message or the thread
> you are looking at. Most of it looks like stuff you would actually be
> interested to visit if the message or thread is what you are
> interested in.
> 
> Since I use this account for the Asterisk mailing lists only, I sent
> everything that's not showing the mailing list headers nor asterisk in
> the subject line or body straight to the trash folder, so I guess spam
> won't be an issue when it starts coming in. I have noticed though that
> there are legitimate mailing list messages which ended up in the Spam
> folder and it's not because of the filters I put in place - must be a
> Gmail thing. So far there are 15 false positives out of 250 total.
> Will have to send feedback to Google about that.
> 
> Overall, I find Gmail to be an excellent solution for the Asterisk
> mailing lists -- and by extension for any other mailing lists, too.
> So, if you know somebody who could invite you and you are not happy
> using your regular email or some other webmail which breaks the
> threading like Yahoo does, I recommend you bother them for an
> invitation and try Gmail ;-)
> 
> rgds
> benjk
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> NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists
> may get trashed.
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