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My Big Dumb Webmail Client
They say you don’t know what email’s all about until you’ve built a webmail client of your own. I guess I kind of get it now.
I want to tell Google to eff off
I’m thinking of deleting my Google account. I’ve downloaded all my Gmail data. I know I have some services that use my old Gmail address. I need to think about how this might affect my interconnected system of Internet services that have dependencies on my Google account. Changing my email on services still using my Gmail is mostly trivial. I just have to remember/find out what all those services are. I can peruse through my Gmail archive that is mostly spam or unwanted email and see if there are any critical services I’d have to change my email address for. I figure going back about six months through my Gmail archive would suffice. Any entity that doesn’t contact me during a six month period likely doesn’t have any important tendrils attached, and I probably don’t want anything to do with them, either.
Big Email Energy
Why your favorite email newsletter (not Tedium) always gets cut off by your favorite webmail client. (It may be all the tracking stuff in the links!)
New Emails, Old Tech
How HTML helped, then hindered, the evolution of email, or why all those fancy marketing emails you get in your inbox still rely on HTML tables in 2019.
A Eulogy for Eudora
The early graphical client Eudora was how people checked their email in the ’90s. But in the end, only the power users stuck around. Here’s what you missed.