I like to keep only my most current emails in my actual email account, everything else goes into the archives. It presents a neater division of materials for my messy mind.
I export all the emails as .eml files occasionally - in case something goes bad with MailStore's db (it's Firebird and maybe I just don't know enough about it, but I don't quite trust it).
This #Mastodon / #email bridge <https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/110340426573847934> by @nkizz is just brilliant, but you know what would absolutely ROCK? A #Fediverse server that had native support for #IMAP.
While we're on the topic, I wonder if anybody has thought about building a client with an UX inspired by Usenet newsreaders (personally, MicroPlanet Gravity was one of the few things I missed from Windows when I switched to Linux, would love to see something like that for Mastodon.)
I was reading my Gmail and clicked on what I thought was an email from American Home Shield. It turns out it was an ad (Gmail has started embedding them in one's message list, I guess(?))
Within 5-10 minutes, I get a call from American Home Shield saying: We've noticed you're interested in our service. I hadn't even filled out a form or anything.
I just clicked on an email and got a sales call. This is peak Google, and a darn good reason to use Protonmail.
Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!
We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.
Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!
Graphs of the sizes of fediverse instances, how common they are, and where the most people are! 🧵
Data pulled from https://instances.social/ (by @TheKinrar) and excludes pawoo and baraag as they're heavily blocked for good reasons (it seems)
Breaking down instances by the number of users into bins (that are quasi human friendly logarithmic), we see that the majority (55%) have 2-50 users, ~33% have 1 user, and almost all instances have less than 5,000 users.
Yesterday I moved my personal #email to #tutanota (after #selfhosting it for a few months). Such a smooth experience. Everything just works ™️. Not that I had any problems with my VPS and #mailinabox. Just decided I want more peace of mind. Plus it's way cheaper. 12 EUR per year? C'mon, I couldn't ask for a better offer 🤩
@m2m now allows you to share a post by #email directly from #Mastodon. You just have to mention the #bot with an email address under a post (do it privately) and it will email the indicated address with a link to the post.
Benefits ? No need to leave the app, some apps don't have sharing options, the email includes a link to invite the person to join Mastodon, not everyone has their email configured in an app that allows sharing on the device they use.
iPhone Tip, Do you have multiple email accounts, and when you get that sound that you received a new email, you do not know from what account? You can set up a different sound for each email account, and here's how.
1, Go to settings / Mail.
2, Choose the notifications button.
3, Choose last button on the screen, customize notifications.
4, On this screen, you will find a list of the email accounts you have on your phone.
5, Double Tap on the first account name.
6, Swipe until you hear sound and the sound name. Just double tap that to bring up the list of available sounds to choose from.
7, Note. By double tapping a sound, it will play and select it as your choice. So after double tapping your choice, just hit the back button to take you back to the previous screen, and that sound will then be listed as the sound for that particular email account.
8, Just follow the same process to pick a sound for each of your email accounts. #iPhone#Tip#Email#Account#Sound
You know, when I was thinking about posting something about my wish for an #email -like client to #Mastodon, it was initially intended as a reference to me being a completionist, not about #spam. Now, not so sure anymore.
News for KDE's personal information management software 📧 🗓️ 🛫 : Kalendar's contact editor gets overhauled and shares more with KOrganizer, Itinerary supports more travel documents, Akonadi improves database handling, and more.
I understand the reason for this - organization and coordination are difficult tasks. And the team responsible for resolving conflicts should not itself be a source of misunderstanding and conflict.
For this purpose #discord is a very useful, but flawed tool. And alternatives (e.g. #Matrix, #IRC, #Email and #Jitsi) have their own issues - some are just down to network effects, others actually lack features making them less useful for coordination.
• How do people decide which Mastodon instance to join? [1]
• How do people decide which email provider to join?
[1] ignoring fediverse outside Mastodon because if you know that exists you’ll probably choose an instance with specific reasons, and ignoring the recent Join Mastodon intro screen which funnels everybody into the one mainstream instance