I give up on gmail April 23, 2008
I’ve had enough of gmail. Sure, the interface is nice, and sure, it’s (almost) guaranteed to be online for my email. Although, since I route a lot of mail through the server, that doesn’t really have an effect (although I use pointlessrambler@gmail.com for emergancies). Anyway, why give up gmail!? Well, I’ll explain:
- Slow, gmail got really slow recently; and, although the speed has picked up a bit, it’s still pretty slow at times
- SPAM, the filter used to be my blessing, it always used to catch everything, thousands of messages a day. And it’s still doing it, but not enough. For some reason, google have failed to block out the clever backscatter method of spam. So now, I’m getting about a hundred (give or take) spam emails a day, how annoying
- Reliable (but then again, so is our server)
OK, so what do I plan to move to and how would I go about doing it? Well, hopefully within the next week (probably this weekend), I’m going to set gmail to forward all mail to nick at kerplunc dot com, but also keep its own copy (security & such), then, instead of having the server route mail to my gmail account (in which case it would just sit being emailed all around the accounts), I will store mail on our server. Take control of my own mail and it’s storage. All I need to do is install the wonderful RoundCube on cPanel so it’s our default webmail client. Lastly I will need to go through the latest gmail and finish tasks etc… Advantages?
- Mail is stored in two places, google and this server. What happens if our hard drive fails? Google has millions of drives, what would happen if one of those failed, and it happened to be our emails? But with the mail in two places, it makes a crash so very unlikely
- I take control, the main email control is within our server, I choose everything
- It’s a whole load faster than gmail
So there we have it, why I’ve given up on good ol’ gmail.
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