On 22/01/2019 15.14, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2019-01-21 2:31 p.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
I feel unable to handle mail on my tablet for long. A family post or two, with the gmail app.
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But composing... Well on-screen keyboards are pretty despicable and ever since I cut the end of my thumb off ... The editor window is awful and there simply aren't the option available in PC email composers. I still haven't figured how to make K-9 or k-@ send plain text rather than HTML.
I didn't know about K-@.
But really, the GMail app isn't any better than K-@.
I use it instead of the gmail app so that google doesn't learn my mail and password to other mail accounts.
To be honest, I have my doubts about the consolidation feature in K-9/@. You can see I have an account quite specific to this list. I realise that some *NIX users make use of the email system's "+" feature, and/or procmail. But that doesn't seem to work on the tablet or at various ISPs.
It has to be enabled and it isn't on by default. Once I noticed that my ISP mail server was using the default certificate of the software, with names like example.do.not.use. Obviously they go for defaults. Do you think they would enable the + separator?
Apart from my 'native' address (which, to be honest, does get overloaded) I don't have many list-specific addresses, only the high-volume or special interest ones. And not all the lists I can access on my PC are available on my tablet.
I simply use one account for the lists. Filtering with procmail on the "X-Mailinglist:" header.
I suppose in a perfect world I'd have a secured gateway and would be able to access my media and photo archive on the PC remotely. But in many ways the restriction is a GoodThing(tm) as it lets me deal with other than 'computer stuff'. Then too, having the tablet rather than a laptop is a restriction too (as, I suppose, would be having a chromebook but not the the same degree). My tablet is roughly the size of a 'Trade Paperback', better viewing than a phone.
My small laptop is also a tablet with foldable keyboard to the back. Came with Windows. I replaced the hard disk with a bigger SSD and installed Linux on it. Double boot, that is. I was unable to boot Windows from an USB disk. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)