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Subject:Re: Help with Gmail Filters From:Craig Cardimon <craig -dot- cardimon -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:37:09 -0400
So what is your real email client?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> I find Gmail insufficiently user-friendly to use as a primary mail client.
> I use it on the road and from the office to do quick checks of multiple
> accounts, then let the filters on my "real" mail client on my home PC sort
> the messages I decide to hang onto.
>
> One thing Gmail does do really well is spam filtering. I seldom see any
> spam, and at the same time almost never find when I return home and check
> my regular mail client that Gmail has blocked a message that should have
> gotten through.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Margaret Cekis
> <margaret -dot- cekis -at- comcast -dot- net>wrote:
>
> >
> > Craig:
> > My husband's company recently switched to Gmail. He had the same problem.
> > After checking it out, he was told that Gmail is designed that way, and
> > deleting an item from your Inbox deletes it period. Not especially user-
> > friendly, is it? [Maybe Google monitors your inbox and can't see your
> > personal folders. JMHO]
> > Margaret Cekis, Johns Creek Ga
> >
>
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