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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:44:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-10, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 05:42:15 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 09 May 2024 12:12:21 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> The advantage of using a web app for my e-mail provider (Posteo), is
>>> that I can create filters directly on the account rather than within a
>>> program.
>> 
>> I would want something I can backup and restore, transfer to some other
>> system etc. Something under my control, not stuck on somebody else’s
>> server.
>
> It's called POP3, and the server supports that. In fact, the entirety of 
> Posteo is open-source and the service was recommended by the Free Software 
> Foundation when I signed up for it.

So Posteo still correctly supports POP3. My father may be interested in it.
  
>> On Linux, many GUI programs save their user prefs in text files, which
>> are easy to manage in this way.
>
> And if an update goes wrong and locks you out of your system, it also 
> locks you out of those preferences. If you can fix the system and restore 
> everything, that's fine. A lot of us prefer to keep it on the cloud in 
> case of a disaster, or simply because we want to have access to the same 
> data through a variety of computers.


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