(reading about migrating away from a well-known email provider -- regardless):
"tags/labels may need manual recreation in the new system" 😐
Categories for emails, calendar events and contacts are all good and useful, but they are not transferable across email providers.
IMAP, the minimum common denominator email access protocol does not have a concept of thematic labels/tags/categories. Hence it's understandable that each email client has its own solutions (which doesn't map, obvs, to other clients).
It's not that I change providers often, but I was hoping things would've improved a bit since I left Gmail back in 2017.. GN #email #imap
This weekend I did some email *ahem* autumn cleaning. After achieving inbox 📥 zero and a reasonable folder & categorisation for the rest of my email, I feel like I've taken a heavy weight off me..
As a side note, most weekly "updates" or "things you may have missed" emails go unread. I had short of 2,000 of those. Such a waste of storage and bandwidth. #email
Thinking 💭 about simplifying my personal email setup.
Claude AI gave me valuable info on approaches to minimise correlation risk (worst-case scenario being a single email address allowing a third party knowing what other sites I hold accounts on) as well as trivially knowing where spammers got my email address from.
Forwarding /masking email address services like Simple Login seem to be a piece of the solution's puzzle. What solutions do you use and recommend? #email #privacy
