8 Jul
2015
8 Jul
'15
9:30 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Dave Woyciesjes once stated:
On 07/07/2015 09:06 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
The big ponderous GUI I was talking about is Thunderbird. Using the
native iPad email client (or any third party ones, if there are any, I don't
know as I haven't checked) would be Yet Another Interface To Learn While I'm
On Vacation [1].
-spc (I have enough trouble keeping up with the latest programming fads to
keep up with today's GUI du jour)
[1] For what I'm doing on vacation, an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard is
sufficient for my needs.
...But I've tried using a GUI to check email and frankly, I
found it too painful to use. It wasn't that the GUI was confusing or
inconsistent, but that it was *way too slow*. Sluggish to display, and
painfully slow to download (it's not unusual for me to receive everal
hundred emails per day). By checking email on the server using a command
line tool, I can do the filtering upon receipt (not when downloading) and
blast through two emails in the time it would take a GUI to display one.
Right now, I'm using an iPad (and a Bluetooth keyboard) with an SSH
client
to check my email. I get to use an email client I'm familiar with for
reading, along with my preferred editor to write this email.
Wait, what? The email GUI on an iPad is too slow? What's wrong with
that device? Or is there a problem with your server?