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As a long-time Emacs + Gnus user, I thought I’d never use web-based e-mail software. However, I have just switched from Thunderbird to GMail for my personal e-mail. Why?

• Whenever I make changes to my e-mail client, I don’t want to do changes in four of the operating systems I have at home (two machines, both having Windows XP and Linux)
• Even CRM114 doesn’t filter my spam as well nowadays, and I don’t have the time to tune it (Google works hard to improve spam filtering all the time)
• Gmail is fast. Often even faster than thunderbird due to AJAX + indexing capabilites and other Google magic

Ok, web pages still suck when I have to do simple text editing. But for most emails, be realistic: how much editing capabilities you need? When I have to do fancy formatting or write longer messages, I’ll probably write the message in Emacs and just copy-paste it to Gmail. Or I’ll send it directly using Emacs – using GMail doesn’t mean I have to post using it all the time.

Gmail is rad. Try it, if you haven’t.