On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail

Brad Templeton writes "After talking with Google folks and learning about E-mail privacy law from EFF (join!) lawyers, I have written a new essay on the privacy subtleties of GMail and other advanced webmail applications. Some of the fear has been overdone, but there are surprising issues due to the fact that the ECPA, written almost 20 years ago, wasn't prepared for fancy e-mail offerings like GMail. I issue a call for Google to encrypt your mail to avoid these issues."

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I've been using Kmail for some time, and I find it incredibly useful. My favorites:

1. Keyboard shortcuts. Allows me to use a GUI mail client the same way I use, well, non-gui email clients, without ever touching the mouse.
2. Threading the view so that I can see "conversations". Really nice.
3. No ads at all.
4. NO ads at all.
5. The address autocomplete. Just type in the first couple of letters of an address and pick from the selection box that appears.
6. To reply to an email, all I have to do is click on the "Reply" button and a textbox will appear, great time saver, with the previous email quoted already for my convenience.
7. The interface is so clean and clutter free, it has KDE written all over it.
8. Since my mail is stored on my machine, I can keep archives of it for as long as I want, not limited by any mail provider's arbitrary quotas.
9. Since my mail is stored as plaintext in my protected home directory, I can search it with any tool that I want, not depend on some corporation's proprietary search technology to do so.
10. No ads.

:)