I have always wanted to see web apps take off, but have been disappointed with the reality every time I try working with one. When Gmail came out I started to get my hopes up thinking that perhaps we have reached the point where the “Zero-Pound” computer was finally starting to become a reality. I then started using gmail as my backup mail client, and soon discovered that the Gmail’s spam filters are second to none. At this point started sending all my mail through Gmail and popping my mail from Gmail to mail.app, and soon after they allowed me to send mail as if I was using any of my other email addresses, and I started using Gmail’s smtp servers to handle my outgoing email. But wait, there’s more!
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