| > A.K.A."It works on my machine". Lucky you. It has worked flawlessly on multiple PCs, multiple operating systems, multiple email clients. It's my primary way of using Gmail and Gcal, through Evolution on Linux Mint. It even worked perfectly on my ancient Sony-Ericsson feature phone's terrible built-in email client, back when I still used that hunk of shit. There are no "obscure values" to change, just a completely ordinary settings page with a toggle, and a link to the URLs and ports you need to use. > So your argument is that I made bad decisions so I should not criticism Google's behavior ? That's a weird stance. My argument is that you were blinded by the allure of free email with ~unlimited storage, and forgot to take into account that 1) there is no such thing as a free lunch, and 2) Google is an advertising company, first and foremost. You knew what you were getting into, being a privacy and security minded person. If you decided to forego your principles to get a fancy @gmail.com address, that's your own mistake. |