MailSnare recommended, FM not ...

marc@ms · 14th November 2003, 02:38 AM

I just noticed on the excellent site of Nancy McGough (ii.com) that she highly recommends MailSnare (even to her friends), but not FM .....

MailSnare must be better

...

**DBH** · 14th November 2003, 02:53 AM

OK...that's one person's opinion...

marc@ms · 14th November 2003, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DBH
OK...that's one person's opinion...

.... not just someone, but imho someone who really knows a lot about the subject ....

**DBH** · 14th November 2003, 02:59 AM

Oh, sorry if I offended you...I've never heard of her

marc@ms · 14th November 2003, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DBH
Oh, sorry if I offended you...I've never heard of her

No you didn't offended me .... I respect everyones opinion. I know about Nancy's site a long time, learned alot thanks to the excellent information provided there ... so I admire her knowledge .... that's all

.

**JeffK** · 14th November 2003, 03:30 AM

Is it just my lack of knowledge, or is it the case in Mailsnare that one can't mark several emails at once for a bulk operation eg mark as read?

Jeff

**DBH** · 14th November 2003, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by marc@ms
No you didn't offended me .... I respect everyones opinion. I know about Nancy's site a long time, learned alot thanks to the excellent information provided there ... so I admire her knowledge .... that's all .

Oh, OK...that's cool!

marc@ms · 14th November 2003, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JeffK
Is it just my lack of knowledge, or is it the case in Mailsnare that one can't mark several emails at once for a bulk operation eg mark as read?

Jeff

Yes, you certainly can. As you may know, MS offers two web interfaces: IMP and VO. VO doesn't allow that action but IMP does.... With IMP you can even put several other IMAP flags (like 'important') on multiple messages.

oysterquartz · 14th November 2003, 04:47 AM

Nancy's very well known among the email service provider community, etc. I believe that quite a few have trumpeted their sites being on her recommendation list ...

She does know what she's talking about ... so I'm eager to take a look at your mention of MS and rationale of preferring one over the other ...

marc@ms · 14th November 2003, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by oysterquartz
Nancy's very well known among the email service provider community, etc. I believe that quite a few have trumpeted their sites being on her recommendation list ...

She does know what she's talking about ... so I'm eager to take a look at your mention of MS and rationale of preferring one over the other ...

The funny part of this is that in the past she did recommend FM; but for some reason she stopped doing that. Instead she's publishing warnings about FM ....

oysterquartz · 14th November 2003, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by marc@ms
The funny part of this is that in the past she did recommend FM; but for some reason she stopped doing that. Instead she's publishing warnings about FM ....

I do recall in the past, FM trumpeting her recommendation of the service as a big positive ... so it would be interesting to see why she changed her views ...

I have accounts at MS, FM, Runbox, etc., etc., and do concur that the MS guys are first rate ...

**JeffK** · 14th November 2003, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by marc@ms
Yes, you certainly can. As you may know, MS offers two web interfaces: IMP and VO. VO doesn't allow that action but IMP does.... With IMP you can even put several other IMAP flags (like 'important') on multiple messages.

So in order to do something like marking more than one message read, does one log out of VO, go to IMP, do the job, then log out again and back into VO?

kander · 14th November 2003, 06:46 AM

Well, Nancy certainly is one of the 'huge' names in Emailland. I've seen her name fly by often on newsgroups and other email-related things.

I'm not sure if this is the recommendation you mean:

Quote:

"If you are looking for a mail provider that offers challenge-response filtering, I recommend MailSnare.net (described below), which gives their users the option to use TMDA."
(Emphasis added)

Seems kinda logical she wouldn't recommend FM there, since FM doesn't offer CR filtering.

--K

**JeffK** · 14th November 2003, 06:49 AM

I'd like to be able to turn it on/off on a per alias basis. I like CR but it's a pain to use with mailing lists and the like.

Jeff

kander · 14th November 2003, 06:53 AM

Just went through the entire page *phew*... Edit: Just found them, somehow I read over them :-/ Anyway, all valid points she points out with FM. There have been a number of server problems, but for the past months I think everything's been stable again.

--K

14th November 2003, 02:38 AM	#1
marc@ms Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 104	MailSnare recommended, FM not ... I just noticed on the excellent site of Nancy McGough (ii.com) that she highly recommends MailSnare (even to her friends), but not FM ..... MailSnare must be better ... Last edited by marc@ms : 14th November 2003 at 02:51 AM.

14th November 2003, 06:53 AM	#15
kander The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,110	Just went through the entire page phew... Edit: Just found them, somehow I read over them :-/ Anyway, all valid points she points out with FM. There have been a number of server problems, but for the past months I think everything's been stable again. --K Last edited by kander : 14th November 2003 at 07:00 AM.

14th November 2003, 02:53 AM	#2
DBH Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: USA Posts: 1,528	OK...that's one person's opinion...

14th November 2003, 02:59 AM	#4
DBH Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: USA Posts: 1,528	Oh, sorry if I offended you...I've never heard of her

14th November 2003, 03:30 AM	#6
JeffK Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kingaroy, AU Posts: 3,120	Is it just my lack of knowledge, or is it the case in Mailsnare that one can't mark several emails at once for a bulk operation eg mark as read? Jeff

14th November 2003, 04:47 AM	#9
oysterquartz The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Athens Posts: 2,394	Nancy's very well known among the email service provider community, etc. I believe that quite a few have trumpeted their sites being on her recommendation list ... She does know what she's talking about ... so I'm eager to take a look at your mention of MS and rationale of preferring one over the other ...

14th November 2003, 06:49 AM	#14
JeffK Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kingaroy, AU Posts: 3,120	I'd like to be able to turn it on/off on a per alias basis. I like CR but it's a pain to use with mailing lists and the like. Jeff