{"id":3739,"date":"2018-09-24T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2018-09-24T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T04:00:39","slug":"icloud-mail-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Mail Frustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I like Apple&#8217;s iCloud (formerly me.com, formerly mac.com) email service better than Gmail. Unlike Google:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple doesn&#8217;t aggressively spy on users for purposes of marketing to them,<\/li>\n<li>iCloud doesn&#8217;t have obnoxious security that gets false positives every time I travel or do something a tiny bit out of the ordinary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, there is one area where Gmail outshines iCloud like a star outshines a small, rocky planet: its Web interface. iCloud&#8217;s web interface positively <em>sucks.<\/em> It&#8217;s prime design goal was apparently to value appearance over all else, and to <em>particularly<\/em> value it over functionality. It&#8217;s bloated in the extreme with fragile AJAX-using Javascript that crumbles the moment your network connection departs from rock-solid. It&#8217;s also monstrously inefficient in its use of screen space; one must stretch the browser window to comically wide proportions just to be able to read messages. It&#8217;s so painful to use that the feature might as well not be there in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Gmail, by contrast, at realizes that not the whole world wants to run bloatware in their web pages, and offers a &#8220;basic HTML&#8221; mode which is actually pretty sane.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to work around the problem by installing <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrelmail.org\/\">Squirrelmail<\/a> and using that to access iCloud for those times where I don&#8217;t want to configure a mail client. Already ran into one roadblock with my connections from one of my servers (a shared one) being blackholed. And I really shouldn&#8217;t need to do this: Apple should offer a simple, sane, non-bloated web interface for iCloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I like Apple&#8217;s iCloud (formerly me.com, formerly mac.com) email service better than Gmail. Unlike Google: Apple doesn&#8217;t aggressively spy on users for purposes of marketing to them, iCloud doesn&#8217;t have obnoxious security that gets false positives every time I travel or do something a tiny bit out of the ordinary. But, there is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}