On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:46:14 +0100 Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/07/05, James Gibbon wikipedia@jamesgibbon.com wrote:
Strictly speaking it's your browser, not GMail, that remembers the text you type into particular fields - and some browsers may not do this.
No, GMail has a built-in auto-complete from its internal address book. You have to remember that GMail is so heavily JavaScripted that it's more like a mail client in its own right that just happens to run inside your web browser - a genuine "web application", I guess, although that term is so full of hype it makes me cringe to use it.
Ah! Forgive my assumption, then. I'm quite attached to Sylpheed - a Linux mailer that works with MH folders, so I imagine that converting existing mail might be a bit painful - but I must admit I'm sufficiently intrigued to give it a go, if poss.
James