• Newsgroup for webmail?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toyliet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Sun Aug 3 17:22:35 2025
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    Is there a Usenet newsgroup about webmail?
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  • From Marco Moock@mm+solani@dorfdsl.de to alt.free.newsservers on Sun Aug 3 16:42:53 2025
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    Am 03.08.2025 17:22 Uhr schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
    Is there a Usenet newsgroup about webmail?
    There is comp.mail.misc where your topic would fit.
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  • From VanguardLH@V@nguard.LH to alt.free.newsservers on Sun Aug 3 12:47:04 2025
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    "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toyliet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is there a Usenet newsgroup about webmail?

    You don't say for which e-mail provider, and each programs (or contracts someone to program) their own webmail client. Since you have @gmail.com
    as the right-token (address field) in your From header, presumably you
    need help with Gmail beyond what its help articles can teach.

    https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9259748
    That's their canned web pages proffered as a tutorial.

    https://support.google.com/mail/community
    That's their user community aka web-based forums. Never went there.
    I'm guessing you'll need a Google account to log into their community to
    ask questions.

    If you need help with Gmail's searches, well, they are just as bad a
    searches in Google's search: very greedy (you may get lots of false
    positives aka mismatches), and nowhere as robust as using regex. You
    can find help articles on how to do searches at:

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6593 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190

    While I have a Gmail account, I only use it for Gmail services, like
    Google Voice. It isn't used for anything else. I find their
    server-side "rules" (which are searches) to be very crude, and without
    any control in flow through the rules, like a stop-clause to prevent
    side effects from multiple rules exercising on the same message. So,
    most of my Gmail rules are defined in my local client.

    For many other e-mail providers, like Hotmail/Outlook.com/Live, their server-side rules are far more focused on e-mail, and much easier to understand.

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/outlook https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/778/office-outlook

    Those seem to be catch-all forums to discuss Outlook, Outlook.com,
    Hotmail, etc. Be warned that many of the self-claimed experts or admins
    there are just bots, or idiots reading from a database of canned answers
    who rarely actually read about what you asked.

    As for newsgroups on specific webmail apps, there aren't any. You're
    stuck having to find web-based forums on those. Like Marco mentioned,
    you can try the general comp.mail.misc newsgroups, but I suspect folks
    there are discussing mail servers or local mail clients along with noise
    from off-topic trolls, not to discuss webmail apps. For your
    unidentified webmail provider, you're stuck using their online
    "communities" aka web forums, if they have them.
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