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The Verge reports that Google will remove Gmail's Basic HTML view effective January 2024.
Though the vast majority of people use the Standard view on their PCs without question, the HTML version of Gmail has its perks. The stripped-down Gmail experience loads quickly, and users can access it even on older machines or with much slower connections.
The change appears to have been announced around September 19th in a Google support article, and users of the Basic HTML view were shown warnings that it will be discontinued, after which time they will be switched to the current standard view.
The removal of Gmail's basic HTML view is the latest in a long line of products, features, services, and more to be admitted to the Google graveyard. The company has also recently buried its Pixel Pass phone upgrade program, Google Currents, and Nest Secure.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday November 15 2023, @01:58PM (6 children)
I am starting to feel like it might be time to set up my own MTA. Is running your own mail server still hell? The last time I did this I used postfix, Cyrus?, and Dovecot. What's an easy stack now?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2023, @03:52PM
IIS.
:)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 15 2023, @03:55PM
The GMail html interface looks almost exactly like the "webmail" interface my ISP provides for those SMTP accounts I never use anymore.
Not that I wouldn't like to use my SMTP/POP3 system, it's a good system, but the world puts "roll your own" e-mail onto too many blacklists to make it a practical means of global communication anymore.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tekk on Wednesday November 15 2023, @04:23PM (1 child)
Yes. Specifically dealing with Microsoft who will shadowban you and tell you you're not blocked.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday November 16 2023, @01:46AM
Not to mention the ISP may block the port, for your safety of course. And pretend they aren't doing any such thing. I have not been able to run a webserver on my residential ISP's service for over 10 years now.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ncc74656 on Wednesday November 15 2023, @08:25PM
I've run my own for over 20 years...first at home over a business-grade cable-modem connection, then for the past 15 or so years on a succession of VPSes (currently at Linode). I'm running Postfix and Dovecot on Gentoo Linux, but I've been considering using some sort of containerized mail server, such as docker-mailserver or mailu. The only trouble I've run into with mail delivery was when Microsoft started blocking traffic [lasvegashhh.com] from my server to their servers a while back, but I got Linode involved and got my mail unblocked fairly quickly.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday November 16 2023, @08:57AM
Why so complicated? You can (and should) use POP3 (or LDAP) to access your email anyway. Then, you can register a domain, usually you get free email along with it (only limited storage). ISPs as mentioned also tend to offer free email. Finally, there are many free alternatives for email out there (not sure about plain html though).
Setting up your own server has become more complicated nowadays. You have to mess with DNS to set up signatures that prevent spoofing of emails, still your emails might be rejected as your server might not be trusted.