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title: "Close Gmail, Save a Gig"
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A number of organizations I am part of use Google Apps for their Email,
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Calendaring, Storage, etc, which means that I recently became one of the
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millions of users who recently had too much load time, excessive white-space,
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and awkwardly huge buttons foisted upon them by the new Gmail re-design.
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On my 13" large screen, the new design leaves far too little space for _email_,
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which seems like perhaps somebody missed the point.
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The unpleasantness added to my email experience finally forced me to reconsider
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viewing my Gmail in the same manner as my other email: through
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[offlineimap](http://www.offlineimap.org/) and Mutt.
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Since I last considered offlineimap for Gmail, it has sprouted some new
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features to handle some of the anachronisms of Gmail more comfortably. The two
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most notable changes are the `synclabels = yes` flag which will apparently sync
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labels back and forth, when set on messages. And the account `type = Gmail`
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which seems to set some sane defaults for suitably handling Gmail.
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For example:
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```
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[Repository REDACTEDRemote]
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type = Gmail
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ssl = yes
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maxconnections = 3
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synclabels = yes
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```
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Once I finished syncing my accounts and the folders I cared about, excluding
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`All Mail`, I closed the many persistent Gmail tabs open in my web
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browser. Imagine my surprise when I looked at the memory usage on my machine
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and the baseline had dropped over a whole gigabyte!
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I am aware of how lightweight terminal-based applications I use can be in
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comparison to fully-featured in-browser web applications, but I was shocked to
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such a change.
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With that extra 1024MB of memory, I can run another whole JVM!
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