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Thread ID: 97485 2009-02-17 19:41:00 Better Email than Outlook Express Digby (677) PC World Chat
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748711 2009-02-17 21:33:00 Whos going to care, what you use for email.

Whether its gmail, your isp's or whatever

You can still access it through OE / whatever email client
Speedy Gonzales (78)
748712 2009-02-17 22:13:00 Sorry what I meant was that if you are in business, it is not very business like to have Gmail email address.

eg. You have addys:
myname@gmail.com
myname@mybusiness.co.nz
myname@myisp.net.nz

You can use software installed on your computer, outlook/outlook express/thunderbird/etc.....
You can pick-up the mail from all these accounts.
You can send mail from any of these accounts.

You can also load all these accounts up on your gmail account, then use Gmails web service to pickup all the mail, and also send from any of these accounts.
Rob99 (151)
748713 2009-02-17 22:32:00 Gmail for the portability and spam protection (and online storage of all emails FOREVER - no need to import/export every time you have to rebuild/reinstall, just login to your Gmail account via your browser and search for the one you want).

And Thunderbird for a great free email client.

If you have your own domain with email account(s), as Rob99 says, Thunderbird will handle that just fine. What I would do for that scenario though, is to set up a redirect on the me@mydomain.co.nz to my Gmail account, since many hosts don't offer IMAP email, that way Gmail stores all those emails for me.
johcar (6283)
748714 2009-02-17 23:08:00 Gmail for online storage of all emails FOREVER

Why would you want to keep emails forever??

I keep some for a short time while I need them, or make ahrd copy on occasion and then delete them.
pctek (84)
748715 2009-02-17 23:43:00 Why would you want to keep emails forever??


For the same reason that I have every power bill that I have ever had since I was 18 and that was $ 4.37.

And I am a sicko

And I never seem to have time to go through and check them all before I delete them.
Digby (677)
748716 2009-02-18 00:22:00 Why would you want to keep emails forever??

I keep some for a short time while I need them, or make ahrd copy on occasion and then delete them.

Because you can.

Plus by keeping them in electronic format, it doesn't waste dead trees, they can be labelled and therefore easily found when required, and doesn't clutter up the house....
johcar (6283)
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