[Homestead] Communications

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Thu Feb 11 19:38:27 EST 2010


I would just call it software...I have no idea of what IMAP is..LOL
Maybe someone like Tim will tell me how it all works(again).

B

Lynda wrote:
> Isn't Thunderbird a POP3 or is it one of those IMAP things?
> 
> Lynda, who does NOT like IMAP!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
> 
> 
>> I've used Thunderbird since its inception, many years now.  I love it.
>> I used Outlook at work before, but now we have made the jump to web 
>> based mail, which is also an Outlook product(MS Exchange-Office Outlook 
>> Web Access) and I don't know anyone at my workplace who thinks it is a 
>> good thing.  The decision came from corporate, and in the opinion of 
>> many, they just jumped from the frying pan into the fire.  The only 
>> positive thing I can say is that now, when I log in from home I choose 
>> the light option due to being on dialup.  It is nice to have that 
>> option.  What a contrast it is, too, to go from 100 MBps+ at work to 
>> 19.2 KBps- at home.
>>
>> Ok, here is a dumb question...(this whole POP3 thing confuses me)
>> Is there a way to dump all my yahoo mail into my Thunderbird so that I 
>> never have to log in and use the Yahoo pages, just their mail server?
> 
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