[Homestead] Communications
Tim Oppenheim
timopp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 22:30:38 EST 2010
Wow, Trying to do anything with the free yahoo account is pretty hard. I did a little research, they really want you to upgrade.
To that I will say that I am a big Google fanboy. All the things we are talking about doing, imap, pop3, etc are easily done plus they give you over 7 gigs of space. I haven't deleted an email in over three years. And if you want to use Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora or Mac OS Mail ( a person fav) is no problem. Oh and it's all free. They will even give away a branded version with your own domain name. Did I mention everything is free? Well not free, but the advertising is so unobtrusive that it is a worthy trade.
If your are making a change anyway it's a no-brainer. If you ready to migrate from another system, it's still a very easy decision. Google has tools to import your messages and contacts before switching. You can do a phased migration and run both accounts until you have comfortably transitioned. Google is really committed to building the best experience and they regularly bring out new software and features.
If any Google execs are reading this totally uncompensated endorsement, please send me an Android phone : ).
Tim
On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Leslie wrote:
> Thunderbird can do it, but yahoo won't let the program do it unless you pay yahoo the upgrade fee.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Gloria Morris wrote:
>> I used to use Outlook and had problems with it. It would hang my entire
>> system and do other annoying things. I finally dumped that and went with
>> the straight Gmail web interface, but it is limited and has its own
>> issues. I just recently downloaded Thunderbird, however - it is still
>> too new to me to know how I'll like it, but so far, so good - at least
>> it hasn't caused a major freeze-up on my 'puter yet. If I can live
>> happily with Thunderbird, then my issues with Gmail will be largely
>> resolved.
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>> Gloria
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>> On 2/10/2010 8:34 AM, Mark Stutzman wrote:
>>> Why don't you like GMail, Gloria? If it's just their web interface, you
>>> can use whatever email client you want. I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird
>>> (basically an open-source clone of Outlook Express, w/o all the file
>>> corruption issues of OE) to access my GMail account as POP3, and it
>>> works fine. I'm not enamored with GMail's web interface, but I never
>>> really bothered to learn it, since I don't really use it too often.
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>>> -mark
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