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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Communications
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:13:27 -0500

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?


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.

Gloria

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.

-mark


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