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[Tim Oppenheim <timopp AT gmail.com>]

Well free in the sense that you won't get a bill, but not free in the sense 
that they will try and try to target more relevant advertising at you.

There are step by step instructions for Thunderbird here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38343 

If you log into the email part of Gmail up in the right hand corner is 
Settings. Go to Forwarding and POP and turn it on. All the rest is done in 
Thunderbird.

Tim




On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:40 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> I did, last night, set up a gmail account under erthnsky.  That is step 
> one in the transition.  Now I just have to figure out how to bring my 
> gmail mail into Thunderbird.
> I do have one question for you Tim...
> Did you say that all of that Google stuff was free?  ;)
> 
> Bev, in NW Georgia with a mere 2" of snow, but it is still falling
> 
> Tim Oppenheim wrote:
>> 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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