JamesFrance
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Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 242
Loc: Carcassonne & Sant Carles
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If you use Thunderbird, it is very easy to configure it to access a gmail account.
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ean_p
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Reged: 28/12/2001
Posts: 572
Loc: Humber
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thanks for the info.......will give gmail a look me thinks !
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Foxy
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Reged: 08/03/2006
Posts: 128
Loc: Cruising
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If you have web space (easy enough to get free nowdays) look at using google applications. If you do, you can also use imap email which means that all your mails are on all of your pcs and the web server at all times. Handy if you need someone to refer to something on a desktop machine at home (as opposed to pop3 which downloads the email onto your machine) Works really well.
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scarlett
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Reged: 21/12/2002
Posts: 1099
Loc: French Canals 2007 on, Hull mo...
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I am not sure it is best but I use 'mail2web.com' in Internet cafes. As I go away from 3 to 6 months of the year I leave my at home account running and access it using this system.
But I am not an expert. I just do it this way because I know how to do it and it works.
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whipper_snapper
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Reged: 09/08/2006
Posts: 1438
Loc: Kenya
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If you do, you can also use imap email which means that all your mails are on all of your pcs and the web server at all times.
All you say is true, and for most people IMAP is good. But be aware, if you have big volumes of mail and slow connections, then IMAP can be a real pain in the neck because it is constantly working to synch mail rather than just downloading it. It also means that you will relentlessly eat up your server space unless you religiously delete unwanted mail or move it to a local box - which defeats the object of IMAP. I sometimes occupy over 1Gb. Our IT dept forced a change to IMAP which has been a real nuisance to me, I far preferred POP.
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Grehan
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Reged: 11/06/2001
Posts: 1137
Loc: Inland France
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mail2web is good and we used it for years - to access POP3 accounts via the web (on a cyber cafe machine for example). But G-Mail has pretty well replaced that need because you can set it up to harvest emails from all accounts, not just @gmail.com ones and it's excellent. As noted elsewhere we're inherently suspicious of hotmail and yahoo accounts because so much spam comes from there.
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TudorSailor
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Reged: 12/06/2005
Posts: 195
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I vote for Google mail too. When you get your address of joe.bloggs@google.com you can actually use joe.bloggs@gmail.com. It works just as well. Gmail also works well on a mobile phone as you can download a little application so data transfer is minimal and excludes adverts.
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mikehibb
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Reged: 23/09/2007
Posts: 424
Loc: Turkey Azerbaijan and Georgia
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Another vote for mail2web, I also have a hotmail account but tend to use the mail2web to access my normal account more often. (keep hotmail just as a back up these days)
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