Originally Posted by
WildPlumYonder
Although what I like about gmail is that the mail is stored on Google's servers and I can read it anywhere, I use Thunderbird more because I have 5 email accounts set up on my mail provider - one for family, one for bills, one for business, one for catalogs and other junk and one for website registrations - and Thunderbird handles them all in one window, local on my machine. Kinda. When I am traveling, I forward any email I think I will need to my gmail acct for access while not at home. Cumbersome, but it works. Alternatively, I can set up email forwarding on my ISP's server or read mail as webmail, but I really hate Centurylink's webmail client, it's extremely clunky.
I switched away from Eudora back when it went to Qualcomm and really didn;t care for Thunderbird as much, but I've gotten used to it over the last 5 years or so.
I'm starting to sound like a Gmail Fanboi, but I roll all my mail accounts into Gmail. You can send from Gmail via other SMTP servers. Plenty of filtering so you can sort mail from various accounts as it arrives.
And - access from any machine anywhere. Though, I do have a 2nd gmail account which I forward all my mail to for reading at "unknown" PCs (Lounges, Hotels). Only for use in emergency and I change the password at a safe machine after use.