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Dec 2, 2008 | 12:21 pm
#16
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I don't really see the value in this. For $8/year you can get your own domain name and then just set up Gmail Apps to handle your email. And you get to choose your email domain instead of having the pobox.com one. Plus, when you send email it will come from your default email address instead of mail going to pobox.com and coming from the forwarded account.
If I were starting now, and a domain I wanted were available, I might well do as you suggest
Cheers.
Dec 2, 2008 | 12:34 pm
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When I first started doing this, I don't think getting a domain name was tha simple (of course, I didn't research it much). As for the outgoing mail, I can set my mailer to have it come from the pobox account. Plus, I really like the things they do with SPAM filtering.
If I were starting now, and a domain I wanted were available, I might well do as you suggest
Cheers.
If I were starting now, and a domain I wanted were available, I might well do as you suggest
Cheers.
I like the Gmail Apps solution because it includes all the anti-malware/spam/virii scanning as part of the setup. And it is still all free. Setting the from address is something that is highly dependant on the system where you are sending from, so if you are sending from a web-based solution that is often not available.
For someone starting today I would recommend either picking one of the webmail providers and just using that domain or getting your own domain name and Gmail hosted for the best price/performance combination.
Dec 2, 2008 | 1:04 pm
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So, I have my home system, laptop and iPhone all set up for IMAP. Depending of what I've got access to, I get a notification. Once I read/delete the message, it's updated on all the other systems.
Cheers,
Rick
Dec 2, 2008 | 3:07 pm
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Outlook is not the best with IMAP but it does work - Thunderbird and IMAP (of the GMail variety anyway) work very well together. Apart from that IMAP is everything POP3 is yet with more flexibility.
Dec 2, 2008 | 3:23 pm
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Dec 2, 2008 | 8:13 pm
#24
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Check with Frontier, they may offer a mail only plan for a few dollars a month. Most ISP (many, some, whatever) do. If they do you can keep the mail and slowly get everybody moved over to whatever you pick.
In most cases, switching between pop and imap is just putting in the settings. Depending on what your mail client is, you may need to set up both, and don't have the pop one check for mail anymore, as all your current mail will be stored and may be deleted when you remove the account.
In most cases, switching between pop and imap is just putting in the settings. Depending on what your mail client is, you may need to set up both, and don't have the pop one check for mail anymore, as all your current mail will be stored and may be deleted when you remove the account.
Dec 2, 2008 | 9:07 pm
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Dec 3, 2008 | 7:36 pm
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I would also second the gmail suggestion, but with this addition: get your own domain name. Then in the future if you ever need to change from gmail for some reason, it's a 30 second matter of updating mail re-directs.
The other thing I like about gmail is that you can use it's smtp server now for all your outgoing mail (and it automatically archives all sent mail too), so no more smtp annoyances when on the road and not connected to your home isp.
The other thing I like about gmail is that you can use it's smtp server now for all your outgoing mail (and it automatically archives all sent mail too), so no more smtp annoyances when on the road and not connected to your home isp.
I usually delete mails as they are dealt with filing outgoing, replies or incoming that I want to save in folder appropriate to the person with whom I am corresponding. Those are folders kept in "MY Documents" so they are backed up before every trip to a separate external drive that flies separately from the computer as well as to a drive at home.
Dec 3, 2008 | 8:51 pm
#28
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http://www.google.com/apps/
E-Mail users using the Webmail interface or configuring their e-mail clients will know it's hosted by Google, but it wouldn't be obvious to anyone receiving e-mail from your Google Apps service (obviously, one could read the servers, etc. from the headers).
Dec 4, 2008 | 3:59 am
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Dec 4, 2008 | 4:22 am
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Use Gmail to send from your other email addresses)"From here you can choose a default 'from' email, and also choose to reply to incoming messages via the same email address.
Apparently this is called Mail Fetcher and here's more info... link