- Thread starter Robert
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I hung onto Thunderbird for my domain mail for years, before switching it to GMail earlier this year. Never looked back.
As well as the excellent search facility, the killer feature for me is the ability to connect via Exchange, which means I can have proper push email on my iPhone as well as webmail access from anywhere.
As well as the excellent search facility, the killer feature for me is the ability to connect via Exchange, which means I can have proper push email on my iPhone as well as webmail access from anywhere.
Depends what you mean by off-line?
Using POP3 accounts tied to a single machine - not done that for years - bad way of doing things imo
Using IMAP on my domain email and have done for ages.
I do have hotmail/gmail accounts but I rarely used them, mainly when I have to give an address for ordering so all the subsequent spam goes to them.
Using POP3 accounts tied to a single machine - not done that for years - bad way of doing things imo
Using IMAP on my domain email and have done for ages.
I do have hotmail/gmail accounts but I rarely used them, mainly when I have to give an address for ordering so all the subsequent spam goes to them.
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Never saw offline email in ages.
Gmail for everything, domain mail, forwarders, the lot. It's just the fastest mail platform there is and available /anywhere/ and push sync on my phone.
Also it gets backed up weekly to the PC so all mail/settings and contacts are never lost if the Cloud goes down. I can quickly import them into outlook, and have working mail within the hour!
Also it gets backed up weekly to the PC so all mail/settings and contacts are never lost if the Cloud goes down. I can quickly import them into outlook, and have working mail within the hour!
I'm old fashioned; I still have my domain's e-mails POP3'd to a single machine running Outlook. Although I do access it via IMAP from my phone, I don't need to be able to access everything I've ever received when I'm away from the desktop so it's never been a problem.
I've considered switching to Gmail or similar but I'm a bit concerned about having everything available from any where. I don't know about others but I tend to keep most e-mails rather than delete them, so if the account was ever compromised someone could very easily view anything and everything tied to the Google account potentially leading to other accounts being compromised as a result. Maybe I'm overly paranoid about this but the e-mail account is the central point for everything I do online, I feel much happier knowing that should my account be compromised the 'worst' that would happen is they would be able to view e-mails received since I last connected from Outlook.
I've considered switching to Gmail or similar but I'm a bit concerned about having everything available from any where. I don't know about others but I tend to keep most e-mails rather than delete them, so if the account was ever compromised someone could very easily view anything and everything tied to the Google account potentially leading to other accounts being compromised as a result. Maybe I'm overly paranoid about this but the e-mail account is the central point for everything I do online, I feel much happier knowing that should my account be compromised the 'worst' that would happen is they would be able to view e-mails received since I last connected from Outlook.
How about Google's two-step verification?
"When you log in from a computer you don't normally use, we'll ask you for your password and a code that you receive on your phone. This will help prevent strangers from accessing your account with just a stolen password."
"When you log in from a computer you don't normally use, we'll ask you for your password and a code that you receive on your phone. This will help prevent strangers from accessing your account with just a stolen password."
I use Thunderbird with Gmail/IMAP, I have it configured so as that if I delete mail from Thunderbird it is removed from the server but if I don't then obviously I can login from anywhere I want. All my passwords are all alpha numeric using upper and lower case and are all at least 20 characters long each.
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