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How do you usually access your email?

Internet Website (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
Outlook Express
Outlook
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Thunderbird
Eudora
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« on: March 22, 2011, 02:22:14 PM »
So?
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2011, 02:27:21 PM »
Yahoo e-mail being bery, bery good to me. bfbfbfbfbf
I use Gmail sometimes too, but Yahoo has been my go-to e-mail connection for many years now. It generally works very well, and it works on any networked computer anywhere in the world. I can't imagine ever using a locally-resident e-mail package (Outlook, Eudora, etc.) ever again.
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2011, 02:37:00 PM »
If you set it up for IMAP rather than POP, the email stays on the server so you can still access it from the web when you're away from your home computer or away from internet service, and re-syncs when you reconnect.
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2011, 02:59:29 PM »
i just use the standard yahoo and hotmail accounts. I can never figure out the other ones so don't bother. i am not particularly patient when it comes to figuring out this technology stuff. mmmmmmmmmm
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2011, 03:56:34 PM »
I'd say everyone should be using https, the secure variant of the web's http protocol, to read and send email. That gives you an encrypted connection between your machine and the mail server, preventing anyone in between from looking at your mail.

More-or-less everyone uses https for logins, to protect the passwords, but not all use it for the actual data transfers. Check your service. Being a paranoid, I'd say if they don't support https, you should change providers. (Old joke: "I know I'm paranoid, but I'm really worried about whether I'm paranoid enough.")

Gmail has offered https for years; that was the main reason I switched to it. Last year, they went further; it is now the default, so everyone there gets it unless they actually turn it off. As I see it, all web mail services should do that.

Hotmail were a few years behind in offering https, but they now do. You have to muck around in menus and check "always use https" to get it, though. I do not know what other services do.
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 04:28:15 PM »
a few months back, after "National Security" visited my place of employment to inquire where I'd spent the previous summer's vacation, coincidentally, I became unable to send email to anyone with one of those standard Chinese accounts. If I sent one, even a reply, it would bounce back. This included people at my work that I needed to communicate with, and students and friends. They have three numbers, like 123.com or whatever.

I created a separate account with yahoo and I don't have any problems there.
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Re: Email Access
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2011, 07:03:09 PM »
I don't wish to jinx it but I use Firefox and browse to Fastmail.fm.  And it has always been accessible.  

The original reason I put up with the dinky inbox was a fastmail account can be set up to import email from your Hotmail account, and would usually do so even when Hotmail itself wasn't readily accessible from here.  And these days their free account inboxes are no longer dinky.


I do have gmail on my phone, but haven't gotten into using it.
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