E-mail: Stay web-based or Use an e-mail client on my computer?

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My main e-mail is through Gmail. The primary reason I use an Internet based e-mail is for multiple device access. If my laptop is lost, damaged or stolen I can still get to all of my emails.

After reading TinRoof's thread, http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...t-windows.html, I got to thinking.

Maybe there are some other/better options available that I haven't considered. So, if you have an opinion or some experience regarding e-mail service, I'd like to hear them.

Thanks,

Joe Mobley
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  • If you want, you CAN download email WITHOUT deleting from the server, and can have local search and offline processing, use a LOCAL client, and STILL have all the web features you want. The drawbacks are that it will use the disk space and if your computer is stolen, they can read what is there.

    Steve
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  • Steve makes a good point. GMail allows you to use the web or POP/SMTP mailing and IMAP support.

    Unless you know what you're doing (and even if you do), I'd avoid IMAP.

    One oddity of note. It used to be the case, and may still be, that GMail did not include your IP address in the headers of mail sent through the web client, but did include it for mail sent via a desktop program like Thunderbird or Pegasus.

    https://support.google.com/mail/trou.../1668960?hl=en

    I don't know if any of the other large webmail systems offer that option.


    Paul
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  • I was tired, and reading my response again, yeah I left out POP/SMTP. I WAS thinking about gmail at the time, but you said that was what you are using. I know at one point there was a lot of talk about using POP/SMTP on webemail, so the big ones probably all allow it. Of course, it is the standard elsewhere, so if you had a shared site, or even a dedicated server, it is pretty much already supported.

    Be aware that SOME ISPs at least USED to block it. So, if you have a lot of trouble, try it through another ISP if you can, before going nuts. They blocked it on the pretense that they figured anyone going past their network for mail was trying to spam.

    That ties into what Paul was talking about, because the final IP address is that of the final receiving POP client, which would always be GMAIL here for email you would receive, through them. Hopefully they ALL had the foresight to keep that info because, if there are legal problems or you want to have another way to validate the email, that becomes important. It actually has a list of IPs showing something of the route it took.

    Steve
  • Steve,

    Some ISPs do block outbound port 25 connections. You can get around that by using AuthSMTP, usually on port 587. Most hosts offer this, although some change the port number for it.


    Paul
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    • Yeah, It has been a LONG time since I had to worry about such things. Thanks for the advice, though at least when I spoke with the ISPs they didn't seem too bright, and lied to me. I spoke to one for HOURS before he ADMITTED they blocked it. I had several ISPs and could, at the drop of a hat, just change THAT aspect, so I tracked the problem down to THEM! They NEVER gave a solution, other than to use THEIR email service, which I could not really do.

      Steve
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