Rob,
I use the webmail provided by Gmail at work, but when I turn on my home
PC, I collect the mail using POP3 from Thunderbird.
I just checked the Vista mail client, and it looks like it will do the
same (as the port used for POP3 is blocked by our company firewall, I'm
not sure)
More info can be found at
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75726&topic=12891
and
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103&topic=12890
If she needs a gmail invite, I've got over 90 left ;-)
HTH,
Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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[PCTECH] Web browser email versus client email
My wife wants to set up a different email account for her laptop than our
desktop. I am wavering between using one of the freebie web based email
accounts: Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Google mail; and between something that
supports using the mail client that came with Vista. She likes being able
to do the Send/Receive and work offline although, with wireless in the
home I don't know how often that will be necessary. She's going back to
college starting today, and, may take the laptop to some scrapbooking
events.
I am assuming that the web based ones probably don't have the ability to
interface with that mail client because then it would be hard to subsidize
the free part, eh? Am I wrong? If so, how do I set it up?
I am checking with our ISP to see how much it would cost, if anything, to
add an additional email account.
Any pro's/con's I should be concerned with regarding either client?
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
