TarfHead said:Recently I got into a discussion about the pros and cons of e-mail services; specifically web-based (hotmail, gmail) versus (for want of a better term) Outlook Express-based (e.g. eircom.net). Friends were looking to us for advice and we couldn't agree on what to recommend.
Web-based
- can be accessed from anywhere
- some (gmail) offer a lot of storage
- spam/junk filters
Outlook Express-based
- if you have broadband, you're always logged on.
- mails are on your PC (privacy)
- consumes storage on your PC
- could be accessed from anywhere using mail2web or similar service (new mail)
- prone to spam
I would welcome any other Pros and Cons that you think are pertinent.
FWIW I have both - I use an Outlook Express-based seervice for personal correspondence and hotmail for subscriptions, mailing lists, etc.
MonsieurBond said:You can access eircom.net webmail and the other far superior services such as GMail and most other web-based email services via SMTP (don't think the basic Yahoo! mail offers this as default but the subscription version does) which means you can also access them from Outlook or Outlook Express.
Plus, if still using Dialup and not using Broadband, there is the significant advantage that you only pay when you send and receive emails; you don't pay to compose them.
MonsieurBond said:You can access .. the other far superior services such as GMail and most other web-based email services via SMTP .. which means you can also access them from Outlook or Outlook Express.
TarfHead said:Well, **** me sideways, as Mrs Doyle said.
I did not know that, nor did the mot who was debating this with me.
Is the SMTP set-up documented on their (gmail, hotmail) site ? Do I have to faff around with IP addresses and POP3 servers and that mullarkey ?
colc1 said:I dont understand what you mean in the first paragraph?? Since when did anyone pay to send emails never mind compsoe them I must have missed something here!
DrMoriarty said:(or do you even need invites, nowadays?)
DrMoriarty said:To come back to the original question — I've had a Gmail account for some time, and have configured Outlook to use it as my default account on my home PC
Once you've done that, you can configure Outlook to automatically send/retrieve your emails from any number of Gmail/Hotmail accounts; see here. With Gmail, you have the option to leave messages on the Gmail server (so you can still access them from any computer) or to have them deleted once they're transferred to your Outlook client (i.e. stored on your own hard drive).POP or Post Office Protocol allows you to download messages from Google Mail's servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a programme like Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail, even when you are not connected to the Internet.
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