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Topic: Webmail vs. Email Programs.
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Thomas Dieter
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 234
From: Yakima, WA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-26-2005 02:43 AM
Okay, for a while now, I've had a Gmail account that I was invited to have, then I was offered on by Gmail, so I have 2. Makes no sence I know, but don't ask. I have 4 email addresses. 2 with Gmail, 1 with Yahoo, and 1 with a forum site I use to moderate. With that said, Yahoo only allows you to use the webmail version, unless you pay to use the pop server. My forum email address, I can only use an email program. But Gmail, I can use either.
With Yahoo, I have come not to use as my primary cause of all the spam. I've had the email since I was in high school. With my Gmail, I've used both an email program and a webmail, and from experimentation, I like the webmail better. And with my forum, I've been using Mozilla Mail witch has worked fine.
Here are my pros and cons about using a mail program.
Pro: You always have the email, and you have no limit on the number of email you can have.
Con: To hold every email for reference, you need to keep adding memory to your computer.
Pro: You don't have advertisements on the page, unless they are in the email.
Con: There's another program on your computer you have to open for internet use.
Con: If spam comes through, you have to sift through all your emails to delete them.
Con: If there's a virus on the email that your anti-virus didn't catch, and you have the preview pane on, your computer is now infected.
For my Webmail pros and cons;
Pro: The email is never on your computer, so memory is never an issue.
Con: There's always a limit on the size storage.
Pro: Gmail has 2 gigs of email storage space and growing.
Pro: You only have to use 1 internet based program.
Pro: Gmail keeps your emails in a message form, so you never have to look for previous emails if the sender didn't keep the message.
Con: Yahoo has all the ads through out their webmail and site.
Con: Yahoo tends to have alot of spam, granted, since they implemented spam blockers, it's gotten a little better.
Pro: Most webmail services have an anti-virus program, usually Norton, to delete the email or virus, and your computer is never exposed to the virus say you download the email to your computer.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-26-2005 06:17 AM
POP email pro: if you use a reasonably secure email client (e.g. Eudora with the 'disable HTML executable content' option in use) together with a decent firewall and antivirus package, you are about as safe as anyone can be from malware in messages. Anyone who is dumb enough to use Outlook Express deserves all they get, IMHO.
POP email pro: Your email client program will probably have more versatile editing facilities than a web interface - e.g. you can indent quotes with a margin, or insert images into your message. That having been said, the MS Outlook web interface is pretty good; but I don't like the fact that most of its features will only work through IE.
POP email con: it's often impossible to send outgoing mail from a remote location (e.g. via a wi-fi hub in a hotel room or airport departure lounge), as some POP servers won't accept messages except from your usual dial-up or DSL location.
Web-based pro: You can use it anywhere there's an internet conncetion - wi-fi hotels and airport lounges have the same functionality as the home or office.
Web-based con: it's potentially less secure. Once you've downloaded a message into your email client and deleted it from your server, then - theoretically, at least - that message is gone from the Internet and only exists in the sender's and recipient's computers. OK, we've all heard stories about how all email is kept by shadowy secret service agencies for ever and ever Amen: but even if that's true, I'd speculate that your message is less likely to be divulged to a third party than if it was stored on a web-based system. I've also heard stories about how Google and Yahoo scan the text of your email for keywords which are then used to target advertising spam at you. There's also the risk that if you store address book data and stuff like that on a web-based email system, that this could be used for spamming purposes as well.
All but one (which I hardly use anymore) of my addresses have both, which I do find I need. Mail2Web is also very useful if your email account doesn't have a web facility - you don't even need to remember the POP and SMTP server addresses.
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