I asked my son and he uses outlook.com which I think is basically webmail except it looks like Outlook. I think because he has an old Hotmail address.
But yes, Gmail webmail is probably the answer, except then I have to look like a bad guy explaining that yes we will let you keep your 15 year old email address with us but we really wish you wouldn’t. And yes we have webmail, but then people leave every message they have ever received in their Inbox and eventually hit their storage quota. And that leads right back to the conversation that if you’re gonna do that, you need to switch to something like Gmail where they let you have virtually infinite storage. This question though came up from an old farmer customer who bought a new computer and didn’t want to pay for Office. Chuck’s comment about Windows Live Mail makes sense, but I thought that died along with Windows 7. Maybe you can still download it as a standalone. The problem with Windows 8 Mail is it only supported IMAP, and our customers are too stupid to use IMAP, or if they switch to IMAP they can’t understand that it works different than POP, like I deleted this message off my phone why is it gone now from my computer? Don’t try to explain the difference between local and server based folders to an old farmer. Much less explain that POP can only see the main inbox folder on the server and once you have a device using IMAP, it creates other folders like Sent, Deleted and Junk which are invisible to your POP clients. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 9:38 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] email client I was wondering if GMail would be the serious answer. Still wondering what Adair is trying to say. I'm in a bit of a transition at the moment where I used GMail for several days straight. I concluded that webmail sucked in 2005 and it still sucks in 2019. I'm still curious what Adair has to say, but if he says "GMail" then I'll go ahead and say he's crazy. -Adam On 9/17/2019 10:34 PM, Dan Parrish wrote: having google index all your personal correspondence, harvest contact and network information, and inject ads I can't imagine /not/ using an email client and running email on controlled servers in 2019. On 9/17/2019 9:04 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: So what's the alternative? 'splain it to me like I'm an old man who likes his email client. On 9/17/2019 9:53 PM, Adair Winter wrote: I can't imagine actually using a mail client in 2019.. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:53 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote: Do any of you have an email client you recommend to people who don’t buy Outlook? I checked out the Mail app in Windows 10, and IMHO, it really sucks, I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Adair Winter VP, Network Operations / Co-Owner Amarillo Wireless | 806.316.5071 C: 806.231.7180 <http://www.amarillowireless.net/> http://www.amarillowireless.net <http://www.amarillowireless.net>
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