[Gloucs] The Command line on the internet.

[Tom Llewelyn]

I'll second the use of adblock for web browsing.  Too many sites simply
don't work with text only browsers any more.  Adblock will also remove most
of the ads from your webmail session.

With email, many of the web mail providers also allow POP3 or IMAP access
from a conventional mail client such as Claws or Thunderbird.  If you use
IMAP configured to leave the mail on the server, then you can access your
mail from multiple clients.

I personally use Google gmail for this which supports all the above and
allows me access to mail from the multiple devices I use.  From what I can
see Yahoo only supports POP3 and not IMAP.

Gmail's spam filtering is also pretty good too.

Tom

On 5 March 2012 19:51, Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:33:17 +0000 (GMT), geoff.bagley at btinternet.com said:
>
> > The advantage is that any of the five
> > computers in the family can read the mail where it sits.  I do not use a
> > separate mail client (such as IceDove)  for fear of getting the
> > downloaded mail spit up between numerous separate  client computers.
>
> I understand. The fix for that is perhaps a little complicated, but you
> could have one PC download the mail and make it available to the others
> via IMAP, using Thunderbird or similar; however, that may be a lot more
> work than you want.
>
> > Am I to understand that ClawsMail is a client that downloads messages to
> > the host on which it is installed,  leaving  them  inaccessible to the
> > others ?
>
> It can be, or it can access mail on a remote server via IMAP.
>
> > I guess that  POP  might be the penalty of getting rid of spam and
> > adverts !
>
> Don't confuse POP (POP3), which is a way of accessing mail, with
> downloading and storing mail. Usually mail access by POP3 is downloaded to
> the PC it is read on, but it doesn't need to be. However, IMAP is far more
> flexible than POP.
>
> The bottom line is that you have traded simplicity (web-based mail access
> provided by your IS) for adverts. You can lose the adverts, but you'll
> need more complexity.
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> get what they want" - Zig Ziglar.
>
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