Hi Alexandar, Bruce: > Alexandar: Is that because of the web interface?
You can also use Gmail with a mail program and use Google's servers merely as relays. That's what I have been doing for ... lemme just check the mail archive... 4 years. Give or take. For this, you can use either IMAP or POP3/SMTP. Instructions can be found somewhere in the profane depths of Google's help pages. If you want to use POP3/SMTP like I do, your POP3 server is pop.gmail.com, you use port 995 and SSL to connect to it. Interestingly, SSL is mandatory (and pretty much always was). Your SMTP server is smtp.gmail.com with port 465 and also mandatory SSL. Your MUA/MTA should be able to deal with authentication details (passwords) on its own. For sending, you may want to select "authenticate with POP3 before SMTP" if your client gives you the option (not sure if it's mandatory, but works for me). > Bruce: I agree. I've been using POP3S from GMAIL for about 10 years. I like seamonkey's client for local access. Alex: I'll repeat my previous E-mail exchange with my friend integ, in even simpler words to make it, hopefully, even more legible: My friend integ sent me a "link" (for me to go to and peruse) but apparently due to the length of the link, I _assumed_ he had to break it in two and then recommended I copy and paste the two parts for me to form and use the original, correct address. I told integ that in my experience with Gmail, my links, no matter how long, seem to always arrive at the destination in one piece, ready for the addressee to use. As further proof I re-sent him his original address using Gmail, _and_ if he would get it correctly in one piece, ready to use, I dared offer (humbly) Gmail as an alternative in these "tricky" situations. End of story. [As an aside, I can use the _same_ Gmail account from a Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc., with the same interface/features it provides and with the same results.] Am I too simplistic in sending my E-mails? Should I know, at least some basics, about IMAP, POP3/SMTP and the like before filling in the "To", "Subject" and Text windows in COMPOSE and then hitting the Send button (like for this post)? Clients? Servers? A confused, -- Alex
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