Al,

Gmail now supports IMAP accounts I believe.  IMAP is much better for  
accessing email accounts from multiple machines.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725

Jim

On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

>
> We have an aluminum iMac, a MacBook, and an iBook accessing two e-mail
> accounts, one for personal traffic and the other for e-lists and
> various subscriptions.
>
> On February 20, Verizon FiOS will replace our Cox cable service. To
> reduce the hassle of changing e-mail addresses in the future, I opened
> a Gmail account for my e-lists and subscriptions using POP mail.  So
> far, this seems to be a very nice way to go.  And lately, there seem
> to be fewer complaints about Gmail service in the lowendmac.com lists.
>
> What are the downsides of using Gmail?  For our personal account, are
> there good reasons for using a Verizon account instead of Gmail?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Al Poulin
>
> >


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