I have another suggestions for gmail users. You could use a pdf creater tool that is a program that installs on your computer that shows up as a new printer ( a virtual printer in fact). So when you go to print your email you choose the virtual printer instead of your normal installed printer and follow the prompts to save as a pdf to your harddrive. The email is then on your harddrive to be stored and used as a source for that information provided.
I hope this is helpful and comes through in plain text. Lea-Anne On 29 October 2010 12:47, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kathy, > >> This is quite interesting. What is Thunderbird? Is that your >> internet provider? Or just an email provider? > > It is a free email program that you install and run on your computer. > http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ > > I use Thunderbird to download the mail from my Gmail account to my own > computer, so I don't have to be online to read my mail and I'm not > relying on my email provider to be up and running every moment of the > day to access my emails. I can still choose to read my mail on their > server, and compose and send from there, too. > > Being online might not seem like a big deal these days with broadband, > but it can be essential if you're on dialup or are restricted in some > way to how much time online you have available. Also, I live in the > country, and the internet service isn't always reliable here. > > If you have hiccups with your ISP and can't get online, it can be very > frustrating - especially if your ISP is telling you to refer to an email > they've sent you to resolve the problems and the only copy is on their > server which you can't access 'cos you can't get online! > > This has happened to my sister and her work computer; after that hassle > I installed Thurnderbird on her computer, and every time I went to her > office to work for her I'd open TB and download all her mail from the > server. In that situation it was a backup for her, she didn't use TB to > read and write her emails, but it was there if she ever needed to access > her mail without being online. > > Everyone has hassles at some time or other, and sometimes you just can't > access your ISP's server - for whatever reason at either end. If you've > downloaded your emails, you've got them on your computer to reference at > any time. > > If I'd come to emails after services like Gmail came about, I might not > bother with an email program - and my husband, a software developer, has > told me several times that I shouldn't be using an email program any > more, but should be working only on the web. But I *have* come from a > different background (having first gone online way back in 1992, to keep > in touch with him when he was working overseas) and have my own > requirements, and this suits my needs. > > Being able to save individual emails as discrete files is very important > to me, and not just for my genealogy. > > If your service offers a POP service, then you can download your mail. > You don't have to delete it from your service's server - that's a choice > for you to make. I choose to keep *everything* on the Gmail server, > except spam, but delete many emails from Thunderbird on my computer once > I've read them. > > Hope this helps. :-) > > Wendy > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
