Cathy, I use Mail in the dock of my OSX (the one with the eagle and the cancelled stamp) and Safari, and I am well satisfied with both. There's no charge for Mail, which is a built-in feature of the OSX programs. I have BellSouth's DSL and they will be able to walk you through setting everything up, if you need the assistance. I've had good results from just calling their customer service reps. They used to be awful when Mail was a new feature; all they could tell me was that they didn't support it. (Which meant they hadn't yet been trained about it.) Now, however, they seem to be on board.
You will still get duplicates of the same mail on the webmail.bellsouth.net website, which is a back-up... or can be used if you're out of town or somewhere else where you have to access your mail on someone else's computer. You must be sure not to let that webmail site get too full, clearing it occasionally, also. Otherwise, you'll be wondering why your mail isn't able to get through to you, even though you're deleting it on your Mail program. Mike On Mar 9, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > Is there a cost for using Apple Mail, or are the costs run through > whatever ISP (in my case Bellsouth) one has? > > ---------- > From: ? Brian O'Neal > Reply To: ????? macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: ? Wednesday, March 9, 2005 3:54 PM > To: ??? macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: ?????? Re: MacGroup: RE: web browsers and email clients > [bcc][faked-from] > > I use Apple? Mail and Safari. I quit using explorer when Safari was > introduced. I use Mozilla for web surfing? on my PC, which is also > available for the Mac. I used Entourage in the past. I started using > Apples mail client just to try it out, and have continued to use it. I > do a fair bit of email, more now than when I started with Mail. I have > several rules and mailboxes for different lists. I don't see much > difference in the two. Entourage may be a bit more full featured, but > I > wouldn't know it since I just write and receive mail. > I'm sure both have more advanced features, but until I need them I am > satisfied with Mail. > > Brian O' > > > > > On Mar 9, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > Greetings group, > > Many apologies if this ground has already been covered, but.... > > > > What is the best web browser??? And the best email client? > > > > I finally got my settings right to be able to go wireless on > Bellsouth > > DSL at home and I am dropping aol once I get my address book copied > > into the address book that came with my G4 laptop running Panther > (OS > > 10.3).? I don't like the Bellsouth email and I understand that I can > > use any email client. > > > >? But then I hear there are email programs that allow you to have > email > > going to different clients, where this program (like Incredimail, > for > > example) goes to all your inboxes and pulls all those emails into > it.? > > I have MS Entourage as part of the MS Office 2004 for Mac bundle, > but > > don't know if that's the better of the options available.? > > > >? As for web browsers, I have Safari, Netscape and Explorer, but need > > to trash stuff to free up space...? Any insight would be most > > appreciated.?? > > > >? Cathy > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 5869 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050310/b5ca160d/attachment.bin
