Is spam still an issue these days? Oh wow, look at that. 1586 spam emails in my spam folder for the last month. Gee, I don't miss spam. ;)
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Simon Haigh <[email protected]> wrote: > Been using Gmail virtually since it went live. All my email eventually gets > channelled there one way or another. > > On the desktop I'm accessing the POP via Thunderhead and have it set so that > it doesn't delete the mail on the server. Gives me a local copy for when > I'm at home and I can still access the webmail when I'm on the road via the > phone. > > Big thing I like about it is the SPAM filtering. Probably 99.9% of the spam > I receive get detected by Google and doesn't make my inbox. > > Simon > On 20/05/2011 4:21 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, I recently suffered a few events which are hinting that perhaps I > should move from using a desktop mail client (Outlook 2007 in my case) to > web mail such as Google Mail. Yesterday morning my pst file was corrupted > and I wasted 45 minutes finding scanpst.exe (I forgot it’s name) and running > it over my 200MB file. Luckily it came good. Over the last few months I’ve > helped friends migrate to new machines, and in each case the worst thing was > the mail. One person didn’t have a mail client on Win7, another blew the > size when migrating from Outlook Express to Outlook, another had a pst that > wouldn’t export. This suffering would have not happened if these people had > web mail accounts. > > > > I had a look at Google mail and I can see that there is a feature to “add > account” and it will poll my existing pop3 accounts. This leaves me > wondering about the following issues: > > > > · Security – How secure is Google mail? I have no idea how Google > isolate or handle user’s email. Where is it? Who can access it? Is it > encrypted? And so on... (maybe it’s in their sign-up fine print) > > · Import – Can I import my pst into Google mail? A quick web search > hints that it’s possible. > > · Persistence – Can I be sure that my web mail will remain > accessible to me? Lord forbid that Google goes broke or drops it’s web mail > service. > > · Search – Outlook has a pretty good search facility, so how good is > the Google mail one? > > · Advertising – Targeted ads to me ... Yeechhh! As if I don’t get > enough already on bus stops, TV, radio, food packets, web pages, sky > writing, highway billboards, etc. > > > > These are the first issues that popped into my head. Has anyone else made > the move to Google mail for serious use and found it okay? Any things to > beware of? > > > > Perhaps there are competitors to Google mail I haven’t considered? > > > > I actually have a Google email account, but it’s barely been used ever. > > > > Greg
