Thank you very much for your detailed and informative reply. Your point about employer firewall is very useful. I plan to use Portable ThunderBird to give myself the ability to access my accounts from work and home at using the same application.
I will give a shot soon and set that server option from the get go so that no messages get deleted. Thank and appreciation to you Chris Clifton and to BluesRenegade. Cheers, M On Apr 15, 10:01 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > You can usually access Gmail in Thunderbird without needing the > extensions. Google provides free POP and IMAP access, check Gmail's help > pages for details. If you want to read mails and leave a copy on Gmail's > servers, the IMAP option is probably best for you. > You can use the extensions to read mail from other web mail systems such > as Hotmail and Yahoo, and Thunderbird will allow multiple accounts to be > set up. Hotmail and Yahoo don't offer IMAP access, the extensions will > emulate a POP server, by default Thunderbird, (or any other POP > compliant email program) will download mails and delete them from the > server. There is a check box in TB's server settings for each email > account where you can specify that a copy be left on the server, if you > don't set this option before downloading any mails then mails will be > deleted from the server. > Also note that Hotmail now provides free POP access, most people will no > longer need web mail extensions in TB. > The main exception to being able to use free POP access is if you are > trying to get your mail in work, some employers have firewalls set to > prevent access to the ports used by Google and Hotmail for POP and IMAP. > Also Hotmail's POP access only downloads your Inbox (a limitation of the > POP protocol), using the web mail extension you can also download mails > from any folders you may have in Hotmail. > > > > MRK wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > I am very interested in using Mozilla ThunderBird to access my web > > based email account(s) such as this Gmail account. Does ThunderBird > > and/or the WebMail extention allow me to view my messages on its own > > interface without downloading them to my local drive? I am strongly > > against fetching my email do one local drive and losing the ability to > > access it from everywhere else. > > > Additionally, is possible to access more than on Gmail account (or a > > Gmail and that of some other service such as Hotmail or Yahoo > > accounts) using the same program/extention? > > > If this is possible for Gamil, is it possible for Yahoo or Hotmail? > > If yes, it will help everyone in the family. > > > I hope no one is bored with my inquiries. I am new to this topic and > > would like to be safe in keeping my messages where I can access them > > from everywhere while having the convenience of using an email client > > software, such as ThunderBird, while I am on my own machine i.e. I > > want the best of both worlds; having my cake and eating it. > > > Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions. > > > Cheers, > > M > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
