Gmail Question

Looks like the OP got his answer? I also use Thunderbird at home, mainly due to having multiple free email accounts from different services. Though the one advantage of creating a rule in webmail is that it works for every method you use to retrieve your mail, such as in a client or mobile email app. If created in Thunderbird, it only works in the client.

Though Thunderbird has an advantage of saving a copy of email locally(offline). And not have to sign-in online to read old email.

MrWizard wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

2oldman wrote:
I knew it wouldn't take long to badmouth Gmail.

Gmail has no advertising. I hate email clients. I love webmail.

Well, one thing about the stand alone email client I use: it doesn't collect, use, and profile all the emails I get so it can sell that data, and direct select ads toward me and the senders of said emails. I love that.

if you have gmail or yahoo
they are still doing that, even though you download them from the servers to your PC, they already know what is in the emails you received

the difference is you are not viewing ads on the email webpage
although the info has been collected

And I'll add that all email services will likely scan your emails. They have to in order to detect spam and possible malware. The question is what do they with the scanned info? Some disclose they may use it for marketing? Others say the don't, though I would take it with a grain of salt as the user has no way of knowing? And we all know that user profile info has become exceedingly valuable?

You may think its safer to use your own domain email from a shared or dedicated server hosting company. But just note that the administrator of the service will have access to your site, and can read your email. So your info is not really any more private?

MrWizard wrote:
What a PC installed email program aka client
Like thunderbird does,
Download your complete emails to the pc (this takes storage space on the pc).

That is one option for configuring Thunderbird !

It can be configured using the IMAP protocol so that most of your folders still live on the server so that they can be access be other PCs, phones or even web based mail systems.

I have a few LOCAL folders (most notably is my Drafts folder so that incomplete email get saved on that PC). This does take an extra step in the setup.

I keep ALL my emails on my PC. Yes, they take space but at a few hundred meg it's peanuts. I don't access email via hand-held gadget so I don't need them to be in the cloud.

1492 wrote:
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You may think its safer to use your own domain email from a shared or dedicated server hosting company. But just note that the administrator of the service will have access to your site, and can read your email. So your info is not really any more private?

Oh absolutely, but I go by the fact that I get no spam on my standalone email client. So I'm guessing if they sell my data, they're doing a poor job of it. :)