Windows 10 headache??

Ed_Gee wrote:

joebedford wrote:
I use gmail WITH a PC client. I also use hotmail with an email client. Did I mention I use Yahoo with an email client? I have some business accounts that I use with an email client.

Why anyone would use webmail instead of a real client is beyond me.

I concur!

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Email clients, whether PC-based or web-based (what I think Ed_Gee is referring to as webmail) perform the same function, i.e accessing email from an email account on its email server and facilitating sending email from the same email account. So, I don't understand what his last sentence means.

Both types of email clients can access email from one or more email accounts (and thus servers).

I think what he must be saying is that he doesn't understand why anyone would use an Internet-based email client instead of a PC-based email client. But the terminology is little tangled up.

If that is the question, the main reason for using an Internet-based email client is to avoid the limiting factor of having your email downloaded to a PC.

If you use a single PC for email access, then a PC client is not a limiting factor except for backup.

If you use multiple PCs and/or smart phones and/or tablets for email access, then a web-based email client is clearly a better choice.

The term Gmail can be a little confusing. The term Gmail refers to the email domain name (gmail.com) and its corresponding email server. The term Gmail also refers to the Internet-based email client that can access email from a user's gmail account and any other email accounts (personal or business) that they own. This is the exact same function that a PC-based email client performs.

joebedford wrote:
I use gmail WITH a PC client. I also use hotmail with an email client. Did I mention I use Yahoo with an email client? I have some business accounts that I use with an email client.

Why anyone would use webmail instead of a real client is beyond me.

I concur!

I use gmail WITH a PC client. I also use hotmail with an email client. Did I mention I use Yahoo with an email client? I have some business accounts that I use with an email client.

Why anyone would use webmail instead of a real client is beyond me.

2oldman wrote:
Consider switching to g-mail. You'll never have to transfer anything.

GMail (or Microsoft's cloud based Gmail competitor, Outlook) is so much simpler than all the solutions suggested so far.

Gmail allows one to get all their emails from whatever email address(s) they now have and have one email solution for any and all devices they have or ever get on. Emails, address book, favorites/bookmarks, etc synced to all their devices. And emails/contacts are accessible on any system they might use in any other location. Backup is automatic, a cloud system feature.

There are always those that question the security of the cloud, or "big brother" watching, whatever.

But once you start using an email system like Gmail, you will never go back to a PC based email client. Even if you only have one device (like a PC), the backup alone is worth the move away from a PC based email client. I have had to tell a lot of people with crashed hard drives that their email and contacts were lost.

Mozback is very simple to use and it works on Win 10. I just used it to restore my backups for Thunderbird and FF on a new Win 10 laptop.

This does not work for Usenet but for Mail, with most mail services, there is a method that works very well, and has a bunch of advantages as well.

WEB MAIL

That is instead of download the mail, including the malware that is in the spams (And occasionally the "Trusted" mails) you let Yahoo or Google or Microsoft deal with the malware and leave the mail on the host site.

Then using any computer.. your desktop, laptop, IOS, Android, Phone/tablet, A computer at the local library.. Even (in one case) a computer at Enterprise (I needed a copy of a utility bill.. Logged in and grabbed a phone bill) .....

You have full access to your E-mail

Accidently drop and run over the computer.. NOTHING IS LOST.

And what's more.. The malware.. Well it stays on the HOST (Yahoo/G-mail/Microsoft) is caught by THEIR virus scanners and never delivered. If you try to download it (I did once, just to see what would happen)( they throw up so many ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS messages that if you are like me you will give up.. I did.. and delted the thing un-downloaded.

Besides the above post, there is also Dropbox, ICloud, Amazon Cloud, and many other Clouds to use.

When I need to do that I just connect both computers to the same Wi-Fi or wired router (I usually go wired for this) then navigate to the directory that contains the neeed files and copy them over using File Manager.. And yes, Windows 10 still has file manager.. Should be in the quick menu (Left end of task/status bar) Manilla colored file folder.

NOTE: you may have to turn on file sharing for that folder

or you can copy it to the PUBLIC folder and copy it over to the new computer from there (into the target folder).

The OP has the right idea. In Mozilla Thunderbird(TB), an email client, all that is needed to transfer email account(s) server and password settings, contacts, locally stored emails, addon extensions and settings, to another computer is to copy the files of one profile folder. That's it! No need to do each step separately which would take a significant amount of time. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, and what I've done in Thunderbird since version 1.

As I mentioned, TB also allows you to place its profile folder on any drive. Allowing the option to secure it by encryption, Mozilla's own best security practices, which is what I do placing it in an encrypted container within My Documents. Mine is further backed up twice daily to another encrypted container on a separate drive. Which makes it possible to restore Thunderbird and Firefox profiles in minutes. No need to re-configure accounts settings, passwords, add-on extensions, etc. And also means that even if the laptop is stolen, and the Windows user account credentials is breached, the thief still cannot access any emails, passwords, personal contacts, or TB account settings as its profile folder has been hardened using strong encryption.

Just be sure you like the Windows 10 mail app befor you go to all the trouble. First look and DW said she did not want to change. No problem. Just put a link on the start menu to her comcast email and one for my gmail. Zero learning curve.