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Many years ago I used Outlook but my computer crashed and I lost all my mail which is one reason why I switched to webmail. Another reason is I switched my ISP provider so in that case I even lost my email address. Two lessons learned the hard way.Pete <---- slow learner
I, too, dislike webmail. Eudora is nearly perfect, but it's become unfashionable, and there's no longer a deep-pocketed developer.
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On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com> wrote:
>> Yes I assume so, Apple webmail so to speak?
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>> So Apple Mail on OSX is just a client where you can accesssyour Yahoo, Gmail, ISP, iCloud email? Outlook being the PC equivalent?
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> My image of "webmail" is using a browser to go to your email provider's website, log in, and read the mail there. Pretty much *my* least favorite method to read mail.
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> Apple's Mail is a client that runs on the Mac (or the iOS device), goes to various sites to fetch your email from various servers, and present it all in an organized and convenient fashion.
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> The dictionary built-in to MacOS 10.9 says:
>> webmail
>> e-mail that is available for use online and stored in the Internet server mailbox, and that is not downloaded to an e-mail program or used offline.
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