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- MightyUpsetter, on 03/13/2009, -0/+14This is very stupid thing to do, and your workplace will no doubt be very unhappy that you are forwarding work emails to an unauthorised address
- MightyUpsetter, on 03/13/2009, -2/+11What kind of moron uses an email address tied to their ISP? Are you really that stupid?
- joshhan, on 03/13/2009, -0/+8What happens when you switch ISPs?
You think your ISP email is anonymous? - jotchie, on 03/13/2009, -1/+7The only one that matters, is this:
Matches: is:spam
Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it - emkaysmith, on 03/13/2009, -1/+6@MightyUpsitter -- Wow. Looking at the collected postings on your profile, I see you really *ARE* an *****.
- strib666, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4And when you change ISPs you have to contact everyone you know to tell them your email address has changed, and log onto every website you have registered for to change your email address. If you miss one, you just might be screwed because many will send a confirmation to your old address before they let you change to a new address.
Not to mention that if you use a POP3 account, you usually (by default) download your messages to your local computer, so that webmail your ISP provides doesn't do you any good if you want to look up a message from a couple of weeks ago. Whereas GMail, at least, offers around 8GB of mail storage, so you can keep your mail for just about ever. Most ISPs don't offer near that much storage.
As for having to have your browser open, my browser is open almost all the time anyway, why would I want to load a separate email program?
GMail also offers a good mobile client, and their spam filters are unparalleled. I think I've gotten 2 spam messages in the 3 years or so I've been using it. Not to mention the available calendar, chat and, soon, Google Voice.
I can't understand why anyone would use their ISP's mail. - 5wallace, on 03/13/2009, -1/+5I just wish google would fix its IMAP service and how it interacts with email client software. The Gmail labels and IMAP do not mix outside of the Gmail interface.
- AndrewWiggin, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4@ MighyUpsetter: Speak for yourself. Not everyone works for that kind of company.
"Unauthorized" is a word that just gets tossed around. My work also doesn't "authorize" me to check digg once in a while, but as long as I get my work done, they don't care. - rayraym0fucka, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4He'd get ***** if he pulled that here.
- Thorpe, on 03/13/2009, -1/+4I do like the to do thing. I do like to e-mail myself things to keep me reminded for when I check my e-mail somewhere else. All I do is simply search my e-mail in the 'from' field to bring them up but I will be getting a filter set up to make things a little bit more convenient.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Plus most ISP webmail systems don't come close to Gmail's interface.
- bloaded, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Its fine and dandy that YOU choose to use ISP based email and you asked why would anyone not use it. In all this banter many users have given you reasons why they would not and you've given your personal counter points.
Though your ISP email fits your needs the truth is most of the arguments presented by others offers a convenience to us. You have offered little positives for ISP mail and have spent most of your effort defending the "why you don't need" webmail. - pleaoner, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2He likes to use his ISP's email service through outlook, while others still like to use carrier pigeons. It all comes down to personal preference, whatever works for you.
- Elfboy26, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2awesome! Thanks!
- useraccess, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1So what if your hard drive dies? You do know you can pull your mail in through POP right. Then you never have to have your browser open to get email. Plus you don't have to change your email when you switch ISPs and alert everyone you communicate with on email. It's not a matter of hiding from the FBI or anyone else. Plus you can use your gmail account to transfer large files and do other things. Using ISP email is so old school.
- emkaysmith, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2Okay, I'm sure all you card-carrying techie-types will laugh -- but I use Outlook, and have done for many years. I actually *download* my email and store it on my hard drive, where I get at it. Why would I want to leave it on the ISP's website? I can find it just fine. I have assorted emails stored that date back a decade or more, though I delete within a few days the great majority of what I receive.
BellSouth gives me a fistful of aliases, and I use various names for the different "identities" I have in different aspects of my life -- board member of a couple of organizations, contact person for a couple of others, etc. I have filters set up in Outlook that skim off probably 99.9% of the spam. And NAV takes care of the occasional attack-email that might get through BellSouth -- though their system is pretty good, too. And, like I said, I can logon to my email through BellSouth's webmail site just fine when I travel, either with my laptop (because I don't want to split my email downloads between two computers), or through a hotel's account, or at a friend's home. How is that different from going to the Gmail site?
And I close my browser -- and usually even (*gasp*) TURN OFF my computer -- at night, because there's no such thing as invulnerability. Leaving yourself connected all the time is just asking for it.
I'm involved in a lot of different things and I get maybe 80-100 "real" emails per day, even now that I'm technically retired. I can't understand why anyone (who wasn't hiding from the FBI) would NOT use their ISP's email. - joshhan, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1I would say surfing the internet vs forwarding work emails to gmail are two completely different things.
That's like saying going 2 mph over the speed limit and killing homeless people for sport are both illegal.
Have you asked your company's legal counsel about forwarding work emails to gmail? - yourbrokenoven, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2why would you use anything but default?
- jupiterkansas, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1It's so when you change ISPs you don't have to change your email address.
- Xazos, on 03/14/2009, -0/+1Wow this is so good! Love the folders plugin too
- wassim2k, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1Need something the disables Chat. Gmail takes forever to load while it waits for the chat box to come up.
- shkhan, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1That's really helpful.
- musntSurfatWork, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2I just open todo.txt on my desktop for all my daily reminders.
- emkaysmith, on 03/13/2009, -3/+4What kind of moron can't answer a simple question without sounding like a 12-year old? And why the hell would I NOT use an email account supplied by my ISP when I'm not doing anything illegal? *****.
@joshhan -- I didn't say I thought it was anonymous; I don't *need* anonymous. But I haven't switched ISPs since about 1995, when BellSouth began supplying Internet access. Why would I bother? It sure beats the hell out of Cox, and the reach is much better, and cheaper, than any of the basement-based ISPs in this part of the world. - oda1, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1with Gmail, I feel like a mother feels about her children. Y'know how when someone says something about a horrible event, and then the mother imagines her kids involved and goes 'oh non ononoo' well... the other day someone talked about hotmail being down, and ...
- overaction, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1I had luck removing IMAP folders all together with a recent Google Labs addon.
- rayraym0fucka, on 03/13/2009, -1/+1There is an option in gmail to do that already
- ianbirtwistle, on 03/13/2009, -2/+2I already setup most of these filters.. attachments, social networking, mailing list.. the others don't look to useful and I don't like the fact I have to the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension to stop my labels box becoming a subfolder nightmare. Buried.
- leamanc, on 03/13/2009, -2/+2Must-have? I think I will get by just fine without them, thanks. Gmail searching is so fast and flexible, I don't need filters to keep my messages organized. Whatever I can think of, I can pull up on the fly.
- SocialPoison, on 03/13/2009, -2/+2Depends on your gig. I did that at my first "real" programming job because it was encouraged. Something about the mail client they were having us use being completely fubar.
Then again... that's the difference between small shops and big ones. - snater, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0if your using firefox, install the better gmail 2 add-on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/607 ... - tyran, on 03/13/2009, -1/+0damn, we must have nothing to do all day because all we do is to get here and post comments about how useful these plugins are...
- AndrewWiggin, on 03/13/2009, -5/+4I set up all my work emails (sent to my corporate account) to autoforward to my gmail address to archival/search purposes. The filter is:
Matches: to:(me@work.com)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Apply label "Work"
Also, I use the facebook filter too and then archive all facebook messages once in a while to avoid filling up my inbox.
What do you use? - DontLIE2Me, on 03/13/2009, -2/+1It's cool. I don't know if I will ever get around to doing.
- NicoNicoNico, on 03/12/2009, -4/+2These are really useful. They may seem obvious, but usually the most obvious things are overlooked.
- Danblank000, on 03/13/2009, -6/+1wasnt this here the other day?!
- lear, on 03/11/2009, -8/+2filters are bad-azz
- emkaysmith, on 03/13/2009, -8/+2Okay, I have to confess -- I don't understand why gmail is so popular among non-students. I mean, if you're a kid and you want a private email account your parents can't easily rummage around in -- yeah, I get it.
But if you have a real ISP, then you have an email account, and you don't have to have your browser open to access it. And is there any ISP-supplied email that doesn't also include a webmail version? I use bellsouth (which also gives me free space for my website) and I access the webmail site when I'm on the road, and it works just fine. I can read and reply and write new emails with no problem. Why would I want gmail as well? Or Yahoo-mail, or any of those others? It's not like any of them are even anonymous.
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