Email Client vs. Web Email

[kitekrazy]

 Anyone still using an email client like Thunderbird or The Bat or are you using your email accounts via the web.  Advantages or disadvantages for either? Yahoo kinda sucks for correspondence.

[synkrotron]

I'm still using a client because I like to be able to save a backup of certain emails to my hard drive. And there have been a couple of times when I needed access to an email when the internet was down. But that is a rare occurrence, I have to admit.

My lad thinks I'm a bit daft for doing so and he is webmail all the way.

I put it down to our age ...

 

[Notes_Norton]

I still use a client.

I want to keep a copy of many of my e-mails, especially customers in both my band and band-in-a-box businesses, and I want them accessible off-line.

I also don't want google or yahoo reading them and adding to my dossier :O

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[mdiemer]

At the risk of being labeled a conspiracy theorist, I think email, or desktop clients, are safer than web-based email. Your email resides on your IP's server, rather than with a company like Google or Yahoo.

[kitekrazy]

15 hours ago, synkrotron said:

I'm still using a client because I like to be able to save a backup of certain emails to my hard drive. And there have been a couple of times when I needed access to an email when the internet was down. But that is a rare occurrence, I have to admit.

My lad thinks I'm a bit daft for doing so and he is webmail all the way.

I put it down to our age ...

 

 Which client are you using?   I had a product no longer developed call Thunderstor for Thunderbird and still works.  It had to convert the Thunderbird format to something usable.     As web masters get less competent deleting accounts and proof of purchases those backup files came handy.   

[Cookie Jarvis]

I use MozBackup to backup both Firefox and Thunderbird...it's no longer under development but I used it last year to move my profiles, bookmarks, emails, etc. from my Windows 7 laptop to a Windows 10 laptop. Worked a treat!

Bill

[aether.roots]

I'm on the other side here - totally cloud based for quite some time now.   My main email provider is Hushmail.  I use the paid service because I can create aliases whenever I need a one-off or temporary email.  I pull down backups as needed.

[Grem]

I use Outlook. Gave up Thunderbird when they dropped development on it. I had used Thunderbird for years too.

 

But that said, I have Outlook 365 and Gmail, 1and1 email. Last two are web based. Only one account from 1and1 is connected to my Outlook client.

[bitman]

One thing you can do with an email client is install and use anti-spam software of your choosing. With web mail you are at their mercy in terms of what spam filter if at all is used. If you use outlook, then for every antispam program there is surly a plug-in for it.

Spam fighter is one.

[synkrotron]

10 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

 Which client are you using?   I had a product no longer developed call Thunderstor for Thunderbird and still works.  It had to convert the Thunderbird format to something usable.     As web masters get less competent deleting accounts and proof of purchases those backup files came handy.   

Hi

I have been using eM Client for a few years now:-

https://www.emclient.com/

It is worth doing some further research. I did some, but I found the amount of stuff available a bit overwhelming. At the end of the day I wanted something which was not connected to google, microsoft, mozilla, all that stuff and I think eM Client is not related to any of the "big providers."

eM Client is free for non-commercial use and for up to two accounts. I paid the £30 one of payment just for the "VIP Support," although I haven't needed it yet.

It is worth noting that although I use a client I do not have it downloading all my e-mails from my e-mail provider. This is an option, IMAP vs POP3. This means that if I have to I can still access my incoming e-mails via a web browser. My e-mails are only removed from my provider server when I delete them or move them from the inbox to a folder on my computer.

cheers

andy

[mdiemer]

My IP actually recommends Thunderbird, although I was already using it. It's hard to beat. I did try eM Client, but found it a bit bloaty.

[msmcleod]

I use Thunderbird too. 

I much prefer it to Outlook.

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

Thunderbird for me ...Enjoy a glass whilst reading my emails

[abacab]

I would recommend using a client with a cloud based email service that both support the IMAP protocol, such as Thunderbird and Gmail (and others).

The advantage to doing this is that the cloud based email can still be accessed,  if needed, from anywhere using web mail (or a mobile client) if you are away from your main email client (for example from a mobile phone, a laptop, work, a friends computer, etc).

The IMAP protocol (which can replace POP/SMTP) provides for instant two-way sync of all your mail folders including inboxes and sent mail, accessed from any device that can sign into your email account.

This way, your main client on your home PC can become your backup repository for all of your cloud  based mail folders via IMAP, while giving you the flexibility to have complete access to your email from anywhere/any device.

Use IMAP to check Gmail on other email clients:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

Edited January 30, 2019 by abacab

[synkrotron]

5 hours ago, abacab said:

I would recommend using a client with a cloud based email service that both support the IMAP protocol, such as Thunderbird and Gmail (and others).

The advantage to doing this is that the cloud based email can still be accessed,  if needed, from anywhere using web mail (or a mobile client) if you are away from your main email client (for example from a mobile phone, a laptop, work, a friends computer, etc).

The IMAP protocol (which can replace POP/SMTP) provides for instant two-way sync of all your mail folders including inboxes and sent mail, accessed from any device that can sign into your email account.

This way, your main client on your home PC can become your backup repository for all of your cloud  based mail folders via IMAP, while giving you the flexibility to have complete access to your email from anywhere/any device.

Use IMAP to check Gmail on other email clients:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

Yeah, like I said above:- 

21 hours ago, synkrotron said:

It is worth noting that although I use a client I do not have it downloading all my e-mails from my e-mail provider. This is an option, IMAP vs POP3. This means that if I have to I can still access my incoming e-mails via a web browser. My e-mails are only removed from my provider server when I delete them or move them from the inbox to a folder on my computer.

 

[kitekrazy]

 I guess there is an extension for TBird to save individual emails and different formats.   Ease of archiving is what I look for. The one that comes with Windows I think you can do that.

[abacab]

7 hours ago, synkrotron said:

Yeah, like I said above:-

It is worth noting that although I use a client I do not have it downloading all my e-mails from my e-mail provider.

You can set your client to download all email to a copy of your folders as they arrive so that you have a local copy, AND leave them on the server for web access.

[mdiemer]

I can access my emails from my IP's own Web Mail app. So, wherever I go, there my emails are.

Edited January 30, 2019 by mdiemer

[Øyvind Skald]

I use Mail by Microsoft.

Bu have har sine trouble with it. Might change, but then to something secure. Not to a google app or the like.

[bjornpdx]

Thunderbird here but I have to check the server to see what's in the spam folder. I haven't figured out how to download the spam  to a folder on my computer and don't really want to do that anyway but once in while a legitimate email lands in the junk folder.