Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2008 09:39:25 Dale wrote:
>
>> So Gmail has free POP access?  I like to keep my email locally like I do
>> with AT&T.  So far I have saved almost 27,000 emails from this list
>> alone.  I'm a pack rat.  LOL
>>
>
> gmail has pop - you can leave the mails on the srever, remove them.
> imap - leave them there, shift them off to the local machine.
>
> it's all good it all works. I use the method you do - pop it off google's
> servers and read it locally. Except I'm ruthless with deleting mail - stuff
> gets nuked after 14 days and after that I use google to find a thread on an
> archive somewhere
>
>


I just set it up.  I haven't been on gmail in a long while.  I'm glad my 
password manager remembered the password.  Anyway, after checking on the 
website and finding the instructions and settings, it was a breeze.  I'm 
soooo glad I asked for advise here.  I had no clue GMail had this for 
free.  What's up with Yahoo?  Last I saw they charge for this. 

Now to go test sending emails.  I have never done that with anything but 
my ISP before.  If I disappear for a few days, I screwed it up bad.  
LOL  For future reference, my gmail is rdalek1967@×××××.com just in case 
you see a nut posting with that email address. 

Thanks again.

Dale

:-)  :-)