Gmail ???

[E. Hoon Shim]

I use both, I have Thunderbird download copies of the emails from  my 
gmail account, between the Thunderbird spamfilter and gmail's filter, I 
get maybe one spam/scam a month.

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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 12/17/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Wondering if ANYONE, has gone full gmail account, and drop
>> Thunderbird ...etc and just using gmail for sending and receiving emails.
>>
>> I mean 100% usage
>> if So, please tell me how it is, any problems...
>> and what are the major advantages, say comparing a ISP service,
>> and using a client app say thunderbird compare to a web browser...
>>     
>
> /me did a long time ago.
>
> The advantages: the GMail's spam filter is good, the built-in search
> engine is awesome, the quota is huge, I can read my e-mail from
> anywhere in the world (even from my cell phone), labeling mails is
> much more useful than using folders, you can apply filters, you have
> integrated IM, and so on.
>
> The disadvantages: you get ads, you leave your e-mail in hands of a
> third-party, if GMail goes down you won't be able to read you e-mail,
> and so on.
>
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