I began with the Internet in the mid-1990s, when Web-based email did not exist. My ISP gave me a CD with applicaions, including Netscape for Web browsing and Eudora for email. 16 years later, I still use Eudora, along with Gmail.
Eudora is known as "client-based" email. Its primary advantages is that all email is available offline. "Offline" meaning on my desktop computer. The primary disadvantage is that all my email is on my desktop computer -- a problem in this day of multiple Internet connected devices, whether my netbook or my iTouch or someone else's computing device.
(I used to employ this work-around on business trips: turn off Eudora so that it would no longer download emails, keeping them on the ISP's sever. On the road, I would use the ISPs' dreadful Web interface for reading and attempting to reply.)
Recently I set up Gmail to get email messages from both of my ISPs. But that meant I got a lot of duplication while at my desk -- both in Eudora and in Gmail.
This week, Google implemented multiple accounts in Gmail, and I took advantage to segregate the two email streams. My original Gmail acct now only gets mail sent to that account. I created a second, secret Gmail account that gathers emails from my ISPs.
On the road, I access both Gmail accounts, getting all my email through the netbook's Web browser.
On the iTouch, I use Google's Gmail software to access my original Gmail account; I configured Apple's Mail app to access email from the second Gmail account.
After two days of use, this new system works well for me.
Eudora is known as "client-based" email. Its primary advantages is that all email is available offline. "Offline" meaning on my desktop computer. The primary disadvantage is that all my email is on my desktop computer -- a problem in this day of multiple Internet connected devices, whether my netbook or my iTouch or someone else's computing device.
(I used to employ this work-around on business trips: turn off Eudora so that it would no longer download emails, keeping them on the ISP's sever. On the road, I would use the ISPs' dreadful Web interface for reading and attempting to reply.)
Recently I set up Gmail to get email messages from both of my ISPs. But that meant I got a lot of duplication while at my desk -- both in Eudora and in Gmail.
This week, Google implemented multiple accounts in Gmail, and I took advantage to segregate the two email streams. My original Gmail acct now only gets mail sent to that account. I created a second, secret Gmail account that gathers emails from my ISPs.
On the road, I access both Gmail accounts, getting all my email through the netbook's Web browser.
On the iTouch, I use Google's Gmail software to access my original Gmail account; I configured Apple's Mail app to access email from the second Gmail account.
After two days of use, this new system works well for me.
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