[AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client

Gustav,

    Would it meet the requirement that all back up is physically stored on my hard disk, retrievable as needed, even if Google were to shut down all their servers ? 

    Underlying objective:
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    Archived messages should be in my absolute physical possession. For accessing these, there must be no scope for being held hostage to any third party's resources / performance / status / fate. (Confining our dependence in this respect to one entity i.e. Microsoft)

Best wishes,
A.D. Tejpal
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gustav Brock 
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 14:24
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client


  Hi A.D.

  At most mail hosts - at least at GMail - you can set up the account to forward each and every mail to another e-mail address to suite your demand for backup. This could be one at a competing provider.
  At GMail you can create accounts as you go - every time your archived mail volume exceeds 7 GB, open another account and redirect the forwarded mail to this.

  For the free web accessed mail services, don't expect everything; there is a reason why they are free.

  /gustav


  >>> adtp at airtelmail.in 05-02-2010 09:39 >>>
  William,

      Thanks for the kind confirmation. One factor that militates against adoption of third party mail client is that if the owning company happens to discontinue the product or fails to bring out matching upgrade suiting future versions of Windows, it can pose a problem in retrieving archived messages stored under the said application.

      Apparently WLM is missing one of the nice features of OE, namely -  hot key navigation. For example, in case of OE, pressing any key in the Copy or Move dialog box (or directly in the folders pane) takes you to the next folder where the name starts with the given character.

  Best wishes,
  A.D. Tejpal
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