On 01Feb2007 19:39, kuiskers <kuiskers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > On 01Feb2007 16:57, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > One approach may be to connect a non-web mail reader to your hotmail | > account. Does it allow POP or IMAP access? If so, you could connect | > something like thunderbird (or getmail or fetchmail, depending on your | > mail setup) to the pop/imap service, and set up your outgoing email to | > use your hotmail address on the headers. | | I've decided to use my favourite email program, kmail, which I use always. Excellent. I notice you haven't set it up to use your kwhiskerz@xxxxxxxxxxx address? | I only use those online email sites for chatting on forums and lists, as I am | wary about contaminating my provider account with spam. I had to create an | email alias with my provider - yes, another identity! alas! If you never tell people about it (whoops!) this doesn't matter. | - but at least I | don't have to go to a web site to write, which is easier. Also, the provider | doesn't allow names longer than 8 characters, so kwhiskerz had to become | kuiskers, which is still in my kde theme, and the meaning is clear, as is the | pronunciation, but it now looks Dutch :-) | | I've noticed that when I hit reply with kmail, a field opens below the quoted | text, while reply in hotmail (and gmail, I think) opens the reply field above | the quoted text. I have never given much thought to top- or bottom-posting, | but simply type my reply into the space provided by the programmers of the | software. Most serious users prefer bottom posting, as you're doing here. It lets the conversation read like a conversation, and lets you include just the relevant context before replies. Top posting both presents reply text without context, and encourages users to not trim the quotes material at all, which aside from making a lot of bloat also makes it much harder for the reader of the message to determine exactly what issues you're addressing. [...] | > with. I'm sure if you say what you want from a service (webmail or not, | > IMAP, POP3, masses of storage, your own domain name, etc.), you'll get | > some suggestions of what to try. | Google's not imap, is it? Which is a free (in both senses, even) imap mail to | try? Google offers POP but not IMAP. You can set it to offer POP and keep the messages in GMail as well. Then you can set KMail to suck messages from your GMail account just as for your telus account, and reply using your "published" address (whatever you end up deciding to use - probably not your ISP, since that may change). | The nice thing about using my provider's email is that I just click 'check | mail in' and all of the mail comes, and they have web access, too. | Unfortunately, it is pop and not imap. POP's ok for me. I keep all my mail folders at home. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ We should measure progress not by how many laws can be passed but by how little governing people need. -- Don Baldwin <donb@xxxxxxxxx>
