Free -e-mail client(s) ?

"Big Al" wrote

| I use Verizon and they are dropping email service by April 11th. You
| have to migrate to AOL (owned by Verizon).

But isn't that still free for a Verizon customer?
Still surprising, though. I've never heard of a
buyout where customers' email addresses didn't
get grandfathered in. In the case of AOL it seems
even worse. Verizon is not well liked, but at least
they're a normal company. AOL is famous for being
the company for people who never learned how
to use their computer.

"Paul" wrote

| And by the looks of it, I guess not even ISP mail is a sure
| thing any more. What is the world coming to ?
|

Texting. Email is tedious, requiring literacy and
general writing skills. Not to mention the requirement
to gather one's thoughts into a coherent presentation.
"sup LOL" just doesn't make it as an email.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:42:26 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote:

I'd like to remain a cheap-skate. So what is/are a/some
free e-mail client/s ?

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:02:07 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Pfsszxt wrote:
Off-topic---I know ---

Since AOL was created, we have used AOL as our e-mail
service (it has always been free)
Now a new owner is making it into a monthly pay-for-service
busine ss.
So, it's time for me to go!
I'd like to remain a cheap-skate. So what is/are a/some
free e-mail client/s ?
Thanks.

This will tell you why AOL has to cost money.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/24/verizon-gains-aol/

Since Verizon is acquiring Yahoo as well, that leaves out Yahoo Mail.

That leaves Google Gmail I guess. Or maybe Hotmail or
whatever it's called today.

GMX has a pretty good pop/smtp service, but they now allow
datamining/profiling. It became "powered by Google" recently.
Still an option, though, not a single mishap in two years.
Hotmail (AKA live or outlook) is often down.
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And by the looks of it, I guess not even ISP mail is a sure
thing any more. What is the world coming to ?

Paul
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We have a new policy - Google 2012

"Mayayana" wrote in message
news
AOL is famous for being
the company for people who never learned how
to use their computer.

Which may well explain the confusion about what is desired in this thread.
I recall a thread from several months ago initiated by the same OP and which
dealt with email. He never seemed to understand the differences between
email servers, ISPs and email clients.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:13:35 -0700
Mike Easter wrote:

From: Mike Easter
Subject: Free -e-mail client(s) ?

Big head hungry for attention replies to itself again.

Mayayana wrote:

AOL is famous for being the company for people
who never learned how to use their computer.

I thought they were a company that made skeet shooting targets.

Each skeet shooting target says "200 hours free" on it.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/i...collecting-511

Paul

On 15/03/2017 12:25, Paul wrote:
Mayayana wrote:

AOL is famous for being the company for people who never learned how
to use their computer.

I thought they were a company that made skeet shooting targets.

Each skeet shooting target says "200 hours free" on it.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/i...collecting-511


Fun article. :-) (although it refers to 500 hours free)

I'm sure I've got a few of those still. I'll have a look, later.

--
David

On 03/14/2017 10:11 PM, Mayayana wrote:
But isn't that still free for a Verizon customer?
Still surprising, though. I've never heard of a
buyout where customers' email addresses didn't
get grandfathered in

It's free to me as Verizon is just letting us migrate our accounts to
AOL. I have not been invited to do this yet, VZ is phasing this in
slowly. But I've heard everything gets pushed over and you log into
AOL's webmail with your still name.

I'm not sure what new customers will wind up having to do. I guess
you still get a email since all the other services
from Verizon still exist like your account settings and paying bills on
line etc. I find managing my DVR movies etc is easier from their
website than from the set top box.

On 3/14/2017 12:42 PM, Pfsszxt wrote:
Off-topic---I know ---

Since AOL was created, we have used AOL as our e-mail
service (it has always been free)
Now a new owner is making it into a monthly pay-for-service
busine ss.
So, it's time for me to go!
I'd like to remain a cheap-skate. So what is/are a/some
free e-mail client/s ?
Thanks.

GMAIL as web mail than only a browser is required - all free and good
spam filters

Backup GMail using T-Bird IMAP and/or free UpSafe GMail Backup

Zaidy036 wrote:

GMAIL as web mail than only a browser is required - all free and good
spam filters

Backup GMail using T-Bird IMAP and/or free UpSafe GMail Backup

2017 Jan article on gmail backup:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ultimat...-gmail-backup/
15 ways to backup your Gmail


There aren't really 15 practical ways, but he mentions and compares
UpSafe and Gmvault as well as client strategies also covered in the
comments section.


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Mike Easter

On 3/15/2017 7:12 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"Mayayana" wrote in message
news
AOL is famous for being
the company for people who never learned how
to use their computer.

Which may well explain the confusion about what is desired in this thread.
I recall a thread from several months ago initiated by the same OP and which
dealt with email. He never seemed to understand the differences between
email servers, ISPs and email clients.


well, I have managed OK through 2 versions of TRS80, all versions
of DOS and every version of Windows (ex: the few NT versions)
and I have nothing to do with the servers -- they're elsewhere.
But if it's unclear at all, I mean the software that's on my desk
and the service I get to use it.

"Pfsszxt" wrote

| He never seemed to understand the differences between
| email servers, ISPs and email clients.
|

| if it's unclear at all, I mean the software that's on my desk
| and the service I get to use it.

You're still conflating two different things. The
service is something like AOL or Verizon or GMail.
In your case it's AOL. The software (client) is
something like Outlook or Thunderbird. TBird is a
free email client. It is not a service. GMail is a
free email service. It is not a client.

The two things have no direct relationship. You
get an email account and then you set up your email
client (the software) to retrieve your email and
allow you to send email. The client software does
that by communicating with the email server.

So what everyone is wondering is whether you
want a new email service to replace AOL, or a new
email client. It sounds like what you really want is
the service.

You may be confused if you've been given some
kind of official AOL email software. It could then seem
that the software and service are one. They are not.
Just as with the AOL browser, which was just a
skinned copy of Internet Explorer, AOL tries to hide
the Internet and make it appear that going online
is the same thing as going to AOL. It is not. You
could get your AOL email through any email client.

My first experience going online was through a friend's
AOL account on his computer. I looked all around the
AOL shopping mall but couldn't figure out where the
Internet was. I finally had to ask a friend in tech support
how to "go to the Internet". He explained that I had
to sneak out a back door at AOL.

Pfsszxt wrote:
But if it's unclear at all, I mean the software that's on my desk
and the service I get to use it.

AOL can provide service in the form of dialup. AOL software can provide
a desktop suite and an icon on your desktop. AOL mail can provide mail.
The latter 2 of those 3 are free, the dialup service isn't.

But, none of that is changing, so the first part of this thread is still
confusing.

Since AOL was created, we have used AOL as our e-mail
service (it has always been free)
Now a new owner is making it into a monthly pay-for-service
busine ss.



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Mike Easter

On 3/14/2017 7:49 PM, Nil wrote:
On 14 Mar 2017, Pfsszxt wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Since AOL was created, we have used AOL as our e-mail
service (it has always been free)
Now a new owner is making it into a monthly pay-for-service
busine ss.

No, they are not. Free AOL accounts are still free as they have been
for many years. They have announced no plans to change that.

Where do you come up with this nonsense?

as I recall, (and I'm well past 82 years old so my memory
isn't what it once was :-( they first left their intent
cryptic enough that it was unclear that it would continue to be free.