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  #16  
Old November 5th 18, 09:28 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:04:52 -0600, Mark Lloyd wrote:

Webmail can be convenient when you have to use a different computer (or
let someone else use yours to check mail), although IMAP with a mail
program is better (including getting to make your own backups).

The email I use allows webmail and IMAP with the same mailbox.


Same here, and any differences in handling mail items is generally
cosmetic and a matter of taste. For local backup, and *much*
quicker searching, I find Mailstore very useful. When you get to
hundreds then thousands then tens of thousand of mail items, factors
like availability, security, privacy and so on become important and
it pays to use a proper mail provider service although it may
cost a few dollars a year.
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Old November 5th 18, 10:55 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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I'd look on your system first. It may be stored locally
as well as online. If so it would probably be somewhere
in the app data catacombs, perhaps in a folder for
your ISP.

Couldn't find anything stored locally and doubt there is because 2
computers are accessing the same stuff.

Next option: Look for some kind of
export option in the webmail page. It's typically called
an address book. You should be able to download that
in some kind of universal format.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't familiar with the csv
format which appears to be kind of a spreadsheet. Thanks for this tip.

3rd option: Select and copy the whole thing, then save
to Notepad and include in backups. It's easy and might
save you a lot of trouble sometime. Why not also
print out a copy?

... And of course I'd also agree with everyone else:
Never, under any circumstances, use webmail.

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Old November 5th 18, 11:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"mechanic" wrote

| ... And of course I'd also agree with everyone else:
| Never, under any circumstances, use webmail.
|
| That seems a bit harsh. Email service providers can include secure
| storage and communication in their package, and whether the messages
| are accessed by IMAP or webmail makes no difference to that.

Note the smiley. It was a joke because he
got several responses telling him he should get
off the webmail.

Nevertheless, personally I wouldn't use webmail
and do think the only reason to use it is
inability or unwilling laziness about setting up a
client(s).

The reason is simply that it's not necessary
to allow someone else to handle my email. Why
depend on their storage? Why even allow their
storage? For that reason I also don't use IMAP.
I use POP3, so that the actual data is only stored
on my end and deleted after I download it.

And that's only as applies to ISP email. When it
comes to freebie, spyware webmail, such as hotmail,
gmail, yahoo, that gets into other issues. Do you
want to let sleazy companies read your email,
show you ads, and keep copies of your email,
even after you think you've deleted it? If so then
why? Just because you're too lazy to set
up a client and back up your data yourself? Why
put up with that kind of abuse otherwise? I don't
see any reason to do so. In fact, with my public
email address I tell people that freebie webmail is
auto-deleted. I don't accept it. I accept it on my
personal accounts only because I have no choice.
I'd have to excommunicate half of my family and
friends if I didn't. But I find it outrageous that
Google gets away with storing, copying and exploiting
my email to those people when I don't even have a
relationship with Google.

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do.
Some people already tried to sue Google over that
and the suit was dismissed. If I remember correctly
they had no case because they couldn't prove harm.
That's surprising in context. If I send postal letters
to someone and someone else steals copies that's
a federal offense. But it's OK with email, mainly
because companies like Google established the
precedent early and law hasn't caught up. To use
their product at all is to help them establish a precedent
defining your webmail on their service as their property.

In fact, that's Google's main defense
in court cases: People have no reasonable expectation
of privacy because everyone knows perfectly well that
we're a sleazy, spyware company and that we've
always disrespected their privacy. It's sort of like, "But
Your Honor, they have no basis for pressing charges
because I robbed their bank. They knew I was a dirty,
rotten bank robber, so they had no reasonable expectation
that I wouldn't steal their money when they allowed me
in the door!"


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Old November 5th 18, 11:59 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Mayayana wrote:
"mechanic" wrote

... And of course I'd also agree with everyone else:
Never, under any circumstances, use webmail.


That seems a bit harsh. Email service providers can include secure
storage and communication in their package, and whether the messages
are accessed by IMAP or webmail makes no difference to that.


Note the smiley. It was a joke because he
got several responses telling him he should get
off the webmail.

Nevertheless, personally I wouldn't use webmail
and do think the only reason to use it is
inability or unwilling laziness about setting up a
client(s).


I think there might be another reason. If you want easy accessibility of
all your local email from any of your computers, no matter where you are -
and especially if you are mobile, how are you going to readily do it without
using webmail? I guess the only way is if you have everything somehow
perfectly networked together, no matter where you are, but I can see some
potential limitations even in this approach. That said, I don't know
anything about IMAP, and maybe that gets around some of those limitations.
(I'm just using OE locally here, with a POP3, ISP account, so I just don't
know).


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Old November 6th 18, 12:02 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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| This is exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't familiar with the csv
| format which appears to be kind of a spreadsheet. Thanks for this tip.
|

CSV is a text-based storage alternative to a spreadsheet.
Each element is comma delimited. You can keep it like that,
put it in a spreadsheet, convert it to an HTML file, or any
number of other things if you have a tool or script to do it.
But the comma-delimited version is probably all you need.

ed smith, ed, smith, 29 willow st, anytown, 01234,
ed jones, ed, jones, 18 maple st, anytown, 01234,


That's not hard to read, but if you do any kind of
scripting you can format it more to your liking as
HTML, RTF, etc.


  #21  
Old November 6th 18, 12:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Nevertheless, personally I wouldn't use webmail
and do think the only reason to use it is
inability or unwilling laziness about setting up a
client(s).

The reason is simply that it's not necessary
to allow someone else to handle my email. Why
depend on their storage? Why even allow their
storage? For that reason I also don't use IMAP.
I use POP3, so that the actual data is only stored
on my end and deleted after I download it.

But it's so easy for anyone, not some kind of wiz, to use.

It's worked for me without a single issue for years.

I'm just not that kind of paranoid.
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Old November 6th 18, 12:20 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 2018-11-05, Bill in Co wrote:
I think there might be another reason. If you want easy accessibility of
all your local email from any of your computers, no matter where you are -
and especially if you are mobile, how are you going to readily do it without
using webmail?


I've been doing that for decades, since well before "thuh web" even existed,
by connecting a terminal session to a Unix host. Email is then accessed via
a text-based program run from the shell. Still do it that way. No webmail
required. (In the old days it would be via dialup modem. Today ssh is
the ticket.)

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Old November 6th 18, 12:40 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Roger Blake wrote:
On 2018-11-05, Bill in Co wrote:
I think there might be another reason. If you want easy accessibility
of all your local email from any of your computers, no matter where you
are - and especially if you are mobile, how are you going to readily do
it without using webmail?


I've been doing that for decades, since well before "thuh web" even
existed, by connecting a terminal session to a Unix host. Email is then
accessed via a text-based program run from the shell. Still do it that
way. No webmail required. (In the old days it would be via dialup modem.
Today ssh is the ticket.)


Well, I did say "readily". :-) I'm figuring the typical user doesn't have
access to that.

So, just thinking about someone who owns a couple of Windows computers,cell
phones, and Android tablets, and perhaps travels a bit, IF one doesn't use
webmail, it sure seems to me it would be a bit limiting for them.


  #24  
Old November 6th 18, 01:38 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:40:41 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

Roger Blake wrote:
On 2018-11-05, Bill in Co wrote:
I think there might be another reason. If you want easy accessibility
of all your local email from any of your computers, no matter where you
are - and especially if you are mobile, how are you going to readily do
it without using webmail?


I've been doing that for decades, since well before "thuh web" even
existed, by connecting a terminal session to a Unix host. Email is then
accessed via a text-based program run from the shell. Still do it that
way. No webmail required. (In the old days it would be via dialup modem.
Today ssh is the ticket.)


Well, I did say "readily". :-) I'm figuring the typical user doesn't have
access to that.

So, just thinking about someone who owns a couple of Windows computers,cell
phones, and Android tablets, and perhaps travels a bit, IF one doesn't use
webmail, it sure seems to me it would be a bit limiting for them.


Not limiting at all. Take IMAP, for example. Mail clients on each of
those devices can be configured to use the IMAP protocol. The effect is
that the mail server holds a copy of all of your emails, and each device
merely syncs with the mail server. Whether you're traveling or at home,
it's all the same.

Personally, I see no need to ever use webmail. Like Ken Blake said, I
think that's the worst way to access your email.

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Old November 6th 18, 03:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Bill in Co" wrote

| Nevertheless, personally I wouldn't use webmail
| and do think the only reason to use it is
| inability or unwilling laziness about setting up a
| client(s).
|
| I think there might be another reason. If you want easy accessibility of
| all your local email from any of your computers, no matter where you are -
| and especially if you are mobile, how are you going to readily do it
without
| using webmail?

As Ken said, he just has an email client on his
laptop. I'm like you -- I rarely use any computer
other than my home desktop. But people who
travel can have programs set up on their
laptops. It just means having 2 or 3 programs
to set up rather than one. It's the same with
remote work. Many people log into their work
network remotely.

So I think the idea of needing it for travel is
just another kind of laziness. At worst you'd
just have to keep track of how you store it.
For instance, if you have POP3 on your home
computer you probably don't want it on your
phone because then neither device would have
a complete collection of your emails.


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Old November 6th 18, 03:37 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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| But it's so easy for anyone, not some kind of wiz, to use.
|
| It's worked for me without a single issue for years.
|
| I'm just not that kind of paranoid.

I think what you're doing is different. As I understand
it you're using ISP webmail. So at least it's not
ad-supported, spyware email. Your ISP handles your
email, anyway, no matter how you receive it. So you'd
do well to have backup, but your approach is not giving
access to anyone unnecessarily. And since you presumably
pay for your ISP service, they're probably not trying to
profit by showing you ads.

With things like gmail it's not a matter of
paranoia. I'm not in a controversial minority
and I'm not a criminal. My email is not especially
controversial. It's more the principle of the thing.
What they're doing is very sleazy and they have
no right by any common standard of decency. To
allow it, as I said, is to help them to set a precedent.
And that precedent has very real legal ramifications.

On the other hand, it is slightly naive to think
we needn't worry about problems. We can afford to
think that way because we live in a relatively safe
and free society. But history is full of cases where
people were taken by surprise. Mao's purge
in China. The Jews in WW2. (I once asked a Jewish
friend, whose entire extended family had been lost
in WW2 Germany, why more Jews didn't just leave.
He replied that that was a common question among
Jews. I suspect it was just garden variety laziness
and dullness. Leaving would have been a hassle. And
anyway, what are they going to do? Maybe raise taxes?
We're wealthy, upstanding citizens, after all. It's not
like they're going to raid the neighborhood or gas us
all to death.... woops.)

I half expect that it
won't be long before I'm stopped on the street for
not having a computer phone. Soon it will be
suspicious for someone to move in public without
registering on "public safety" scanners, like stingrays.
It will be like the log-in screens of 1984, except that
the log-in will happen automatically and transparently.
That's the critical part: It's happening for the same
reason Google spying is happening. Because it's
effortless and transparent. It won't require coercion
and in-house cameras.

People who use corporate webmail have their private
correspondence co-owned by for-profit corporations.
Those corporations cooperate with the NSA through
PRISM. Phone calls are similar. It's quickly getting to a
place where privacy will be cause for suspicion.
(As Eric Schmidt of Google said: If you need privacy
then maybe you're doing something you shouldn't be.
He should know. Schmidt famously got a condo with
no doorman to make sure no one would be around to
gossip about his promiscuous sex life.)

The root of the problem is that the big corporations,
the advertisers, and gov't beancounters all have a matching
interest: To know as much as possible about you. And
the net neutrality issue brings ISPs in as potential
enemies of the citizen who can now profit by treating
you like a cable TV customer.
There's no entity that stands to benefit from common
decency except you. Today I saw an encouraging thing,
though:
Tim Berner's-Lee is proposing a "magna carta of the
Internet", to officially establish a right to privacy and
access for everyone in the world. That sounds nice.
If we don't do something it will all be commercially
owned very soon.


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Old November 6th 18, 04:01 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Mayayana wrote:
wrote

| But it's so easy for anyone, not some kind of wiz, to use.
|
| It's worked for me without a single issue for years.
|
| I'm just not that kind of paranoid.

I think what you're doing is different. As I understand
it you're using ISP webmail.


Optimum offers at least three options.

1) Webmail (what Steve using using now)
2) POP3 (with Thunderbird or other third-party tool)
3) IMAP (with Thunderbird or other third-party tool)

But I don't want to muddy the waters by giving Steve
any complicated recipes. And the Optimum page for Thunderbird
commits a "cardinal sin" when it comes to help. This is why
I will only be providing links, if Steve "expresses some
enthusiasm" for screwing around.

POP3, the normal usage model is "the message is stored locally,
and deleted from the server". This creates an archive by
default. This user would partake in local backups, to fortify
the archiving process. There is an option with POP3
to leave the message on the server, but I'm not sure that's
a useful option. (Whether it makes the email "manageable".)

IMAP, the normal usage model is "the message stays on the server,
any computer at home or at Starbucks, could be used to tap
into the ISP-stored emails".

Webmail, the normal usage model is "the message stays on the server,
goofy options may cause messages to be stored more than once,
storage model may be hard to understand if ISP is not
forthright with the details".

Paul
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Old November 6th 18, 01:54 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Paul" wrote

| | But it's so easy for anyone, not some kind of wiz, to use.
| |
| | It's worked for me without a single issue for years.
| |
| | I'm just not that kind of paranoid.
|
| I think what you're doing is different. As I understand
| it you're using ISP webmail.
|
| Optimum offers at least three options.
|
| 1) Webmail (what Steve using using now)
| 2) POP3 (with Thunderbird or other third-party tool)
| 3) IMAP (with Thunderbird or other third-party tool)
|

I think most or all ISPs offer those options. What
I meant was that there's a difference between ISP
email and gmail. Regardless of how one retrieves email,
the former is paid, doesn't show ads, and probably
doesn't have a TOS saying they claim a right to co-own
or read your email. They're more likely to say the
opposite, that there's a limit to how much you can
clutter their service with your email.

It wasn't so long ago that email servers were all
POP3 and had small limits for storage. It was expected
that people would pick up and delete the stored email
regularly, and not leave some gigantic, 75 KB cat picture
clogging their hard disk.



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Old November 6th 18, 04:09 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:10:10 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


I'd agree with the others who say do try a real email client. (And for
long enough to see the difference - two or three weeks at least, I'd
say.)



Yes, two or three weeks, at least. I'd like to stress that again. It's
far too often that someone tries a piece of software for just a few
minutes, decides he doesn't like it, and switches away from it. It
takes some time to get to know a piece of software, learn how to use
it, and find and set all its options the way you like it.


Thunderbird is IMO a good compromise between best and
well-supported - a lot of ISPs, for example, have instructions specific
to setting it up with them, probably including yours.




I've tried Thunderbird, and don't particularly like it. We're all
different and have different ways of working and different likes and
dislikes. That's why it's best to try, not just one, but a few e-mail
programs.

Having said that I don't particularly like Thunderbird, I'll add that
I don't hate it; in my view, it's considerably better than any
web-based e-mail.
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Old November 6th 18, 04:10 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In message , Mayayana
writes:
wrote

| This is exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't familiar with the csv
| format which appears to be kind of a spreadsheet. Thanks for this tip.
|

CSV is a text-based storage alternative to a spreadsheet.
Each element is comma delimited. You can keep it like that,
put it in a spreadsheet, convert it to an HTML file, or any
number of other things if you have a tool or script to do it.
But the comma-delimited version is probably all you need.

ed smith, ed, smith, 29 willow st, anytown, 01234,
ed jones, ed, jones, 18 maple st, anytown, 01234,


That's not hard to read, but if you do any kind of
scripting you can format it more to your liking as
HTML, RTF, etc.


In case it isn't obvious from the above - CSV stands for
"comma-separated values".
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