I am moving on from Yahoo! as my webmail client. Gmail has matured to the point that I can comfortably route all web mail through them. My Gmail account allows me to send mail using my standard e-mail address - you wouldn’t even know I was sending it from Gmail. My standard account is setup to auto forward all incoming messages to Gmail, so I can read them either online or in my mail application. In addition, I setup my mail application (Thunderbird) to BCC all sent mail to Gmail. Gmail auto archives the messages from my standard e-mail address with an appropriate label for easy filtering.
So not only is Gmail my access point on the web for all of my e-mail, but it has also become a complete backup (going forward) of each and every e-mail I send. Fully searchable, and quickly searchable. After all, it is Google.
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We keep talking about getting my e-mail backed up. We should do this; your system sounds tight.
You can actually do a lot of this already. There is a forwarder option under the Cpanel’s e-mail settings. I just entered my bjhess.com address and my gmail address. I can get you a Gmail account. Then you can change the settings in there to send as whatever e-mail address you wish to use.
The only thing remaining at that point would be to set you up with an e-mail application to pull all the e-mail to your computer and remove it from your webhost server, being I know your e-mail gets full from time-to-time. Then you’d have a copy at Gmail and on your home PC.
All your base are belong to Google.
seriously though, gmail is probably the best webmail system I’ve ever used (though I hear good things about the new Yahoo! mail beta).
That’d be funny if I left for gmail and then Yahoo! actually gets good. Of course, I bet they still won’t allow things like mail forwarding for free.