I primarily use Google Mail and am quite happy with the web based email. I would like to know why I should use a program like Apple Mail to do my emailing? Why should I waste the extra bit of RAM. What advantages are there with a dedicated program?
you click on the icon and voila, there's your mail...it uses barely any resources
If you plan on still using Google mail thru the web interface, I wouldn't recommend that you use Mail.appI primarily use Google Mail and am quite happy with the web based email. I would like to know why I should use a program like Apple Mail to do my emailing? Why should I waste the extra bit of RAM. What advantages are there with a dedicated program?
I go all out and delete my message after it gets POPped to Apple Mail, but you can have it archived too. It's hard to keep two filing systems, so I chose Apple Mail to do it instead of the web interface.aristobrat said:IMO, it's a PITA to keep everything in sync with POP services like Google. (i.e. you delete/file something in Mail.app, it'll show up in webmail as undeleted/unfiled -- and vice-versa).
Yeah but you will have to configure your client all over again when you reinstall or something. And web based mail would take only one or two more clicks and very quick set up on a new computer and its cross platform.
I can keep a bookmark on my browser main window and just open my browser click on gmail and there it is.
A little OT, but is IMAP any better? And what email services offer IMAP? I use web mail right now just for this very reason of being able to view my mail from anywhere and keep it all in sync.IMO, it's a PITA to keep everything in sync with POP services like Google. (i.e. you delete/file something in Mail.app, it'll show up in webmail as undeleted/unfiled -- and vice-versa).
A little OT, but is IMAP any better? And what email services offer IMAP? I use web mail right now just for this very reason of being able to view my mail from anywhere and keep it all in sync.
Yes, it will work leaving the mail on the POP server, but then if you delete it from one email client or from web mail it still shows up everywhere else. If I want to run mail.app on my desktop, my laptop, and outlook at work, plus web mail from anywhere else, I would have several places to have to go to delete a file.I'm not familiar with IMAP, but can't you just tell your Email clients to leave the mail on the server until you deleted it? My business partner is after IMAP for having his stuff in sync, and I can't figure out why my POP3 solution of leaving the mail on the server won't work.
I'm not familiar with IMAP, but can't you just tell your Email clients to leave the mail on the server until you deleted it? My business partner is after IMAP for having his stuff in sync, and I can't figure out why my POP3 solution of leaving the mail on the server won't work.