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Well for know I have created a utemad gmail account. I'll see how it goes.

I've also forwarded my normal utemad account to the new gmail account. I wonder if it will filter the copious amounts of spam that the original account gets when it is forwarded?

I don't really need a specific domain name for my email but the last free POP3 provider I used decided to go webmail only and charge for POP3 but that was a few years ago now. Gmail probably isn't going anywhere but they may revoke free POP3 like the last one did all the same. Who knows?

Thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by Utemad

I wonder if it will filter the copious amounts of spam that the original account gets when it is forwarded?

I'd be interested to hear how you go with that!

Well Moose since I have forwarded my original utemad account to the Gmail account I haven't got any spam through it. Been a few hours. So I just forwarded my main account through the utemad.gmail account. Will see how it goes but so far it is looking good. I used to get about a couple of spam emails/hour. Going away for the weekend was painful when I checked emails next .

All this forwarding of accounts doesn't change how things work. The emails that I want still come through as if they were sent directly.

Gmail appears to be a very good free spam filter. Even if you are not visibly using the account

Originally Posted by Bush65

POP3 costs extra for yahoo mail.

No cost, or advertising, and very little spam with gmail.

I don't know about Eudora, but the several mail readers I have used allow multiple accounts, so there is no need to redirect yahoo mail or gmail - just set up another account for gmail with POP3 (and SMTP if you want) settings.

Can you explain this again?
I have yahoo mail and would like to use a mail program like entourage or mail for mac but cannot setup the account.
If I use gmail can i do this, as in send my yahoo mail to gmail then to mac mail or entourage?

Anthony

I answered my own question.
yahoo does pop3 and I have just loaded my yahoo mail to my mac mail program, easy. Though it did take a while for the inbox to download

Anthony

Originally Posted by antvc

Can you explain this again?
I have yahoo mail and would like to use a mail program like entourage or mail for mac but cannot setup the account.
If I use gmail can i do this, as in send my yahoo mail to gmail then to mac mail or entourage?

Anthony

What I had to do with my yahoo email (was a couple of years back, but still the same as far as I know), to enable POP3 or mail forwarding, was sign up for a mail plus account - has an annual fee (about $20).

Log into your yahoo email account. Select options and follow the prompts.

With gmail, go to http://www.gmail.com create an account for yourself. Then log into your account, select settings and choose the option that you want (pop3 or forwarding).

They must have upgraded the email since then. I went to my yahoo account then options and saw there was a pop option, even gives the details for the pop and stmp to enter into a mail program
Anthony

Originally Posted by moose

I'd be interested to hear how you go with that!

I just looked at my webmail and there is a folder labelled spam with 168 messages in it!

I have gotten one spam email into my Eudora inbox and when I checked the webmail there was one more spam email in the inbox that was yet to be downloaded. So that is 170 spam emails with only 2 reaching me. Pretty good I think

I marked the one still in the webmail inbox as spam but does anyone know how to alert Gmail people of the spam once it has been downloaded to your computer and therefore removed from the webmail inbox?