Switched to webmail
For the past few weeks I have been doing all my email activity through Google’s gmail rather than using Apple Mail. I started forwarding all my personal and work e-mail to my Gmail account months ago for backup purposes so I could have two copies.
But the more I use gmail the more I enjoyed it, and then a few months ago gmail added a new feature. A new feature that allowed me to sent mail from my other e-mail addresses. That’s when I decided to use all my email activity from Gmail. Why spend more time and resources running a separate mail program when you can open your mail from your browser?
To send e-mail using Gmail from other e-mail addresses, go to your Gmail settings, and then go to the Accounts tab. Add another e-mail, and google will send you a confirmation e-mail. Once you received the mail and confirmed, you’ll be able to select your alternate email address when you compose mail.
Yahoo! is also in the process of upgrading it’s webmail interface. Just like Gmail, the new yahoo webmail is going to be an AJAX application. Judging from the Yahoo Mail Beta Review.
The new interface of Yahoo Mail looks very nice. Hopefully, the new Yahoo Mail will allow me to send e-mail from my other e-mail accounts and provide conversation (threaded) feature when viewing my email. Another interesting feature of the new yahoo mail is it allows me to drag and drop messages into folder, which makes it more like a desktop application.
Walt Mossberg from Wall Street Journal also wrote a review on Yahoo! mail beta.
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