@pwilliams62 wrote:
Why should webmail work better using an email client? I thought that emails from my webmail addresses would still have to be transferred from the PN server to my PC whether it goes into the client or gets displayed my screen?
1. I have no knowledge how the webmail software works but it seems to be connected with the generation of the email listing - I've certainly found and others have corroborated the fact that the fewer emails you have i8n a folder, particularly the Inbox, the best the performance is. i.e. it isn't listing out a lot of email titles. That doesn't happen with a client which simply downloads unread emails. My phone has been working perfectly throughout the period - albeit it seems that some emails are also being delayed so they sometimes arrive out of chronological order.
@pwilliams62 wrote:
Am I correct in thinking that if I used gmail I would have to a send a brand new gmail address to everyone who has my PN webmail address. Just trying to redirect PN emails to my gmail account would be the same as sending them to me in the first place.
2. Yes, unless you're using a domain name system as I am you'll have to advise all your contacts and change all logins that use your email address. A tedious task. I avoided that by immediately registering two domain names when I first bought a connected home computer in 1998 so since then I've always used the same email address, merely changing the redirection each time I've moved ISP, a process that takes less than a minute. At least by switching to a gmail address you can avoid the problem in the future if/when you switch from PlusNet to another ISP.
