**MWEB UNCAPPED HELP**

[LazyLion]

Been using gmail for business for 5 years now. Never had a problem. It's the perfect business tool. It's ready on hand on any PC and on my cellphone. Hooks in with Google Docs and Google Calendar. Easy to forward entire conversations and attachments. All my stuff is backed up online and on my PC and I can search my e-mail as easily as if I was searching the web.

I can also send and receive e-mail inside Gmail as if I was sending from my company domain and the recipient is none the wiser.

The fanbois are right... Gmail is the perfect E-mail application!

 

[Nimz]

I wanted to check the usage to see my average for the month

The mweb email just for registering on sites without having to give my personal email address.

Still cant seem to check usage etc on the link provided

Thanks anyway

 

[PeterCH]

What would you use for emails instead?

Well, look at it like that. Having a paid email from an ISP shows you're a more legit person than someone sitting in an internet cafe in some hell hole with an intent to scam you.
Secondly, gmail is great when it works, but Gmail has been known to close accounts or suspend them and you then have no recourse. Their opinion is final.
Thirdly, gmail scans your emails and never deletes them. It's a serious privacy issue. How much info do we want to share with Google?
Fourthly, gmail is a foreign company and email stored there could be accessed without the same legal steps required in say - SA.
Gmail is far away - not sure of co-location and local geocaching but it won't be faster than ISP email.

If the email is very important I would use a domain name, possibly bought out for a few years in advance with a dedicated email host - for whom I'd pay a 10-20 USD per year. There are such email providers. They offer better backups and sometimes exist in countries like Sweden which have very strict privacy rules.
For main email I'd use the ISP's email if I was happy with the ISP and intended to stay with them in the medium term. When moving, I'd email all my contacts and change all my relevant settings - eg PayPal account, Banking email, etc to a new provider and then email everyone on my list with my new email addy.
For play email or social email and for spam sign ups I'd use gmail, hotmail, hushmail etc.

 

[Nimz]

crazy n00bz are coming out of the woodwork

Is someone that asks a valid question automatically called a noob?

Just because my post count isn't high as yours doesn't make me a noob......

 

[PeterCH]

You can use your own domain name with gmail.

That does not save you from the other ills of gmail (loss of privacy, no recourse when things go wrong, no human customer support, distance, etc) and having a domain name is the ideal ensurer of portability and permanency. Use Gmail if you will, I use my gmail account for junk stuff mostly.

Having a gmail account does make you also look less trustworthy unless you have a domain. Some places also block free email services - I know some online shops, sites and some forums don't allow free email providers - such as gmail, hotmail, etc.

As for mobile access - you can do that with ISP email and third party paid for email solutions. Integration with google docs is nice, but not everyone needs that.

Then there are all these hackers hacking into Gmail accounts. Sometimes they even find a backdoor or some other way in. Security through obscurity is also a nice concept. This last point is probably over done but you never know. I certainly trust people with free email addresses less than people with ISP based addresses.

Gmail is not terrible by all means, just that ISP email isn't as terrible as it sounds. I still use my ISP address from 1998. The ISP has been taken over by MWEB. Switching wouldn't be too difficult for me, I'd just email some contacts, change a few websites and Bob's your uncle.

 

[PeterCH]

Is someone that asks a valid question automatically called a noob?

Just because my post count isn't high as yours doesn't make me a noob......

You're correct. Don't worry about it, I don't consider you a n00b and I've been online since 1994.

 

[ponder]

PeterCH, all I'm going to say is that I have been a gmail user since day one as a beta user, during this time I have had two days of outages with them. Never experienced this with an ISP or even corporate mail servers. I will stick with them and recommend them to anyone else out there.