web mail vs outlook express

Personal preference is exactly that.. Use what you like.. Let you're wife use OE and you use web mail.. Most ISP providers now have virus scanners included in their mail delivery so as long as you've got a little common sense, neither are as dangerous as they once were.. If you like what you're using.....

Why not stick with what you have?

Hope this helps.

Grif

For the simple reason I do not like to have to wait for a web page to load to read the mail, change folders, compose, etc. OE is real email, you can see all folders, click on one and it shows up instantly, click on any email and it loads instantly, etc.

My cable connection is 15 Mb/s. So I wait on the page to load at their speed.

As far as protection, I use AVG free and have never been infected. And I'm old and have been on line since the 80s.

Wayne

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well,
1. it can't be down unlike the server on gmail
2.more reliable
3. its a seperate app so you don't need to open your browser and go to gmail.com
4. its faster than a web-based e-mail

You know you don't have to choose. Use both. Using "web mail" allows you to access your email from anywhere; work, home, on the road ... Set up your email client (Outlook or whatever) "correctly" and you can save copies locally on your PC and leave copies on the email server for access from wherever.
An advantage to using an email client is that most email clients will allow more control over the styles of email you send. For example changing fonts or inserting pictures ...
I use Thunderbird for netscape.net, netscape.com, hotpop.com and q.com. It works with IMAP, POP and gmail accounts. Each of my 7 email accounts opens in a single Thunderbird window allowing me to check each email account with out having to open 7 separate web pages. There is a tool that should allow me to open my Yahoo email within Thunderbird but I haven't gotten it to work reliably yet ... It works without hitch in Macintosh's OS X.
An additional advantage to Thunderbird is that it can be tied into Firefox so that you can be notified that you have email while you surf the web.