[TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back up lots of emails off the PC?]

  • From: gulftech@xxxxxxxx
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:24:29 -0500

Ed,

Is "your email archives and address book are held on their Website" a
possible problem?  Could it leave you open to loss of privacy?


Ken Smith
Gulf Technical Services
3034 Gulf Breeze Parkway
Gulf Breeze, FL  32563
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:01:06 -0400 Tel-Tek <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> It does filter it, better.
> I have used Gmail for a year, have yet to get a Spam message. Plus 
> they give
> you 2.5GIG for your Mailbox.
> Also...your email archives and address book are held on their 
> Website...so
> if you accidentally dump...you can retrieve it.
> 
> 
> 
> -Ed-
> -- 
> Tel-Tek Electronics
> Ontario-Canada   
> 
> teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> teltek@xxxxxxxxx   
> 
> 
> > From: Damon <DamonEB@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:28:16 -0500
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back 
> up lots of
> > emails off the PC?]
> > 
> > Really...well heck, I'm going to try it then......just can't 
> figure out how
> > an e-mail program can stop e-mails from being posted to your 
> address.
> > Probably doesn't.....just filters better, eh?
> > 
> > Damon B
> > Telrad Electronics
> > Fort Wayne IN
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Myers" <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:09 AM
> > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back 
> up lots of
> > emails off the PC?]
> > 
> > 
> >> But I didn't change email address, just changed from Outlook 
> Express to
> >> Thunderbird and all the spam disappeared.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ********************************
> >> Since 1972                     *
> >> Jim Myers                      *
> >> Telrad Electronics             *
> >> Fort Wayne Indiana             *
> >> ********************************
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Damon wrote:
> >>> That might be a time -related thing too.....I had my old address 
> for 4-5
> >>> years and got 160 spams a day average, my new address has 1 
> terribly
> >>> insistant spam generated by responding to an ad.....for college 
> tuition.
> >>> How's the wife going to go to college without it?
> >>> Another thing is Joe and John Smith probably get hit more than
> >>> say......Eblehoer Zinderhoffen would,  using their name in their
> > address.
> >>> Damon EB seems to have little. (And now I thank my parents for 
> that god
> >>> awful uniqueness)
> >>> 
> >>> All quiet on the Western Front....for now.
> >>> 
> >>> Damon B
> >>> Telrad Electronics
> >>> Fort Wayne IN
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Jim Myers" <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 1:32 PM
> >>> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to 
> back up
> > lots of
> >>> emails off the PC?]
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> As far as I know........not really know but have been led to
> >>>> think..........Thunderbird is less vulnerable to spam and it 
> seems to be
> >>>> true since I get very little and used to get a lot with Outlook 
> Express.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ********************************
> >>>> Since 1972                     *
> >>>> Jim Myers                      *
> >>>> Telrad Electronics             *
> >>>> Fort Wayne Indiana             *
> >>>> ********************************
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Electric Medic wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> What can't Outlook do that Mozilla Thunderbird can? I use 
> Outlook 2000
> >>> 
> >>> sp3.
> >>> 
> >>>>> It can search old archives, create folders, and so far the 
> folders
> > still
> >>>>> hold mail. Some folders have 15,000 emails. It can backup 
> individual
> >>> 
> >>> folders
> >>> 
> >>>>> or all folders to hard drive or CD. My outlook backup file is 
> 1.3 gigs
> >>> 
> >>> now
> >>> 
> >>>>> and still growing. Just curious how Mozilla and Netscape are 
> better.
> >>> 
> >>> Maybe
> >>> 
> >>>>> it's like these folks that don't like IBM's and swear by 
> Mac's. I never
> >>> 
> >>> used
> >>> 
> >>>>> a Mac.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Perry Bower
> >>>>> Electric Medic
> >>>>> "It's Cheaper to Keep Her"
> >>>>> http://www.electricmedic.com
> >>>>> 3850 Washington Road  Suite 4C
> >>>>> Martinez, Georgia 30907
> >>>>> Phone: 706-8MEDIC4  (863-3424)
> >>>>> Phone: 706-863-3474
> >>>>> Fax: 706-863-2316
> >>>>> mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Phil 
> Bader
> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:51 AM
> >>>>> To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> Subject: [TechAssist] Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back 
> up lots
> > of
> >>>>> emails off the PC?]
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my email.It looks and feels like 
> my old
> >>>>> familiar netscape 4.7. It seems better than Outlook express as 
> for
> >>>>> sorting and searching high volumes of my tech emails archived 
> in
> >>> 
> >>> folders.
> >>> 
> >>>>> I want to be able to drag and drop (copy) the email over to 
> some medium
> >>>>> off the PC like a USB hard drive, DVD,etc. Outlook Express 
> scatters
> > it's
> >>>>> data all over. The old Netscape,I could go to programs, 
> netscape, mail,
> >>>>> users, folders and get the actual mail folders and slide them 
> to a back
> >>>>> up medium. If I wiped the PC HDD clean all I needed do was 
> reload
> >>>>> Netscape, go back to programs, mail, users,etc and reinsert 
> all my
> >>>>> folders back on the HDD and it was all there as before.
> >>>>> I don't see an easy method here.
> >>>>> Any answers to this?
> >>>>> I am terrified I may lose this valuable info. I probably have  
> several
> >>>>> gigs and more than several hundred thousand emails with a 
> wealth of
> >>>>> fix-info.
> >>>>> Phil Bader
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Philip Bader
> >>>>> Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976)
> >>>>> 3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880
> >>>>> Fax (863) 299-8821
> >>>>> email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
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