I've been using a version of Gmail for many years, which was custom-built for older computer users by someone who's now at AgeUK. After being ultra-reliable, it's just gone wrong, due to a problem with its web server not responding to the hosting provider - and of course there's no easy way to contact the system manager. I've just found out the hard way just how over-fragile the IT support system for that essential e-mail account really is.
I really should have set up a replacement for my old Wanadoo e-mail, when that ceased to be provided in the UK by its final owner but - of course - I didn't get around to it because I already had an apparently reliable e-mail account that I was used to using daily. Ideally, I would get a free webmail account which automatically downloads e-mails to my computer and can collect incoming ones from this Gmail account - when that becomes possible.
What do people recommend for this purpose, please?
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i still use yahoo.com
i have 2 - G mail and outlook [used to be Hotmail]
You can have multiple Gmail accounts, and connect them together in myriad ways to gather your existi..
@Di... Just use a bog standard GMail account, set it to IMAP (Settings > Forwarding, see attached i..
... as Mike explained!
If you are feeling brave enough to try something a little more 'techy', Gmai..
@Pe... Agreed...and my screenshot above shows how to get to the Labels setting
Aren't you all wonderful! Thanks so much for all these helpful responses.Today didn't start off any ..
@Mi... How do I find the e-mail settings menu that you've screenshot, please? My Gmail account won't..
wow - I 'm glad I haven't got this problem, all the info has completely baffled me.
@Di... settings are found by clicking on the little wheel
As @An... showed in her screenshot, you can create labels as you need them. As you go through ..
@Bo... Google is your friend! :-) Seek and you will find. You type a question in AS IF YOU WERE TALK..
... and here is one example - - reply to Diana from Google, where are the email settings menu in Gma..
@An... I always forget that that daisy icon denotes a menu! But the standard settings offered ..
The GMail account isn't set up through a company is it? https://support.google.com/mail/thread/43868..
My regular Gmail account - the backup one that I don't normally use - was set up by me. The one that..
Diana, I am not knowledgable enough to advise you but on this site there are some who I am sure can ..
Me, too - as it turns out. But reliability is one thing and making them do what I need, complete wit..
@Di... , if you can log in to that old email account, then Google should be able to as well. It wil..
@Di... The owner of a GMail account) has to "Push" (Forward) messages to wherever they want them to..
I would dispute some of that, Mike.Google do not allow you to auto-forward email to another account ..
Virgin Email used to be based on gmail, or rather, an old version of gmail. At some point, they fell..
Just to note also, when Gmail pulls in email from an external server, its spam filters are active. I..
@Pe... Thank you - let me respond to your points in order I haven't implemented the auto-forward fu..
Definitely POP, Mike. I use it to pull in my late dad's email from the BT server associated with our..
OK...all mine are set to IMAP so I can read, write and delete email on any of 4 devices (2 Windows, ..