A. It’s a really powerful email solution!
The Gmail Thunderbird partnership gives the best of both worlds: the best of webmail and the best of an email client. See the video on Thunderbird Sync
If you use webmail such as Aol or Hotmail, you will know the hassles: using photos is painful, logging in and out of multiple accounts is a waste of time and you can’t even read your old emails unless you have a connection. This can leave you stuck without important information.
Of course webmail is great as you can access it from anywhere. There is no need to drag a laptop or netbook everywhere, all your email is available even from an internet cafe.
And using an email client such as Apple Mail gives you a different set of benefits and hassles. As with any email client, it’s tricky to use anything other than one main computer because all your email is downloaded to that main computer.
The system of webmail access that people currently use is painful because you only get your new emails and when you’re back at your main computer you need to re-read and re-sort your emails. However the benefits are that using attachments is really quick and easy, you don’t have to keep logging in and out and of course you can work on your email without being connected to the internet.
There are so many posts and videos about switching from Gmail to Thunderbird or (migrating|changing|switching|moving|swapping} from Thunderbird to Gmail but we’ve found the secret to using both so you get all the benefits of webmail and all the benefits of an email client.
By sync’ing Gmail and Thunderbird your email life will be really easy:
If you have multiple computers, all your email will be perfectly synchronized across them all
You still manage your email via Thunderbird on your own computers giving you access without logging in, easy attachment handling and the ability to view and manage your email offline
On any other computer you can manage all your email via Gmail.
Why Gmail and Thunderbird?
I recommend this combination as it’s the easiest to set up plus you get automatic address book synchronization as well. For more detail on this solution see Thunderbird Sync
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