Re: Again Lost Mail

[tom <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I thank Michael K for his generous offer.  I see looking at the web that I can 
get a commercial IMAP account for $20 - $50 a year.  This is surely in my 
price range.  The advertised features seem to solve all my problems and I get 
a commercial service.  I also get someone to complain to when there is a 
problem where I would be reluctant to badger Michael.  

The commercial account says that I can keep my present e-mail address.  How do 
they do that?  Do they just read my e-mail from my POP account and then store 
it?

$50 gets me 2 GB which seems enough even for a lot of images and they 
advertise that I can burn CD backups from the site.  Any known problems with 
such services?

Advice please.  While I really appreciate Michael's offer, my bias is to go 
with a commercial service.

Tom Droege  

On Thursday 16 September 2004 06:28 pm, Michael Koppelman wrote:
> I know it's been mentioned before, but if you use IMAP and store your
> messages and folders on the server, you can log in with any mail client
> from any system anywhere and all your mail is there magically. I will
> give you such an account on my mail server for free if you want.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:19 AM, tom wrote:
> > I want to learn to back up the mail system.