I have been using Yahoo small business email for years, but it is getting so glitchy, and the latest upgrades make searching for old emails practically impossible.
Does anyone know if I can continue with Yahoo but do my email through something like outlook and then do searches that way? Probably a completely stupid question...
I need a good, stable business email that stores my emails online, and one that allow word or address searches of the old emails.
Suggestions?
Outlook Express (older) & Windows Live Mail (newer) will do exactly what you are asking for.
I migrated my personal hotmail account over to a Gmail account. Gmail created and transferred all hotmail email already separated into folders Into Gmail Folders of the same name and structure. I still have the hotmail account open but all new emails sent to it, stream to gmail (based upon settings).. Gmail takes a little getting used to but I love it now. I use many filters to route my emails in predetermined folder structures and the search is very quick. You can search globally, or folder, by folder. It will even include the deleted folder in the global search and tell you if it found deleted messages matching your search query.
Just my 0.02
PS... My company migrated from Outlook over to Gmail about a year ago as well but we pay for the Google Apps version.
What Jered said.
Better yet, sign up for the free version (up to 10 users) of Google Apps. It will take some techie work to get it working with your domain, but worth the trouble. I've done it for myself and most of my website clients, too (I include it free with website design services). I swear by it.
> Outlook Express (older) & Windows Live Mail (newer) will do exactly what you are asking for.
Much as I like and respect my friend Dave Ingram, I can not disagree more. Bill Gates and his crowd have a history of saying one thing and doing something completely different with client data.
A few years ago I created a Hotmail account with a really odd address. This was the sort of address that no machine will generate at random like some of the spammers do.
I told nobody about the account. Never sent a single email from the account. I just let it sit. Now keep in mind that the Microsoft privacy policy at that time is they would not share your information with anyone.
A month after I created the account I had close to 60 emails from various companies. The only way they could have gotten the account information was to get the information from Microsoft.
Trust any type of email related to Microsoft at your own risk.
Larry P
Gee Larry, I just answered the guys question based on personal experience. Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail are only email management programs. I have mine set up to manage 3 different emails at one time. Every 20 minutes my Windows Live Mail polls the 3 email accounts, brings them all in for viewing or deletion or whatever, and will also remove them from the server if I want.
These two programs have nothing to do with the email accounts themselves.
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> Trust any type of email related to Microsoft at your own risk.
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> Larry P
Larry~ That is why I have a hotmail account that I use as my spam account. Since that is where they seem to be getting it. I use it for any place that wants my email address. I get over 100 emails a day and I select all and delete. Had this account for 20 years. THANKS MS for the free spam account.
No more Outlook for us changed over to the paid Google Apps ($50/yr per email account) and am very happy with it. No need to backup, no forwarding emails from your laptop to desktop, no archiving, no (very little) spam, just all your emails all the time.
With gmail on Iphone, does your iphone give audible tone when you get an email?
FWIW, within the first week after I opened a gmail account, I began to get spam from wristwatch knock-off sites. I still get them to this day, one or two a day.
Never had any activity or interaction, hadn't even used the e-mail all that much the first week.
Frank
My wife's iPhone makes a noise when she gets an email.
A little different problem......how do I send an email to a Group that I have set up in my address book? It is easy on the computer, but can't get it done on the iPad?
Keith
Frank
I don't have an iphone but I do have an ipad. You can select gmail to be "pushed" to your ipad but I don't know if it beeps. This link is to instructions on how to set up a mailing group in gmail which would work from an ipad
http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/Set_up_an_Address_Book_Group_for_List_Mailing_in_Gmail.htm
Frank
Thanks, all. I am gonna try it. Regretfully, Yahoo Small Business email seems to be totally collapsing and has been doing so for a year.
Frank
My email client is mozilla. I have it track a gmail account and another account that I use for business.
It's really easy, and if all of your emails are still saved on the "cloud server" then mozilla will fetch them and let you check and search them.
Thunderbird is free.
FWIW, I also have my iphone do the same thing.
If you choose to go gmail, it's free and it's everywhere if you use igoogle as like a homepage. I see them all. I can't imagine paying for email applications when it's free. I do however pay for my "other account" that is tagged to my domain name for my web-site.
If I could get away with that being free, I would. Godaddy was nice enough to host it since I bought the domain name through them and I built the site.
What can I say, I'm really frickin cheap! 🙂
