Thanks for the info. You certainly don't have to sell me on gmail, I have been using it for years and think its the best.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Webb wrote: >> >> What I meant was, do we have pop/imap and smtp access using our >> apache.org accounts. Can I set up thunderbird to send/receive mail? >> > > AFAIR, you can forward any mail you receive to mwebb at a.o to another mail > account by updating your .forward on your people.a.o/mwebb home directory. > Apache does not setup a mailbox for your account. > > You have some instruction here : > http://www.apache.org/dev/user-email.html > > FYI, I usually redirect everything to gmail, just because they have a bloody > good anti-spam system (and I must say I do that for all my incoming mails : > I forward all of them to gmail, and thunderbird is reading them from gmail. > Two big advantages : > - less spam > - and I have a web access to my mail. > However, on big cons : I depend on google who now has a total access to my > private data...) > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
