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gMail Question
Hi,
I'm a complete noob using any version of windows, and I'm 67 years old. I just got Win10 with my Intel NUC PC. It was pre-installed, which probably doesn't help with my understanding, although it might not be the reason for my non-understanding. My path in OS's to this point has been Dos, OS/2, Linux openSUSE. I consider myself relatively competent with computers generally, but not very competent with stuff like Internet connectivity, although I generally have been able to make them work.
The first and only thing I've done to date is connect everything together and see that it's all working.
The next thing I did was download and install Chrome and make it my default browser. I then went straight to gmail.com and setup all my gMail accounts. Now here is where I get my first problem. I haven't touched the Mail part of Win10 at all.I have only maybe in the last year switched to using IMAP with my gMail accounts. I can see the advantages of not downloading any of this gMail stuff and doing it all online at gMail. So probably my first question.
1) Is downloading gMail eMail now obsolete, or is there any good reason to continue to download it? And to what? I have been familiar with downloading everything and replying, rather than logging in and out of numerous gMail accounts. Which sounds laborious.
So I thought I should re-create all these gMail accounts (about 15 of them) in WIN10. So I went to Mail>Add Account>Google> and it gave me the Google Login, but it insists I use Windows to manage my eMail.
2) So my second question. Is that correct? That I give up gMails management of my accounts for Windows to manage them?
3) I also have about 5 other email accounts related to domains I'm hosting. I presume these would be setup as Other Account, POP, IMAP.
4) And I suppose finally, are there any solutions which would operate in a way which would allow me to see all my email in my accounts without having to download everything. I don't really think I need a backup of the gMail accounts. To date. Like now, when upgrading to Win10. It's always been the other way around. I've always used Thunderbird as my email client, until now. I'm not championing it, if there is something better.
stu