{"id":1224,"date":"2017-11-28T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2017-11-29T21:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:33:30","slug":"doing-email-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2017\/11\/28\/doing-email-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing email — options"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I ask some of my clients how they get to their email, a typical response is “AOL” or “hotmail” or “Google.” Or they might say “myname@hotmail.com” or “myname@aol.com.” Well, that’s not what I’m trying to understand.<\/p>\n

Knowing their preferred service company or email address is a start, but I’m more interested in whether they get to their messages on a desktop or notebook computer or on a smartphone or tablet (or all of those devices). And if on a desktop or notebook computer, whether they use a special purpose program<\/strong> (like Microsoft’s Outlook, Apple’s Mail, Mozilla’s Thunderbird) or a general purpose program<\/strong> — a Web Browser like Microsoft’s Edge, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, etc.<\/p>\n

There are pros and cons to each option. When a Web Browser<\/strong> is used to access your email on a service provider’s Web site, this method is called Webmail<\/strong>. One advantage to this is that you visit other sites (web pages) using your browser and so webmail is just visiting a special type of site. And you can do this anytime and anywhere you have a device with an Internet connection and a browser. No special programs need to be installed and configured. You do not even need to use your own computer.<\/p>\n

Webmail can be tedious, however, when you have many email addresses (and accounts with several email service providers) — going to separate sites to check each one.<\/p>\n

A special purpose email program, however, can typically manage multiple accounts and Inboxes<\/strong>, which makes checking those accounts more convenient. A special purpose program also may in general be easier to use (a friendlier graphical user interface). That’s why many pepople still use the AOL Desktop program.<\/p>\n

On smartphones you’ll generally want to use a special purpose app, like Apple’s Mail or Google’s Gmail app.<\/p>\n

Here’s a drawing intended to clarify these email options (link to pdf version below).<\/p>\n

\"Drawing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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email options-app_vs_webmail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I ask some of my clients how they get to their email, a typical response is “AOL” or “hotmail” or “Google.” Or they might say “myname@hotmail.com” or “myname@aol.com.” Well, that’s not what I’m trying to understand. Knowing their preferred service company or email address is a start, but I’m more interested in whether they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}