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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
What really bothered me is that one poor user lost all but 48 emails. MobileMe took every email off her Mac and only 48 were up on Apple's servers. Every email communication she's every sent or received (and saved) gone except those 48. Wow!
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I would be speechless with rage.
That sort of experience is one reason I like GMail. While I
can get it delivered as POP mail, I don't. I prefer the web interface. And the mail all sits on Google's servers, and Google is fanatic about not losing data, so multiple redundant copies exist. I already learned the hard way that Outlook behaves
very strangely if the mailbox.pst file hits 2GB (with symptoms including new mail not getting delivered and multiple copies of old mail mysteriously appearing. Fixing that problem is possible but laborious.)
I currently have 2.2GB used of 6.9GB allocated in the GMail account, and no problems.
I've seen people express privacy concerns over web based email, but I don't share them. While Google theoretically
could snoop in my mail, they jhave no reason to do so, and I don't especially care if they do. As a general rule, I don't consider email secure, and if it's
so private I'd be embarrassed if anyone else saw it, I don't say it in email.
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Dennis