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Gregg Bell · 11-05-2017, 09:50 PM

Thanks Dennis. That was quite an endorsement for Gmail. So the Godaddy guy, who said gmail could be easily hacked, was wrong? I have Gmail for my personal email and yeah, it's great. I have five or six email accounts (mostly to see what the emails I send look like on other email accounts) and feel no need for a client to bring them together in one place. My only concern was if the client (in this case, let's say Thunderbird) was more secure than the Microsoft Outlook 365 Essentials that I now have?

And btw the Godaddy rep said the Essentials (since it's paid) has better security than Gmail.

Again, the rep kept stressing that the continual putting in of the password was what made regular webmail accounts so much more vulnerable than email clients.

So do you think I'm okay with the Essentials (it would seem so) or would I be safer with Thunderbird?

11-05-2017, 09:50 PM	#757
Gregg Bell Gregg Bell Posts: 2,266 Karma: 3917598 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Itasca, Illinois Device: Kindle Touch 7, Sony PRS300, Fire HD8 Tablet	Thanks Dennis. That was quite an endorsement for Gmail. So the Godaddy guy, who said gmail could be easily hacked, was wrong? I have Gmail for my personal email and yeah, it's great. I have five or six email accounts (mostly to see what the emails I send look like on other email accounts) and feel no need for a client to bring them together in one place. My only concern was if the client (in this case, let's say Thunderbird) was more secure than the Microsoft Outlook 365 Essentials that I now have? And btw the Godaddy rep said the Essentials (since it's paid) has better security than Gmail. Again, the rep kept stressing that the continual putting in of the password was what made regular webmail accounts so much more vulnerable than email clients. So do you think I'm okay with the Essentials (it would seem so) or would I be safer with Thunderbird?