GMail POP?
 

Now that we're moving, we're going to have to ditch our Cox email addresses. Now that free web mail like gmail finally has ample storage, I'm planning on switching exclusively to my gmail address. But I've got lots of places to change the address and a lot of people to inform, so in transition, I'd like somewhere that I can check both gmail and my cox address.

Much to my surprise, gmail doesn't seem to have the ability to check external pop accounts (if it does, could someone point me to it?). It does however, have the opposite capability, you can check gmail from external pop readers.

So I'm trying to find one that'll work and that's web-based so I can check both my Cox and gmail accounts from anywhere all at once. Problem being, gmail uses SSL, and that's proving problematic. The Cox webmail client claims SSL support, but it's failing to work. Yahoo doesn't seem to support SSL POP. I tried mail2web.com, but that doesn't seem to have the option to leave the messages on the pop server rather than delete them.

Anyone know of a good, free, web mail with external SSL POP checking and decent storage space?

Have you tried to set up both accounts in Outlook?

GMail can be run through Outlook as can Cox.

ETA: I just saw that your Cox Pop is not working properly. Odd.

I don't want to use outlook because I want it to be web based.

Can you just set up your Cox account to redirect everything to your Gmail account?

That's another possibility...I had a reason I didn't want to earlier this afternoon, but now I can't remember it.

If it is because your replies would come from the new address you can set Gmail up to use whatever "From" address you want went replying (and can select on the fly as you do so).

I don't remember my full "reasoning", but it partly had to do with the lack of folders...but now I've figured out the mysterious secrets of labels, so my reasons are definitely thinning.

Yeah, I was originally thrown off by the lack of folders. But once I got the idea behind labels, and particularly the fact that you can apply more than one label (how many times I wished to put an email in two different folders), I am fully converted.

What was bugging me was that labled items remained in your inbox...until I learned that archiving them doesn't strip the labels. Huzzah.

Funny, I didn't even know Archive existed. I just have thousands of emails in my Inbox (but then they don't bother me so even knowing about it I probably won't use it).

Another great advantage of Gmail (and perhaps the other web mail clients have caught up) is the reasonably fast WAP access over my cell phone Web browser. Strips everything down to the bare minimum and works well.

Yes, this has become my prefered email service for my phone - the POP integration also works better than the others when I want compose "offline"

GD, BTD and Alex said cox.

I'll be sad when we move because we won't be seeing the Cox local commercials anymore.

"Get more, with Cox!"

"I really enjoy Cox."

"Cox gives me everything I need, all in one package."

lol! :D

Sounds like my kind of company.
;)

Cox Cable was the local cable monopoly for most of my youth (I forgot who replaced them). If you think Cox is fun to say as an adult, imagine how much fun it was for 2nd graders.

Okay, Alex, what about this one, being a fellow FireFox user. Middle click doesn't work for opening messages in a new tab. Right click doesn't work. So what's your viewing strategy?

I wouldn't want to open emails in a new window so I didn't know that. My middle button does nothing but lock the scroll wheel so that I can scroll by moving my mouse rather than spinning the scroll wheel.

Shift-clicking on a message link will open it in a new window (though you'll have to tell the Firefox pop-up blocker to allow it). I don't know if there is any way to do it with just the mouse.