Thunderbird or other ? for eMail

I personally would switch to gmail and forgo all of those programs. I used thunderbird for quite a while, but compared to gmail on the normal web it is pretty inconvenient.

Switching emails was somewhat of a pain, but I am glad i did it. I kept running into problems where thunderbird would forget what it had downloaded and dl everything again and it just got far too painful.

The 5 email thing was what i had... junking them all or forwarding them to gmail really was worth it though it wasn't exactly simple.

The problem with gmail is, when you look at your in box you can only open one at a time.

enterkey said: Why not use Gmail with IMAP, so you can access same emails using either browser or Thunderbird?

Though not familiar with imap, I see where I can use as POP with thunderbird.
Is imap the same as POP ?

So I take it if I set up gmail for pop, it will integrate on the same window as my 5 Charter pop accounts.
Is that correct.

With POP, every time you download emails to a client, they are deleted off server. With IMAP, emails are kept on server.

This works nicely when you want to check your emails from multiple machines.

In my case, I use Evolution on my desktop and Thunderbird on my netbook to check Gmail account at home. But when I am at work, I use the web client to check the same Gmail account. I can do that because everything gets synchronized.