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Keep the gMail, use that email address, give it out freely to all from whom you'd like to receive email. You can even set up filters for spammers.
In that gMail use a POP forwarding to forward all those emails to your ISP email account where you'll receive, read and respond to your friends. You'll also store your email on your personal PC email client, such as Thunderbird. In your email client you will setup the FROM with your name or other identification so your friends will know it's you. You will use your ISP SMTP server to send emails, no spam.
Should you change ISP's you'll only need to change the forwarding address in gMail to the new ISP email address. And of course the SMTP server in your email client. And, this would be the only time you'd need to login to gmail, to change the forwarding address and maybe to revise filters.
I've acquired dozens of email addresses over the years and have all of them forwarded to a POBOX email address, which I pay for. I download all my email from that address. Some of the old accounts I wouldn't even know where or how to log into them but I continue to receive those emails.
It occurs to me to add... at work you can set up your work email to forward a copy to gmail or your ISP email. Then, if you leave that job you'll still get emails from those clients looking for you to do something for them. At least until IT cancels your work email...
There is only one glitch with that solution. When I am on the road or away from the service from my ISP with my laptop then I would have a problem sending, right?
But for my desktop computer at work that would work great.
There is only one glitch with that solution. When I am on the road or away from the service from my ISP with my laptop then I would have a problem sending, right?
But for my desktop computer at work that would work great.
Mostly no. My scenario involved only one access device, either your desktop or your laptop. Typically when one uses an email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, whatever) they download their email to that computer. Some leave a copy on the server, but you could do that from the gmail account. The goal here being to leave no trace behind, should you make that switch of ISP. Leaving a copy on gmail could be your document history. But that was really the intent of downloading email to the desktop. I was thinking home computer, but...
As far as sending email while traveling, you shouldn't have a problem as long as you have that broadband connection... a friend's connection, a hotel wireless, etc. Your email client is talking to the SMTP server not to your broadband connection at home/work/elsewhere. Your email client is using your ISP's SMTP (outgoing mail) server. You can do that from any location on the planet... sometimes China excluded - see google.
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It occurs to me to add... at work you can set up your work email to forward a copy to gmail or your ISP email. Then, if you leave that job you'll still get emails from those clients looking for you to do something for them. At least until IT cancels your work email...
I'd recommend you read your employer's IT Security / HR policy before doing this. Or you may find your self at a new job sooner than you'd like/expect.....
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