[X-Newbies] Re: the sbc yahoo blues at @sbcglobal.net...

[J]

I sent an explanation with photos. Perhaps it did not clear the  
moderator.
I can send directly I guess?

On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 6:09 AM, Richard ramsowr wrote:
>
>
>> sorry, I  wasn't clearer on the subject - anyway my
>> DSL provider is SBC and I find myself using their mail
>> program which they call "SBC Yahoo Mail"- one of those
>> thing where - when you sign up for their DSL service -
>> one just kind of fall in to it.
>>
>> anyway wanted to tranfer (move) off of sbc and onto
>> one of Apple's offerings  I currently have both
>> Apple's .Mac and of course OS X's Mail - not even sure
>> what the differents is between the two.
>>
>> I guess I just tired of have some large corporation
>> cramming somthing up my you know what. Maybe I'm nuts
>> but I have always used an apple albeit some what new
>> to OS X and I'm just tired of not having the full
>> experence. Hell if I could find a way to do way with
>> the sbc thing completely I would but sbc is sbc and I'm
>> down here in Houston and not back in San Francisco
>> anymore - what can I say
>>
>
> It appears that part of your issue is that you don't understand the  
> difference between a mail server or service such as Apple's .Mac or  
> SBC/Yahoo and a mail client such as Apple's "Mail" application. So  
> let's see if we can clear that up.
>
> Mail being sent to you ends up at a mail server such as  
> Apple's .Mac or your ISP's - SBC/Yahoo in your case. To read your  
> mail you start a client, an application local to your computer such  
> as Apple's "Mail" or Eudora, it connects to the servers you've told  
> it about, and your mail is downloaded to your machine and may or  
> may not be left on the server - depending on the features of the  
> server and your client's settings.
>
> Sending mail works in the opposite direction. You compose the  
> message in your client, which then connects to your service  
> provider's server, and that server then sends your message to the  
> appropriate place.
>
> SBC/Yahoo doesn't have a mail "program" that I know of. They  
> provide a mail service/server that you can access either via a web  
> page or the email client of your choice. Are you currently  
> accessing your SBC email via a web page and not aware that you can  
> get to it from whatever client you might want to use?
>
> For me or Charles or someone else to help you we need to know how  
> you're currently accessing your SBC email. Once we know that we can  
> advise you as to the pros/cons of storing mail in your local client  
> or a server, how to move mail from one server to another (which may  
> or may not be easy depending on the destination), and how to have  
> new mail coming into one server be automatically forwarded to  
> another either directly by the receiving server or possibly by your  
> mail client.
>
> As I asked above, I suspect that you're currently accessing your  
> SBC mail via their web page and that if you switch to using a mail  
> client, such as Apple's "Mail", your complaints about "not having  
> the full experience" will go away since their mail service is  
> basically like any other mail service.
>
> If none of this is making any sense feel free to contact me  
> directly and we can arrange to talk via telephone or something like  
> Skype or iChat.
>
> Phil
>
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