[X4U] MAIL APP Question

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 7:37 AM, John Drake wrote:

>
> I've been using Yahoo mail as a filter for a good 10 yrs.(?) but I  
> have also been using Mail since it's first iteration and have not  
> had many problems. I open both my Yahoo mail and .Mac mail in the  
> Yahoo web site, delete all the junk then open Mail and it downloads  
> what's left. I use Mail to respond, forward , etc., it's a  
> convoluted process I know but it seems that for me the Yahoo  
> filters are more robust, that may have changed over the years and  
> Mail may now be as good but for me it doesn't seem worth the  
> trouble. :-).
>
> I have Comcast cable/internet but have never used their mail  
> system, for that matter I only used their predecessor's mail system  
> for a very short time (less than 3 mo.) so I'm not familiar with  
> any of the problems you mention specific to Comcast. I will say  
> that my father-in-law used their system on his Mac (Mini running  
> Tiger 10.4.x into Leopard 10.5.6) and did not seem to be having any  
> problems, he handled the account set up and had he had any issues  
> he would have come to me first since I'm the one that persuaded him  
> to make the switch to Mac.
>

John:

You must be lucky as there isn't a day I haven't gotten spam at  
YAHOO. I never use my yahoo account(I do have spam filters as well on  
yahoo) except when someone insists on having an email address. Weekly  
I delete the spam and there is always zero good items left.


Ed