[Eug-lug] looking for free IMAP mail

[Garl Grigsby]

> I've considered gmail but so far rejected it.  POP does not meet my
> needs since it important to me to be able to access my e-mail from
> multiple locations.  Gmail web access is a possibility but for me it has
> some drawbacks that imap does not have:
>
> 1. It is incompatible with my current IMAP e-mail.  I would have to
> handle currently archived e-mail with a different interface than the new
> er gmail e-mail.  This problem gets worse if I later decide I want to
> switch back.
>   
There are tools out there to allow you to upload old mail to GMail. Not 
sure this resolves the issue for you or not, but it is an option.
> 2. As far as I know you can not configure messages sent from gmail to
> appear to have been sent from a different address.  With IMAP, I can
> forward e-mail with an address for a domain that I have registered to my
>  IMAP account and then configure my e-mail client (thunderbird) to send
> with the "from" address being the same address that the e-mail was sent
> to.  I can do the forwarding to a gmail account but as far as I know the
> "from" address has to be the gmail address.  I do know you can set a
> "reply to" field but I would rather the gmail address did not appear at all.
>   
You can have GMail get mail from other accounts. When you do this you 
can have it respond from the same address the mail was sent to. This is 
in the settings form.
> 3.  In principle it bothers me to have google reading my e-mail and
> delivering advertisements based on my e-mail content.
>   
When you really get down to it anybody can read your email while it is 
transit...
> So, for now, I am still looking for a good IMAP solution but if I don't
> find that I might try gmail.
>   
Other than that, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not aware of a 
'free' IMAP client. I know some pay providers will supply IMAP, but that 
is it.

Garl