All in one email client

How many email accounts do you have?
Two, three, four maybe more and from different popular free internet email providers.

How do you access each of them?
Surf the different websites then login, one account after another...

I have an easier way of doing it. It just takes a little bit of reading the FAQ and help files on setting and configuring it up.

In the scale of difficulty in doing it, I say three with five as the hardest.

So here it goes =====

Have you read about "Thunderbird"?
This is an email client software and the good news is it is FREE. Thanks to the guys in Mozilla for their hardwork in developing this. All you got to do is download the software and install it. Then register your POP accounts and voila! You can read your email in one client.

Now, I said that this is all in one. What I meant by that is that you can read email and news, not to mention RSS as well. Now, to get email from non POP email providers like Yahoo and Hotmail and other web based emails, you need to load this Webmail add-on. Also download the specific provider add-on.

With the case of Gmail and AOL related service, you dont need the add-on. Thunderbird can fetch your emails right from its configuration settings. Same as true with Netscape email.

You need to load the extension for Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to fetch your email.

Heres the steps I did:
1. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. Download the Webmail add-on.
3. Download your specific email provider add-on.
4. open thunderbird and load the Webmail add-on by selecting tools > add-ons
5. Click install, select the saved webmail file.
6. Restart thunderbird
7. Load your email provider extension by selecting tools > add-ons > install
8. Restart thunderbird, repeat procedure for each different email provider listed.
9 Configure you email account, refer to your email account and server settings.
10 Make sure the webmail service add-on is running and you account is properly defined.

Some limitations are there like if your email service provider is not (yet)supported, for corporate emails as an example. I do not have corporate email account so I cant comment on that aspect.

I compared Thunderbird with Outlook in terms of memory usage. Thunderbird uses smaller memory resource, 65 MB as compared to the latters > 100MB. Thats a few chunks spare for use of other programs/services.

Thats it! You can read all (if not, most) of your emails from the free popular internet email providers around.

PS I may have missed some more specific item, all you need to do is read the help file or the FAQs.

Have fun and safe computing!