A&L Enterprises Tech Line

When I purchased my Palm Pre I knew it was time to move to Gmail – as the e-mail on this phone works well with Gmail.  I’d been thinking about it for some time – as Outlook was becoming somewhat annoying and the appeal of access to e-mail anywhere was compelling.  So I decided to make the move for the following reasons:

1. I was tired of POP3 access on my old Phone – as I would find myself deleting e-mails off both the phone and then later on Outlook.
2. Gmail can pull in my various POP3 accounts (I have an ISP account, Yahoo and my own website’s e-mail) into one view.
3. My Palm Pre can then connect to Gmail to show all my e-mail – but NOT download it – only view it.
4. With IMAP access I can upload my set of old e-mails to Gmail.
5. I felt comfortable with Gmail – as it was a secure connection and I can enable offline ability.
6. The world is moving to the cloud – so I might as well go with it.
7. Finally Outlook was getting annoying – as I was up to 3 different PST files and it was still slow.  That and trying to access the same Outlook files from 2 different computers was problematic (as Outlook would try to re-create a default file every time it couldn’t access a network connection). View full article »