The default space available on the Lums Webmail email server is a measly 50megs for students although they are upgrading this to 100mb soon. This can be and is very restrictive given the high volume of emails that one receives on a daily basis at Lums due to the use of group accounts for mass emailing. Having attachments aggravates this even further. One need to delete emails on a regular basis to keep your account from overflowing, emails that one would have liked to kept for future reference.
Desktop Email Clients
One solution is to setup an desktop email application, like Outlook or even better Thunderbird, to download your emails off the server to your computer. This is fairly straight forward and you just need the setting for the webmail pop server. The cons to this approach are, what if you don't have a PC of your own at Lums or you are a hostalite and can't take your hostile resident desktop PC home with you. In that case you don't have access to your old emails when you are away from your desktop PC. One solution to this dilemma is to have a Laptop with an email client, but even with a Laptop I feel that I need access to my emails from my home PC and sometimes the Lab PC for printing or scanning, so in a nutshell I like the accessibility of having my emails available online so I can access them from anywhere and I also don't want to delete many of the email for future reference.
The best of both worlds
So, we want both storage space and web accessibility. The answer is to gmail; gmail has an feature that allows you to access and retrieve email from other pop email servers (like the lums email server) and save them to your gmail account under a label. If you set this up, gmail automatically retrieves emails from your webmail account and saves them to gmail separate from your regular emails. It will also allow you to send email using your lums email address. Gmail sorta replaces your desktop email client (ie Outlook) with a web alternative. Plus you don't have to ever worry about space, attachments or deleting emails as Gmail is now offering about 4Gb plus of space.
If anyone want to know how to set this up for your account, please post your comments in replay to this post and I will post a how-to of the process.
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can u please update on how to import mail into gmail.gmail tells me the pop server is not correct.
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