How can I archive email in my free email account?

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What's wrong with moving email to "My Documents" and filing in appropiate folders. This has worked perfectly for me.

"My Documents" is on your computer ... how did you download your mail?

file>save as>my documents

Be careful when using pop access with Gmail. This system does not follow the standards that other pop services do, in that it does not permit a "delete" of messages that are downloaded to your client. Gmail is set up to archive everything, and only manual intervention will delete it. So your email is there, under archived messages, forever. Which is just what they advertise!

Rather than trust Gmail or any other free email provider, I like to set up pop services and manage the messages on my home client. Why let my messages sit on another server where they can be searched without my control? With pop, I can control the messages and can use the email client I like.

The great advantage of free email accounts that Leo missed is that of changing addresses. When I have an account that is suddenly in the spammers address book, I can stop using it and use another. Thus I give out such an address to web sites, and my more permanent addresses, perhaps from a paid provider, is given to my friends and business contacts. Although I have found that some friends tend to get my address published with spammers more than most web sites do!

I've successfully used YPOPs to download Yahoo email to Outlook Express and Thunderbird:

http://www.ypopsemail.com

This could be a means to archive your emails from Yahoo email.

I know that there are similar programs for Hotmail. I guess that you must have a certain amount of trust with these programs that your login info isn't being misdirected for some nefarious purpose.

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I just want to clarify a comment you made about gmail archiving messsages forever unless there is "manual intervention." Please excuse my ignorance, but when I delete something in my gmail account, is it really deleted? Or does it just disappear from my view and my access, remaining forever archived somewhere at gmail?
If the latter, is there a way to request that gmail clear your old files or are we stuck with that. Thanks for any info you can provide.

I also am curious about what happens when people use software programs to have one email account auto-forwarded to another and then reply from the account where they are receiving things. I understand that capabilities and features depend on which software program you are using and the type of email accounts you have, but is there any situation in which replies would go automatically back through the original account, or should I assume that any such set-up would show my main account as the sender if I reply to something auto-forwarded from a hotmail or gmail account. Thanks for the info.

The claim is that when you delete something in GMail it's really deleted. I tend to believe them, but ... I guess we never really know :-).

Typically when you send mail it is idenfied as coming from the account you use to send it, regardless of any forwarding. You can set up to have the resturn address be from a different email address (that's this article: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_send_mail_from_my_mail_forwarded_address.html)
but it will still, in the headers, identify the actual account that was used to physically send the mail.

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