"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> peggy j wrote:
> > i have moved to gmail and it is not in the pull-down as a choice
> > formy default email system. how can i add it?
>
> Don't know - since you have told us nothing about what client you are using.
>
> If you are using Internet Browsers as your email client - you cannot assign
> a browser as a default email client - because it is not an email client - it
> is an Internet Browser. ;-)
>
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> Shenan Stanley
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>
>
>

> peggy j wrote:
> > i have moved to gmail and it is not in the pull-down as a choice
> > formy default email system. how can i add it?
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
> > Don't know - since you have told us nothing about what client you
> > are using.
> >
> > If you are using Internet Browsers as your email client - you
> > cannot assign a browser as a default email client - because it is
> > not an email client - it is an Internet Browser. ;-)
>
> peggy j wrote:
> > i am using IE7 in XP..i guess i am out of luck...thanx...pj
>
> Unless you start using an actual email client - you will not be able to
> choose a non-email client as your default email client.
>
> Outlook Express, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc...  all legitimate email clients
> and all can be used to IMAP or POP with GMail.  If you like getting your
> email via the web interface - I suggest IMAP on a client.

> GMail has instructions on how to do this with MANY clients.
>
> Getting started with IMAP
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725&topic=12891
>
> Enabling IMAP
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695&topic=12891
>
> Supported IMAP clients (and their setup instructions)
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75726&topic=12891
>
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> Shenan Stanley
>      MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> > I'm just curious as to why you suggest IMAP rather than POP, since
> > I've personally never used IMAP and know next to nothing about it.
>
> Simply because of the way GMail is utilized by most (via web) and how IMAP
> can directly reflect what one would see via the web and POP would have to be
> manually setup and maintained in order to do so.
>
> I have managed gmail using both POP and IMAP and if you do occassionally
> access GMAIL via the web (which I do and I would bet many others do as
> well) - to me the IMAP is a better representation of the GMail layout and
> makes it easy to manage folders and such so that everything looks the same
> when you access it either way.