Whatever works best for you, I guess. I just personally prefer using a method which isn't dependent on my own system at all, making everything as "self-sustaining" online as possible, so as to minimize my chances of losing accounts even if, say, for some reason I was unable to get online at all for six months or something (or if I was to lose access by my own computer for awhile anyway). Of course, in that case, losing a few accounts might not be important if I'm unable to access them anyway, but theoretically speaking anyway.
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Originally Posted by nooby
"It just worked" from scratch. That's what I like in a program. It already knew how to do such things.
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While that can be helpful if they have the
right information, it isn't always helpful when a system, such as Gmail,
guesses the server name, for example, which led to me having to post for help at the Bluehome forums once when my settings to poll my account there by POP3 failed to work, forgetting that I hadn't entered the correct POP3 server name myself but that Gmail had merely "guessed" the correct server name for me, guessing incorrectly in this case, as I've found that it often does. The moral of the story, IMO, is that computers aren't very good guessers and therefore
shouldn't be guessing when they don't "know".
