Will I have to use Gmail as my web mail client?
Yes, you will need to switch to Gmail to manage your emails from the web. You could continue to use your other web mail client, but any emails you send from that client will not be synchronized with any of your other email clients. Whereas if you use Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Apple Mail and any of the many other email clients which support IMAP, your email will automatically be synchronized everywhere.
The good news is that if you currently use Hotmail, AOL or Yahoo Mail Plus you can continue to send and receive emails using your current email address. You just need to do it from Gmail or any of the other email clients listed here. So there is no need to tell everyone you have changed address.
And it is very easy to transfer all your contacts and email from most web mail providers to Gmail! This also includes the free Yahoo Mail.
Unfortunately the free Yahoo Mail does not allow you to access your Yahoo email from another email client via POP. This is required by Gmail to pick up email from the account on an ongoing basis. The best options are either to stop using this address or to upgrade to the paid version. You can upgrade here: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/enhancements/mailplus. We are looking into ways of including free Yahoo Mail in the Easy-Email solution, so please come back here for the latest news on this topic.
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