I made the decision to switch to a gmail primary address about the time I got a windows 10 laptop and my first android smartphone (big learning curve, but forced me into the 21st century). I was fed up of having to get a new email address every time I switched internet providers. Gmail works really well for me. On my laptop I just access gmail from the chrome browser. It remembers my logins and goes straight there. I find gmail is incredibly easy to access, allows me to easily switch between more than one gmail address or identity (work, home, genealogy) and the format of gmail (on my laptop anyway) allows very easy separation of the main inbox from social media generated emails, groups and mailing lists, and promotional emails - which all helps me manage emails a lot better. My android phone has an app for gmail as well and the work ipad I use makes setting up gmail super easy. The only downside I have found is trying to figure out what is in my "address book" as there was no easy way I could find to transfer from my previous tiscali/talktalk address book. That could just be me though. I'm a terror at not reading instructions until I run into problems. Corinne Curtis #5579 On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Celia Dodd via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am having to move from a Windows Vista laptop to a Windows 10 laptop several months earlier than I was planning and have successfully transferred all my data. > I am unsure what to do about emails and I'm temporarily using webmail. It makes sense to change to a cloud-based system - I don't possess an iPhone or tablet but > that could change. I have thousands of old emails that I wish to be able to access somehow and I have exported them to a folder on the new laptop. > > I am not impressed with the little I have seen of 'Mail' in Windows 10. I am wondering about using Thunderbird but would appreciate any advice. There must be > many members who have already negotiated this process and found a successful solution. > > Please reply off-list. > > Celia (Dodd) > [email protected] > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message