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Hey - did you know if you click on the title of a thread it will take you to the first unread post since you last visited that thread?
but were afraid to ask: 
STOP!! Never post your email address in open forums. Bots can "harvest" your email! If you must share your email use a Private Message or use the 
smilie in place of the real @
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or their latest update was written by moonlighting Microsoft folks.
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Just to expend on that a bit - There is a difference between an email "service" and and email "client." All email services are cloud-based in the sense that the email resides on a server somewhere and can be accessed either via web-based client (web site) or a local (resident) mail client. Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo, Apple, even my mail on :atBritishcarforum are mail services where mail resides on a mail server somewhere. Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple's Mail App, are mail clients resident on your local computer whose purpose it to connect to a mail service (gmail, yahoo, whatever) and "download" the mail to your local computer.
The distinction is in what kind of protocol is used to access the mail server. There are two common options: POP (Post Office Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). If an Email account is set up as POP, then, when the mail client connects to the server, the mail is downloaded completely (full content of all emails) to the local computer and then deleted from the server (default behavior). So if you were to check mail on a POP account on Computer #1, then later check the same account on computer #2 (assuming no new mail has been received), there wouldn't be any mail because it was all downloaded onto computer #1 already.
The other common protocol is IMAP, which works a little differently. With an IMAP account, when you connect to the mail server (say Gmail), what is downloaded is a list of the emails on the server, with minimal info (subject:, to:, from:, and maybe a small summary). The entire email is not downloaded unless and until you specifically select an email to read. Either way, the email is not deleted from the server like it is with POP. Instead, all the emails remain on the server until you direct the email to be deleted by deleting it from your client. This protocol allows all your computers used to access the mail account to be in sync WRT what emails are seen in the mail clients. Most email accounts can be accessed either by a local mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) or by visiting a web-based mail page (mail.google or yahoo.com).
The distinction is in what kind of protocol is used to access the mail server. There are two common options: POP (Post Office Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). If an Email account is set up as POP, then, when the mail client connects to the server, the mail is downloaded completely (full content of all emails) to the local computer and then deleted from the server (default behavior). So if you were to check mail on a POP account on Computer #1, then later check the same account on computer #2 (assuming no new mail has been received), there wouldn't be any mail because it was all downloaded onto computer #1 already.
The other common protocol is IMAP, which works a little differently. With an IMAP account, when you connect to the mail server (say Gmail), what is downloaded is a list of the emails on the server, with minimal info (subject:, to:, from:, and maybe a small summary). The entire email is not downloaded unless and until you specifically select an email to read. Either way, the email is not deleted from the server like it is with POP. Instead, all the emails remain on the server until you direct the email to be deleted by deleting it from your client. This protocol allows all your computers used to access the mail account to be in sync WRT what emails are seen in the mail clients. Most email accounts can be accessed either by a local mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) or by visiting a web-based mail page (mail.google or yahoo.com).
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I like their answer, Eastern US. Doesn't help with New Mexico!
Problems in Eastern US can (and often does) affect folks in the west.
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IMAP is far and away the most common set up these days. I have several different accounts with different services (to include gmail and yahoo) and all are set up as IMAP.