Quick Question - just a curious question really...

I got a new iMac last month and had previously owned an iMac G5 and had been using the Mail feature - having my comcast e-mail transfered to it. When I opened up mail on my new computer - all I did was type in my e-mail address and password, and everything set up automatically - I remember having to do a little more work than that in the past - not much, but changing a few settings so that I can bring up my e-mail with this application.
I'm curious as to how all of my contacts are still in the previous recipients - people I e-mailed a year ago - are still in there - It was if I never changed computers - I thought this would be computer specific and that when I deleted my hard drive on the other computer that these would all be gone and i'd have to start from scratch - I'm happy I didn't - but I guess this is the way it was supposed to happen?
so, not really a question - but I guess this is the way it works? I didn't import my old mail or anything...

No, it is not a .mac account.
Thanks for the info...I just found it strange how I could start on a new computer as if I never switched - I thought that stuff was stored on the hard drive - sort of. So, to me, that meant that I would lose all of that information once I started fresh on a new system. How does the mail application save this information? just by my logging in? is this why set-up was so easy? My address book does not have even half of those addresses in it - I do no that they are integrated though. I backed up my address book and was able to easily restore it with my new computer...so those addresses I expected to see - just not ones that I used while using the other computer only.
If that makes any sense - it's hard to explain.
Thanks again.
Message was edited by: Michael Clancy

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