Why Mail?

no, this isn't a flame, or a troll, or anything like that. it is, however, an honest question. i'm trying to understand why i should bother setting this up and running my mail through it. i have a yahoo email account and a gmail one. i have to have an internet connection for Mail to work, so why not just go directly to my two email sites to see my mail? why put another layer of computer stuff (this program) between me and the original source of my mail? i do understand one advantage - i could download and read my email while offline. i can see how, for some people, that could be a godsend. but to be honest, i can live without my email for a few hours while i'm on a plane, so it's not really an incentive for me. i can't help but think there must be a few other good reasons to use this program that i'm just not seeing. can anyone explain to me why they think this is an advantage over just going and seeing my email online? thanks

f16smoke wrote:
my yahoo email was spam-free for years. then i went to one site to check on something, and they sold it. now i delete 50-70 spam mails a day.
I am not here to defend Yahoo, but their spam filter is about a thousand percent better than it used to be. Mark those messages as spam and they will be left on Yahoo's servers.
... i simply don't want all that stuff getting spread around my Imac and Air. who knows what mac viruses and other weird stuff is embedded in it.
Neither would I, but your Mail accounts cannot affect one another any more than your Mail account could affect my Mail account.
There are no "Mac viruses" so that is not a concern either.

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