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email account reccomendations please
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:05 pm
by fatboy
Hotmail are shit, recent updates are worse still, can no longer forward emails, Micro$oft are just polishing the old turd,and its still a turd
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:15 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
Gmail
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:31 pm
by fatboy
Done !
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:42 pm
by blinkey501
Aladinsaneuk wrote:Gmail
Is that short for Gaymail????
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:03 pm
by fatboy
Now you mention it, you sound strangely attractive Jay

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:59 pm
by Kwackerz
Aladinsaneuk wrote:Gmail
+1

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:22 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
if so Jay, i suspect you would qualify for the free reacharound account....
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:29 pm
by Willopotomas
Aladinsaneuk wrote:if so Jay, i suspect you would qualify for the free reacharound account....
This made me chuckle.. I don't know why.. But it did.

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:03 pm
by blinkey501
Aladinsaneuk wrote:if so Jay, i suspect you would qualify for the free reacharound account....
Anytime

Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:18 pm
by Willopotomas
Does your ISP not give you an e-mail account? Or are you specifically after an on-line based service?
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:30 pm
by D-Rider
Willopotomas wrote:Does your ISP not give you an e-mail account? Or are you specifically after an on-line based service?
Problem with ISP addys is that you end up a bit tied to the ISP or everyone you know losses track when you move ....... unless you buy your own domain name and forward the mail to whichever ISP you happen to be using.
That's my strategy.
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:56 pm
by Kwackerz
If you have Sky tv you can get sky email, a yahoo joint enterprise

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:47 am
by Aladinsaneuk
And having seen how shit the security is on a yahoo account - bt also use yahoo, and seen how the spam farmers loved it , I would not touch it
I closed the bt accounts.....
And gmail is portable and has a full calendar etc
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:09 am
by Firestarter
D-Rider wrote:Willopotomas wrote:Does your ISP not give you an e-mail account? Or are you specifically after an on-line based service?
Problem with ISP addys is that you end up a bit tied to the ISP or everyone you know losses track when you move ....... unless you buy your own domain name and forward the mail to whichever ISP you happen to be using.
That's my strategy.
ISPs also typically don't let you send an email via SMTP etc unless you're connected to their system (although you can using webmail) - I've got TalkTalk, and an Orange phone, can't send from my TalkTalk account over the Orange 3G. So I've got a Yahoo and an iCloud account on my phone, which works over any connection.
I've got 4 Yahoo accounts - 3 are fine, one gets spammed to death (but I use that for newsletters, so the spam just comes along with it)
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:18 am
by Dalemac
I have about 7 seven email addresses.
I tend to keep most going to my gmail account as it is all centralised and i will never change that account.
One at work is for work.
I also have @dalemckeown.co.uk addresses, but with no *decent* web interface I tend not to use it so much.
Then there is old msn/hotmail accounts, ISP email accounts, etc.
But most of the time i use my gmail. Their spam and unsubscribe filters are great.
Dale