email account reccomendations please

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fatboy · #1 Post by **fatboy** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:05 pm

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

Aladinsaneuk · #2 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:15 pm

Gmail

fatboy · #3 Post by **fatboy** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:31 pm

Done !

blinkey501 · #4 Post by **blinkey501** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:42 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Gmail

Is that short for Gaymail????

fatboy · #5 Post by **fatboy** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:03 pm

Now you mention it, you sound strangely attractive Jay

#6 Post by **Kwackerz** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:59 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Gmail

+1

Aladinsaneuk · #7 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:22 pm

if so Jay, i suspect you would qualify for the free reacharound account....

Willopotomas · #8 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:29 pm

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.

blinkey501 · #9 Post by **blinkey501** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:03 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:if so Jay, i suspect you would qualify for the free reacharound account....

Anytime

Willopotomas · #10 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:18 pm

Does your ISP not give you an e-mail account? Or are you specifically after an on-line based service?

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:30 pm

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.

#12 Post by **Kwackerz** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:56 pm

If you have Sky tv you can get sky email, a yahoo joint enterprise

Aladinsaneuk · #13 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:47 am

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

Firestarter · #14 Post by **Firestarter** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:09 am

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)

Dalemac · #15 Post by **Dalemac** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:18 am

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