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Windows Forum / Windows XP / General Topics 1 / May 2008Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. >I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. >I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that >strictly via IE. I have nine email accounts <g>. Four of them are web-based. For easy access without having to use the web interface, go with Gmail. Google's Gmail. Spam filter is very good and it supports Outlook Express, Outlook 2003 & 2007 JS > I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. > I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly > via IE. > I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. > I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly > via IE. What's best depends on how you want to use it. Clearly, from your mention of Outlook and Thunderbird, you aren't only going to use it as web mail. So, you want one that can be accessed from regular mail clients. I use Gmail because it's easy to set up for POP/SMTP and the sending server can be used with other email accounts. This is meaningful when your ISP's sending server requires that you be connected to their network, which is often not possible if you travel. Plus, I have generally found that Google has a reasonable idea of how to keep a server running, and I've found it to be vastly more stable than my ISP's mail since they outsourced to Hotmail. HTH -pk The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what you want it to do. Mark > I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. > I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly > via IE. You can get round that by renaming the .exe in the executable attachment to something like .xyz before sending, and instruct the recipient at the other end to change it back to .exe after it arrives. It works. > The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an > attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that >> strictly via IE. Thanks for the tip. Sometimes it's the simple things. Mark > You can get round that by renaming the .exe in the executable attachment > to something like .xyz before sending, and instruct the recipient at the [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that >>> strictly via IE. You are welcome > Thanks for the tip. Sometimes it's the simple things. > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>>> And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that >>>> strictly via IE. |
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