Free email accounts

[TheNinja]

I use hotmail. In fact I've had my hotmail account for probably 15 years. If I was starting a new one I'd probably use gmail, but since everyone knows my hotmail I'm sticking with it.

 

[loup garou]

Office Live Basics
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX101534261033.aspx

Free domain registration & 25 email accounts. Webmail only through Live mail (hotmail). You can host a lame website too if you want to.

 

[dartworth]

yahoo beta

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: LeiZaK

Originally posted by: Muse
I have a need for an alternate email account because I'm a DJ at a college radio station. I need one that people will be able to remember and spell when they hear it on the radio. My current ISP is SBC Global/Yahoo/Pacbell (Who the hell they are, I don't know. Maybe their lawyers know, their MBA's, but I don't). Anyway, my email addresses all end with pacbell.net and I don't want to spell it for people. Something like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com, people know how to spell and can remember. I guess I already have an email account at yahoo.com, but I never use it or check it. I will certainly have less choice of usernames at accounts like that, but I can probably work one up I like. I've been hearing occasional negative things about the free mass email accounts, so I want a bit of assurance before I set something up what with the potential to shoot myself in the foot. I don't need that. Thanks for help on this.

Your ISP is now the new AT&T by the way.

Argh! I'm afraid you're right. Uh, Pacbell/SBC/Yahoo/AT&T. So why's it still @pacbell.net? 'Cause it was originally, I suppose. Does Pacbell/SBC/Yahoo have anything to do with it? Danged if I know.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: FishTaco
Does your radio station have a website? I would think an email address from the radio station's website domain would be the most professional.

Indeed, but AFAIK we don't support it. I'll bring up the subject. We've had lots of pipe dreams that haven't born fruit. A website, we do have, however.

Originally posted by: sdifox
Thought you can just sign up at gmail without invite? Anyway, back to op's question. Personally, I use a layered defense. I have 4 layers of email, I always give out the outmost one and move them slowly to the inner core.

 

[Muse]

A few questions about gmail:

1. Signing up for gmail, I'm asked if I want to enable Web History. Should I do it?

2. I use Mailwasher Free to screen my emails (and further filter them) before downloading to my computers. It lets me have a look at everything before my email client sorts them into myriad folders... so many that I only check them when I know something interesting sits there, for the most part. To do this in Mailwasher, I need to create an account for the email address and enter some fields, including:

SMTP server address

POP3 server address

Can I do this for gmail or am I limited to accessing directly from their website? If I can't access the account using Mailwasher, I'll have to specifically check my gmail account to find out if I got emails to that address rather than have those emails show up in my one screen shows all Mailwasher window.

Edit: I guess I'll never get Mailwasher to work with gmail unless I install a more recent version (and then it's still a maybe). I'm using version 1.33, and a thread I found said you have to use at least version 5 so you can specify ports. Thread

 

[WildHorse]

I use www.linuxmail.org

 

[SuperSix]

I have both Gmail and Yahoo, both have their strong points.

I will side with Yahoo - I had GMail's "Star" feature, and I find it a bit more difficult to manueuver.

I still maintain both, but my GMail is more of a spam account.

Hotmail REALLY sucks - stay far away.

 

[Lonyo]

Not Gmail, I have had problems with lost emails (definitely lost, as I got them resent, they didn't arrive, then I got them sent to a different address, my Hotmail one, and they did arrive)
I've managed to use Hotmail without issue (aside from spam getting through) for 7+ years now.

 

[Alone]

Good
GMail

Bad
*

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Or if you really want to seem professional, register a domain name and then have that go to your Gmail account. Any company that uses an email address from a free service comes across as being not very professional.

Godaddy + Google Apps for your Domain FTW.

(I'm sure there's others, I use namecheap, but I know godaddy works directly with GAFYD...I had to use zoneedit to properly set the domain redirections with mine).

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I use hotmail. In fact I've had my hotmail account for probably 15 years. If I was starting a new one I'd probably use gmail, but since everyone knows my hotmail I'm sticking with it.

forward your hotmail to the gmail

 

[Imyourzero]

Gmail, if for no other reason than Gspace.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: totalcommand

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I use hotmail. In fact I've had my hotmail account for probably 15 years. If I was starting a new one I'd probably use gmail, but since everyone knows my hotmail I'm sticking with it.

forward your hotmail to the gmail

This gave me an idea. My main requirement in setting up Mailwasher with the gmail account is just to see that I have mail. So, I activated forwarding in gmail and am forwarding all posts to my gmail account to my day-in day-out email account, which shows up in Mailwasher. That would seem to be a reasonable way of handling things. I'm all set up now. Next show I do is Monday morning, and I can announce my new address. Thanks all!

 

[randomlinh]

you can use gmail as a pop server. you just have to turn it on. but you still have to go to the web version to check the messages marked as spam.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
you can use gmail as a pop server. you just have to turn it on. but you still have to go to the web version to check the messages marked as spam.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have to use email clients that support mapping ports and turning on SSL. My version of Mailwasher doesn't do that. I suppose I'll still have to check out gmail's spamming practices to make sure it's not crunching the wrong folks, if it's anything like ATT's. ATT's is pretty good, but I have had to set up a handful of filters to protect the innocent.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: randomlinh
you can use gmail as a pop server. you just have to turn it on. but you still have to go to the web version to check the messages marked as spam.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have to use email clients that support mapping ports and turning on SSL. My version of Mailwasher doesn't do that. I suppose I'll still have to check out gmail's spamming practices to make sure it's not crunching the wrong folks, if it's anything like ATT's. ATT's is pretty good, but I have had to set up a handful of filters to protect the innocent.

errr.. wow, I have not heard of any modern client that didn't support SSL. forwarding works too as you have set up already.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: randomlinh
you can use gmail as a pop server. you just have to turn it on. but you still have to go to the web version to check the messages marked as spam.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have to use email clients that support mapping ports and turning on SSL. My version of Mailwasher doesn't do that. I suppose I'll still have to check out gmail's spamming practices to make sure it's not crunching the wrong folks, if it's anything like ATT's. ATT's is pretty good, but I have had to set up a handful of filters to protect the innocent.

errr.. wow, I have not heard of any modern client that didn't support SSL. forwarding works too as you have set up already.

I won't bother trying to access gmail with my email client Agent 1.92x because it doesn't support multiple email accounts. Forwarding effectively works around this problem. I suppose calling Mailwasher Free an email client is a stretch. It's not really an email client, well, not precisely. Anyway, the version 1.33 I'm using of that evidently does not support SSL or port configurations. Anyway, the forwarding works around that problem too, or so it seems.