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Email provider besides GMail or Yahoo?

prairiemoon2 z6b MA

16 years ago

Hi,

I am looking for a new email provider. I tried yahoo and had so many technical problems I couldn't use it any more. I don't want to use GMail because of their policy of scanning your email to direct advertisements to you. There has to be another email provider that is reliable and easy to use and free. If someone has that and likes it, could you share details?

Thanks very much... pm2

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
you might look at www.inbox.com
I have a couple there, they have lots of space and it is free,includes lots of other options too like photo storage, calendar, file storage, organizer.

Another one I have used in the past is www.graffiti.net
http://www.graffiti.net/
it offers only 100MB free but does offer some good options.

Here is a link that might be useful: inbox
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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
16 years ago
I've been pretty pleased with Hotmail over the years. It has been my main one for probably 10 years or so.

Sue
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azioh, I think you're prepared for a problem that's most unlikely to happen. I understand people like using these programs. For a home user (aside from a business use case when it might be required), I've never understood why. I haven't had a mail system mistakenly delete an important message. Have you? If you think that's a risk, then you could do your printout or other disposition of contents when important messages are first read. As a last resort, all messages can be re-sent. If an important one gets lost or misplaced, it should be easy enough to get a duplicate or find another way to get the attachment. Flight itineraries are especially easy to get from the airline's website, they're always available. Many travel and airline sites will do a download that can be easily imported to an electronic calendar. Google mail automatically reads flight info (like itinerary confirms) from emails and puts it on your calendar. For those using other mail systems, there are sites like Trip-it who will provide the same capability.
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person123
16 years ago
There are many...some are compared on the linked page.

Here is a link that might be useful: Webmail Comparison
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mikie_gw
16 years ago
I've used the same hotmail account since somewhere in the 90's. Works!
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DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
Ditto on Hotmail. I have four accounts and they all work pretty good.

DA
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jane__ny
16 years ago
I use them all. Have an old email account with AOL (not the browser)and that works fine. Have a few GMail accounts, but really only use them for registering at some shopping or for a website. Never thought about them scanning my mail. I really don't care. Try AOL. It's free and you get free XM Radio with it. I keep AOL on all day just for the free XM Radio.

I use my ISP for my personal stuff.

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
My primary email has been hotmail for over 10 years, I started out on MSN dial up so had the msn email and hotmail, kept the hotmail and use it daily, I know a lot of people don't care for it but it has been good for me.
I also have gmail which I set up through my thunderbird, and I like it a lot.
Yahoo I have had for years but just never cared much for it. My very first email addy was with juno back when the original juno dial up was the thing, I still have that juno addy but don't use it because it just piles up with spam.
My verizon addy I never use I hate their format.

If you like gmail but just don't like the ads then set it up through thunderbird and use it that way then you never have to see the ads or the actual gmail site. Gmail has the directions on how to do that on their site just look under the settings button, then forwarding Pop/Imap.
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prairiemoon2 z6b MA
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you all for the different ideas that I hadn't thought of and for the great comparison chart, person. I am going to check it all out!

:-)
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