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maestro · Post by **maestro** » 13 May 2006, 04:37

Hi, do anyone know how to stop tenths of junkmail pouring to my hotmail box everyday ?
I dont need any debt reliefs, penis enlargement nor viagra pills which ppl keep offer me

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 13 May 2006, 05:10

Gmail.

Claire · Post by **Claire** » 13 May 2006, 07:45

Well I suggest making a heavy filter on hotmail or dropping hotmail altogether. They aren't a very good client to use for email.

Bruce's suggestion for gmail is great. I love gmail.

Which ever you choose I suggest having two. One for all the sign ups you have to do and to give out to people you have just met and stuff. And one for more serious matter, like school, or employers ect.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 13 May 2006, 09:36

Claire wrote:Which ever you choose I suggest having two. One for all the sign ups you have to do and to give out to people you have just met and stuff. And one for more serious matter, like school, or employers ect.

Aye to that, signups can be a major spam magnet.
An you can have a decent (lame) email-address to give to your employers, and a memorable one for your mates.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 13 May 2006, 11:25

http://www.unitedemailsystems.com

best web email ever.

Check them out. If 1 piece of spam ever makes it past their filters I'll eat my shirt.

BvDorp · Post by **BvDorp** » 13 May 2006, 12:14

Forboding Angel wrote:www.unitedemailsystems.com

best web email ever.

Check them out. If 1 piece of spam ever makes it past their filters I'll eat my shirt.

Make a video of it, plz??

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 13 May 2006, 13:18

Forboding Angel wrote:www.unitedemailsystems.com

best web email ever.

Check them out. If 1 piece of spam ever makes it past their filters I'll eat my shirt.

What antispam system do they use? Do you have to constantly check your spam box to make sure legit stuff hasn't been blocked?

Aun · Post by **Aun** » 13 May 2006, 13:49

SwiftSpear wrote:
Forboding Angel wrote:www.unitedemailsystems.com

best web email ever.

Check them out. If 1 piece of spam ever makes it past their filters I'll eat my shirt.
What antispam system do they use? Do you have to constantly check your spam box to make sure legit stuff hasn't been blocked?

Barracuda, according to their site.

Nice time to link, Forb, considering that their site is down for a week. =P

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 13 May 2006, 14:23

Isn't it possible to read your hotmail mail box with any client? You could use Thunderbird on your hotmail email address and then use the junk filter of TB.

AF · Post by AF » 13 May 2006, 17:51

hmm, the onyl ever spam I got that came through a GMail filter was an email with nothing but ?'s where they where foreign letters and it had no sender etc, but that was ages ago, and none of my legit stuff ever goes into the spam folder...

That and GMail has too many features for me to switch to another webmail....

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 13 May 2006, 18:26

I have gmail... i don't think I would bother with anything else.

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 13 May 2006, 23:13

Rayden wrote:Isn't it possible to read your hotmail mail box with any client? You could use Thunderbird on your hotmail email address and then use the junk filter of TB.

I don't use spamfeast hotmail but doesn't it not allow to send mails? As far as i know, those web mails allow for downloading mail but not sending through it.

That can be worked around if you are on Linux since they often come with a mail service active, sendmail, which you can use to send mail. Although Thunderbird doesn't work with the bastard...

Thunderbird is my favourite because KMail and the great Evolution don't work on Windows, only on Linux and i want to use them on both platforms.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 14 May 2006, 01:08

gmail includes free SMTP access!!

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 14 May 2006, 03:03

I haven't done it, but I thought that you could only access hotmail accounts remotely through Microsoft Outlook, a proprietary thing.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 14 May 2006, 05:43

FizWizz wrote:I haven't done it, but I thought that you could only access hotmail accounts remotely through Microsoft Outlook, a proprietary thing.

I'm pretty sure it's just standard POP3.

I don't trust GMail; they record all your email and could be forced to hand it over to the government. The government does not need my emails.

If you use a Hotmail or other crapmail account for all signups, form entries, etc. and use a "safe" email account for all real communications, you should be good. Might have to change "safe" email accounts fairly regularly. I've had mine for, oh, two years without anything other than the random 1000-address-at-a-time spam; now I'm getting a little bit. If you ever have to post your email address on a forum spambot-proof it, like xxMyEmailAddress-at-xxMyServer-dot-comxx.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 May 2006, 08:38

FizWizz wrote:I haven't done it, but I thought that you could only access hotmail accounts remotely through Microsoft Outlook, a proprietary thing.

Actually, it's IMAP support, and it's not that good... It does work tho.

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 14 May 2006, 17:34

Felix the Cat wrote:...
If you use a Hotmail or other crapmail account for all signups, form entries, etc. and use a "safe" email account for all real communications, you should be good. ...

Why not use a "safe" email for junk and another "safe" email for real stuff?

Why bother at all with spamfeast email addresses like hotmail? That crappy piece of shit only allows 2 or 3 MBs of space, anyway. That won't even be able to hold spam and registrations.

AF · Post by AF » 14 May 2006, 18:31

You used to be able to access hotmail externally, but now it's only available to paying customers with a full copy of Microsoft Outlook.

Gmail has pop3 through ssh, and I think IMAP too, not to mention a notifier, adn google toolbar integration

Also saying that you dont trust gmail because they store all your email is silly, all email providers do that else you wouldnt have an inbox! And there are laws protecting the contents of email, the government would need to ahev a damned good reason to get their hands on it in which case it doesnt matter whcih email provider you choose be it gmail hotmail, they wont see any difference and demand the emaisl be handed over.

So really hotmail is just as untrustworthy as gmail if you cite those reasons.

As for hotmail onyl havign 2-3MB I think it's higher than that, 250MB last tiem I checked with paying customers gettign 2GB, but Gmail offers 2.7GB free atm and it's continuosly being upgrade. They upgraded everyone to 2.5GB then that started going up immediatly after as they added extra storage, since then it's risen 200MB and the rate of increase is getting faster too.

That and on hotmail you see flashy adverts in your way with images and animation, adverts which are nowhere to be seen on gmail..

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 14 May 2006, 18:42

gmail is just mail. nothing else.
Hotmails tend to be your entire life.
if you compare the pro's and cons. I don't see a reason to prefer hotmail over Gmail, unless you like advert or non effective sites.
(Af for MSN, you can use your Gmail account too)

AF · Post by AF » 14 May 2006, 18:52

Gmail is just mail, if you want it that way.

But if you want more you can have more (for example change your country to US and you get RSS feeds and browser based GTalk, and quick contacts, which can also be turned off)

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