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The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:41 pm
by Butterfly
I need to get a new account, as my old has been hacked.
Which one is the best.... Googlemail, hotmail, AOL, Yahoo etc....?!
Any advice would be really appreciated!

Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:48 pm
by northwales4u
I've always used Yahoo! and never had any problems with it if thats any help
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:58 pm
by wine~o
northwales4u wrote:I've always used Yahoo! and never had any problems with it if thats any help
Me too.(Yahoo that is..) until recently..when every-one in my address book got an e-mail from me...with my name as the subject..luckily just an empty e-mail..
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:39 pm
by northwales4u
wine~o wrote:northwales4u wrote:I've always used Yahoo! and never had any problems with it if thats any help
Me too.(Yahoo that is..) until recently..when every-one in my address book got an e-mail from me...with my name as the subject..luckily just an empty e-mail..
Do you use Facebook? The only reason I ask is that everyday I get emails just like the one you sent and they just happen to be people on Facebook who do all the game things on it like Mafia Wars etc - just seems a big coincidence to me
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:09 pm
by Butterfly
I have facebook, but I don't use any of those games or applications.
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:17 pm
by Mooncat
I use Operamail, free but only 3meg inbox limit, and email.ro from Astral Telekom with 20meg allowance, better for forum messages receipt.
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:22 pm
by northwales4u
Butterfly wrote:I have facebook, but I don't use any of those games or applications.
Its because one of the people I get these emails off is only on my facebook and xbox so the only way he could get my email address is via facebook - just a thought
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:42 am
by wine~o
northwales4u wrote:wine~o wrote:northwales4u wrote:I've always used Yahoo! and never had any problems with it if thats any help
Me too.(Yahoo that is..) until recently..when every-one in my address book got an e-mail from me...with my name as the subject..luckily just an empty e-mail..
Do you use Facebook? The only reason I ask is that everyday I get emails just like the one you sent and they just happen to be people on Facebook who do all the game things on it like Mafia Wars etc - just seems a big coincidence to me
Nope..never been on Face-book...

Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:40 am
by lagi
If you want a .com one instead of a .co.uk one, remember to make your zip code an american one.
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:03 am
by dave.m
Remember with web mail that you need to have access to the web to read even your old, previous delivered mail, and if your broadband connection is playing up you cannot access your old mail off-line, unless you have copied and saved every single one.
An account with your ISP means that you can work off line with your past mail. Just means setting up a new account if you change ISPs in the future.
I have one with Plusnet for family (only a few in the address book so not many to inform if I change ISP.
Also have a Gmail account for online purchases.
A Windows Livemail does for forums and other web use.
Finally, I have a Yahoo Canada one for the sites that need you to register to access certain bits of the site.
dave
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:19 am
by northwales4u
dave.m wrote:Remember with web mail that you need to have access to the web to read even your old, previous delivered mail, and if your broadband connection is playing up you cannot access your old mail off-line, unless you have copied and saved every single one.
An account with your ISP means that you can work off line with your past mail. Just means setting up a new account if you change ISPs in the future.
With Yahoo! you can set it up so you can use an email application to download your emails to read them offline but I prefer to keep it web-based so I can check my emails when I am on holiday etc
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:42 pm
by village idiot
i have googlemail (sky also use googlemail) & have configured outlook to retrieve my email
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:51 pm
by Mooncat
Windows Live Messenger loads when I start. Does anyone here use it, and why?
Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:52 pm
by thescruff
A 14 year old girl on face book invited her friends to a party and posted her address.
The Police have stepped in, the party is cancelled, after 22000 reckon they will turn up.

Re: The best webmail account?!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:11 pm
by village idiot
Mooncat wrote:Windows Live Messenger loads when I start. Does anyone here use it, and why?
there was an upgrade a fair while back & now my messenger no longer works, i was handy sometimes but a lot of the time i made use of the hide on-line status facility