If I change my forum email to hotmail...

shauncr91

shauncr91

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Will I get insta-banned?

I remember years ago it banned people with public domain emails, is this still the same? My hotmail account is now my primary account and would like to use that as my forum account :/
 
Mark A said:
Is Gmail better for filtering out spam? I currently have nearly 4000 unread emails because i got bored of deleting spam every day lol.
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you should have 2 accounts, 1 for important stuff, internet orders or anything that might email you unexpectedly, and one for when you will pretty much only be emailed for confirming email adress/forggeting passwords. You can then also use the latter for anything on the web at all.
 
Mark A said:
Is Gmail better for filtering out spam? I currently have nearly 4000 unread emails because i got bored of deleting spam every day lol.
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I've found hotmail to be really good for spam, I've got mine tied to Outlook and I've received about one spam email versus about 300 relevant emails.

If you sign up for crap, I don't think it matters how good your spam filter is, you'll get harassed by spam quite heavily.
 
Mr. Anderson said:
you should have 2 accounts, 1 for important stuff, internet orders or anything that might email you unexpectedly, and one for when you will pretty much only be emailed for confirming email adress/forggeting passwords. You can then also use the latter for anything on the web at all.
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Good point, I do this, and my addresses are almost the same, a hyphen differentiates them.

One tied to my Windows Live Messenger account, and they're both tied together so I can quick swap between them on the hotmail site if I'm not using outlook for it.
 
my important one is my isp email, i can use thunderbird with it then and have email download any potential important messages as soon as i get them, and hotmail for tosh. Although i do also have a uni address for academic stuff, which also comes through on thunderbird. I believe you can youse thunderbird with gmail! Email would be pish with out 3rd party pop3 clients.
 
I consider myself a pretty heavy email user, I switched to gmail at the very beginning and haven't looked back. I was using it to check my uni email [when I had it], my ISP mail [when I had it] and I have 2 gmail accounts going into one.
I hardly get any spam and don't miss anything that you get with third-party POP3/IMAP clients. In fact, I would never use the download+delete-from-server mode of POP3 again since you can't see your mails when travelling without your main machine - this way I have a single point of access to all my emails, I can get onto it from anywhere in the world with internet, have it pushed to my iPhone via gmail push (along with all my contacts/calendar items that are continuously synced too) and have the ability to search through it pretty quickly thanks to gmail search.

I use my email as a notebook, todo list and keeping track of pretty much everything. Not sure what I would do without it. I take exceptional care when accessing it outside of my trusted network and change the password every 3 months or so.
I've also scanned in all my bills+other household bits and bobs as PDF files and stored them on my Google Docs... If my password is hacked, I'm done!
 
Mark A said:
Is Gmail better for filtering out spam? I currently have nearly 4000 unread emails because i got bored of deleting spam every day lol.
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Hard to say. My first gmail account is spamtastic (although i got it during the initial gmail release phase so managed to secure realname @gmail.com, which is easy to use a spam bot for).

My second, made a few months ago, is exactly the same plus the letters "alt" after my name, and hasn't recieved a single spam email.

Don't use your name, probably be fine!
 
i find gmail to be amazing when it comes to spam, i get maybe 1 spam through a week (if that sometimes) and it never sends non spam to the spam folder

how many times did i say spam in this post



spam :p
 
Gmail is awesome for filtering spam, I get 1 or 2 a month max in my inbox. and I've never had a real message go into Spam
 
Can't remember the last time I had a spam email to my gmail address - I get more to my work email tbh. Have had a few false positives though.
 
I get craploads of spam in my gmail each month BUT 99% of it goes automatically into SPAM which is great. I check it every now and then for a false spam but it's 99.9% accurate 100% of the time!

My actual gmail address itself gets little to no spam but my domain email which forwards to gmail does hence the monthly intake, no issue though.
 
I've been with yahoo.co.uk for 3 years now and love them very little spam gets through.

Dunno about the file size of mails but i don't ever send anything huge anyway.
 
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