Need a "Professional" email address for my CV...

PardonTheWait · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:09

Carzy said:
Difference between googlemail and gmail though isn't there?

You can't get gmail addresses anymore as IIRC it came to light that some other company owns the copyright to 'gmail' or something. People who already had them got to keep them but new members get @googlemail.com

I might be completely wrong though

Jotun · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:11

Carzy said:
Difference between googlemail and gmail though isn't there?

Nope, if you have signed up with [email protected], anything sent to [email protected] will get there as well. you can also add periods in the middle I believe, eg [email protected] will go to [email protected].

I'm fairly sure about that but you probabaly want to double check it

Viper² · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:12

I just invited myself and @googlemail.com seems to be the only choice. So Mohinder's story is probably right.

Paul91 · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:15

Jotun said:
Nope, if you have signed up with [email protected], anything sent to [email protected] will get there as well.

I just checked and it worked.

Jotun · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:15

Viper² said:
I just invited myself and @googlemail.com seems to be the only choice. So Mohinder's story is probably right.

You should be able to sign up with a gmail account if you use a proxy with an american IP, as it's a UK restriction that the googlemail domain is used, although as I said in my above post you should still be able to use [email protected] regardless of which you signed up for.

Paul11 · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:17

Jotun said:
Nope, if you have signed up with [email protected], anything sent to [email protected] will get there as well. you can also add periods in the middle I believe, eg [email protected] will go to [email protected].

I'm fairly sure about that but you probabaly want to double check it

you can send to gmail and it will get to the googlemail but you cant put a full stop in there, as that is a different address belonging to someone else

Jotun · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:22

Paulus said:
you can send to gmail and it will get to the googlemail but you cant put a full stop in there, as that is a different address belonging to someone else

Try it - I just have and it works

You have to login with the periods in the same place as you signed up for, but when sending emails you can add them between letters where you want.

Also you can add extra terms in the address, eg [email protected], will still arrive in your in box so you can sign up and filter it as spam should you want, although not all websites will accept and email address with a "+" in it.

You can also combine these tricks aswell, I signed up when it was gmail still and i have [email protected]

Sending an email to [email protected] still makes its way to my inbox

BigglesPiP · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:39

for 99p I'll sell you [email protected].

1 year redirect to the email address of your choice, that or a 2MB inbox with an invalid SSL certificate.

FrostedNipple · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:41

a pro email for females is [email protected] male employers can't wait to get you in for an interview

aproctor · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:54

as long as its not offensive or childish it shouldn't matter to be honest.

Indy500 · 3 Jun 2008 at 21:59

aproctor said:
as long as its not offensive or childish it shouldn't matter to be honest.

This.

I used a free one before and nobody seemed to dislike it or anything...

Cr0fty · 3 Jun 2008 at 22:00

[email protected]?

Mr. Brightside · 3 Jun 2008 at 22:01

[email protected]

.me.uk is £6 for two years, or it was the last time I renewed mine. I've set it up to forward to a Gmail account though so I still great great webmail and spam filtering with it.

Ol!ver · 3 Jun 2008 at 22:01

Just set up a cheap domain and have it pointed at a free gmail account. That's what I did before I got my iBlog one.

Lagmeister · 3 Jun 2008 at 22:13

Get a gmx account, like gmail but new. www.gmx.com

But its cheap enough just to buy a domain name and use that to give yourself some professional addresses for stuff.

BigglesPiP · 3 Jun 2008 at 22:19

[email protected]

You may have to register your surname.name first.

byteagig · 3 Jun 2008 at 23:29

or you could choose an unusual one ! -

https://domains.aol.com/categoryBrowse.jsp

dowie · 3 Jun 2008 at 23:56

Paulus said:
you can send to gmail and it will get to the googlemail but you cant put a full stop in there, as that is a different address belonging to someone else

Wrong - you can put a full stop in there and it is still your address.

mrk · 3 Jun 2008 at 23:59

Ben M said:
[email protected]

nothing exactly wrong with that

Impossible!

Mr. Brightside said:
[email protected]

.me.uk is £6 for two years, or it was the last time I renewed mine. I've set it up to forward to a Gmail account though so I still great great webmail and spam filtering with it.

My .co.uk domain is £2 for 2 years with unlimited mail forwards, I have them going to gmail for convenience. .co.uk also looks way smarter than [email protected] !

aslco · 4 Jun 2008 at 00:02

i have. "firstname"_"surname initial"@hotmail.co.uk