Email change

[Rick Granick]

Although I have my regular email accounts through my local ISP, I have long maintained a Hotmail account to use when registering for things, commercial contact, etc. However, recent changes to Hotmail's system have made it semi-useless with my version of Safari on the Mac. Therefore I am thinking of switching my secondary email to another webmail site such as Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Any other Mac users out there under os 10.4 with an earlier version of Safari have any particular recommendations for an alternative?

Thanks.
Rick

 

[BILL WARD]

sideways observation--I was rejected, last week, from putting my biz info onto a web(used just for that purpose) because I wished to use hot mail &/or yahoo!! they would not allow anything that was "non-business"! go figure! they did, however , allow me to 'contact' them via email-----so I gave them about 2.5 pounds of my mind on their effete attitudes, etc etc

 

[Bill Henry-]

Since you have a web site, your host has probably given you some number of e-mail accounts. If you haven’t used them all, you should be able to generate another one to use just for these on-line, non-business purposes.

I have used five of the 10 my ISP provided. One of them for “personal business” (when I order something on line), and another for friends and family e-mail. The other three are related to The Framer’s Loft.

 

[Mike Labbe]

I do the same.

I have a different email address for EVERY company i have ever given it to. ex: I even use a different one for EVERY trade show registration, to see who is selling my name. (decor04atl@getthepictureframing.c0m etc) It's amazing how many folks pass your email around to other related vendors.

They all forward to my regular email account, which I have never given out. I have them set up as email FORWARDS (aliases).

If one of them starts spamming or selling my name, I just go into CPANEL and delete that email address alias. Then the problem is nipped in the bud, and lesson learned. It bounces back to them as "undeliverable".

With most webhosting companies, you can have an UNLIMITED amount of email addresses and/or aliases.

If your webhosting company uses the popular CPANEL, you can add a forwarding alias by:
Log in
Click MAIL
Click FORWARDERS
Click ADD FORWARDER
Enter alias email on the left side (what you give out),
...and the true recipient on the right (where it really goes)
Click ADD

As far as the free email companies, many of these have drawbacks because they have been abused so many times by hackers, spammers, and identity theft thieves. For example, this forum (and most others) block some of those popular email domains from being able to register. Gmail is generally the best of them, but even it has been a victim lately.

Mike

PS: You also NEVER want to put your email address on a web based forum, or on your web site. It will become a major spam/spyware magnet. It's best to hide your email behind a "contact form". This collects their comments, and sends it to your email; without revealing it to folks who may be harvesting them. If you really want to put this out there, I suggest doing so with one of the aliases (as above), and changing it periodically.