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[feliscatusx2]

Evening all.

I need a backup E-Mail account, and Webmail would suit.  I am about to sign up with G-Mail, but before I do can anybody suggest a superior alternative?

I am also trying to kill my Plusnet E-Mail account without much success, (treadmills sping to mind), but we will get there in the end.

[kitz]

G-Mail seems to be the "in vogue" favourite by many.

[Astral]

I've used BT Yahoo for years with only minor, infrequent problems. Never lost any data.

[kitz]

>> I've used BT Yahoo for years with only minor, infrequent problems. Never lost any data.

Sore point for me.  I was one of those that lost stuff when they moved between BTinternet >> BTyahoo period.   
Then at one point I used to get so much spam into it that when I forgot to check it for a month it had accumulated something like several thousand spam mails (something like 6-7,000 iirc) which blocked my mail.  - This wasnt the spam folder but the main inbox.
In the end I had to phone up BT and get one of their agents to delete everything (including valid mail). :/
Must admit their spam filter is a heck of a lot better these days though

Ive also used hotmail for years - but many a time Ive lost mails etc because Ive forgotten to log in once a month.

So I suppose the moral is that who-ever you use their will always be pros and cons.

[Astral]

Perhaps I lead a charmed life, but I only get 1 or 2 spams in my inbox per month. I get plenty in my spam box, of course, and I always run an eye over them just in case a legit one goes in there.

[kitz]

Dunno what it is with my bt mail cause there was a period when it seemed like I'd get tons of the stuff.
 
For example if my email addy was me@
Then I'd also get spam addressed to
me@
me1@
men@
metal@

Its obviously dictionary type spammer that were just guessing and sending to all including lots of Bccs.
Its also possibly because I had a fairly guessable account name.. if it was something less obvious then I doubt that I would have had the same problems.
Granted they do seem to have sorted that now and it is filtered much much better than it used to be.

[roseway]

I've found GMail to be fast and reliable. At the moment I use it for everything - mail to my personal domain is redirected there. And it's quite straightforward to pick it up by POP3 as well as webmail.

[soms]

Agreed Google Mail is very good. Been using it for two years now both POP3 and webmail. Very easy to use, no graphic adverts etc

[feliscatusx2]

Thanks all, going with G-Mail.

I raised a ticket with PN asking them to switch off the PN mail address, got a reply to say I could do it through Manage my Mail page - wrong answer.

They have now closed it from their end.

I never used it, everything including PN Admin messages goes to Fastmail, but got a lot of SPAM recently due to a security breach with Squirrel Mail.

Noticed last night that the backup mail address registered with Fastmail (for sending passwords etc.) was closed 4 years ago