Which email service provider do you prefer?

[Torsten]

Since you are all Internet users, you most certainly also have at least one email account. Now, what email service providers do you prefer? Also, do you use a web based email account or a POP3 account or both?

Thanks for sharing your experiences,
Torsten
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[Che Gevara]

Other = mail.ru
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[Yankee]

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I've got more than one e-mail address, one of which is yahoo. I also have a web.de address. Interestingly, I tried to sign up on a new forum recently and my web.de address was rejected! They would not allow me to register with that e-mail address! Apparently there is a lot of spam that comes from web.de addresses nowadays -- which really surprises because it wasn't all that easy to get a web.de address to begin with! I guess web.de doesn't really police its users.

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I also used to have a t-online address when I was in Germany. Believe it or not, that e-mail address became a problem too, because some of the big international companies I did business with started blocking e-mail coming from t-online! That really annoyed me seeing as I had to pay for the "privilege" of having that particular e-mail address.
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[Torsten]

Hi Amy,

As far as I know web.de used to be quite good at both at filtering spam as well as preventing spammers from using web.de to send spam. However, they don't seem to have invested as much in new technology as other providers, in particular Google.

Regarding T-Online, the brand is decline too since its parent company decided to merge their services and maybe spammers are leveraging the weaknesses of T-Online's obsolete technology.

What are your experiences with Yahoo Mail? Are you happy with its functionality and spam filter?
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[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi!

As a private user of the internet I only have a t-online address. Unless the usual cookies which appear at every site I don´t get any spams, especially not at my e-mail address although my wife often do some e-bay business. I take it as an effect of the security progamme I have installed (Norton Security). While I was hunting a job about one year ago I never had problems with e-mails to or from companies, which resided in Germany all with the exception of one from Norway.

The company I´m working for, too, has a t-online address but another provider who is a not really a provider (just a router). For virus protection the company uses the spy bot (share ware, I think) and receives some advertisements for viagra, some other aphrodisiaca some quite stupid tryings to catch the pin and tan numbers of their accounts , invitations for playing poker and so on......., every day!

Amy, by the way, what security programme do you use? I mean, as much as I know it sometimes happens that two different progammes don´t accept each other.

Michael

[NinaZara]

Yahoo for me. And of course the Japanese version, because it doesn't give me !"##$%&'" every time a Japanese friend send me an email. I do have the American version of it but even when I change the encoding, it still gives $%"#"$.
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