Question about best E-mail providers

[ManToManDave]

Hi Guys!

 

As I posted in the Deli, AOL has permanently deleted my account, so I am testing out other e-mail providers. My address below is Outlook Express -- which allows me to insert a pic into the body of the message, but not to check my "sent" messages.

 

I have also signed up for Yahoo and Hotmail -- which allow me to check my "sent" messages, but do NOT allow me to insert a pic into the body of the message, rather than as attachment. GRRRRRRR!

 

I need to be able to do both (hence I was using aol).

 

Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated. Thx!

 

Dave

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[+ Tom Isern]

My only advice is not to get sucked into using your ISP like I have. I'm now tethered unhappily to Time Warner until I can change all my email addresses to another carrier and notify the long list of banks, schools, book clubs, insurance agents, alumni associations, family, the energy company, my e-trade account, friends, etc.--the hundreds of people and organizations who contact me that way--of my new address. What a pain!

 

Many of my friends are techies and they seem universally pleased with Google (G-mail). That's where I'm heading eventually.

[ManToManDave]

Hi Tom!

 

Thx very much for the advice -- and I can identify with what you're going thru! grrrrr

 

I am checking out g-mail right now -- and will let ya know what I discover.

 

Dave

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[+ ArVaGuy]

Tom, I'd suggest you split your accounts which is the way I manage my e-mail addresses. For personal and business matters, there's my Comcrap...Comcast e-mail. That's for my personal banking as well as family and friends. Very few people have this address so a change would not be very disruptive for the notifications.

 

I also have two Yahoo accounts. One primary that I use most of the time and communicate for hiring purposes. The third account I use for online ordering. It gets bombarded with spam more so than my other account and so I don't have to be hasseled by that stuff very much.

 

Everybody seems to love Google but I've been using Yahoo long before Google even existed. Others have told me they dislike Google's collection of personal data for advertising purposes so I've avoided them.

[+ Gar1eth]

>Hi Guys!

>

>As I posted in the Deli, AOL has permanently deleted my

>account, so I am testing out other e-mail providers. My

>address below is Outlook Express -- which allows me to insert

>a pic into the body of the message, but not to check my

>"sent" messages.

>

 

 

 

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly do you mean by not being able to "check sent messages". I understood the part about inserting pictures into the body of an e-mail versus an attachment.

 

Also can you not use whoever hosts your website as your e-mail conduit--and then get an e-mail program such as Groupwise? Groupwise is a lot like Outlook--but I found it--at least as it is used in a corporate environment to be friendlier.

Gman

[+ deej]

Gmail. Hands down. Best spam filtering on the net, and you can continue to use it with Outlook Express. I know people with their own domain names that have everything auto-forwarded to Gmail for spam filtering, but replies are sent from their "real" email address.

 

Let me know if you'd like details.

 

(There's a setting in Tools->Options in OE that determines whether and where Sent Items are stored.)

 

A note on embedded photos: worst of all possible ways to send photos. It requires the recipient to receive "rich text" emails. If they're set to receive "plain text" (as I am, and as many savvy net users are) they won't see your embedded photos. Attaching is the only way to universally make sure the recipient can see the picture.

[Guest ryan2552]

Dave, Not sure why you cannot see sent mail in OE. But that aside what you are looking for is Google Apps. It's free and works flawlessly for my business needs. I'm certain it should meet your needs as well.

 

https://www.google.com/a

[buckyball]

G-mail, definitely. Then you can use it with Mozilla's Thunderbird which looks like outlook but is much better.

[Jlelland]

A friend in my office was playing around with the Google Advance Search feature the other day. He later showed me how he could put in one of our major competitors and out streamed a list of over 7 thousand of their clients; complete with contact names, phone numbers and other information. He then searched the name of the attorney above our office. We got copies of contracts, wills, you name it.

Evidently all attachments that go thru google stay in Google.

Does anyone know more on this??

[ManToManDave]

Hi Guys!

 

Thanks to ALL of you very much for your advice and help!

 

For now, I am using G-mail for my personal stuff, and using Outlook Express for business. I understand about "embedded" pics as possibly being a problem -- but when I send out my Newsletters, it's very effective to post a thumbnail or 2 of my new guys next to their names.

 

Best of all: I'm finding that I don't miss AOL!! I DO miss my mailing list tho. :-(

 

Here's a potentially stupid question: I have heard of IT-whizzes that say they can retrieve ANY data: Would it ever be possible for some techie to retrieve my address book from aol after my account has been terminated? Just thought I'd ask.

 

Thanaks again for your help!

 

Dave

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[Guest zipperzone]

>A friend in my office was playing around with the Google

>Advance Search feature the other day. He later showed me how

>he could put in one of our major competitors and out streamed

>a list of over 7 thousand of their clients; complete with

>contact names, phone numbers and other information. He then

>searched the name of the attorney above our office. We got

>copies of contracts, wills, you name it.

>Evidently all attachments that go thru google stay in Google.

>Does anyone know more on this??

 

If this is the case it is truly frightening. Any comments Deej?

[ManToManDave]

Well -- finally some good news. A friend showed me how to access my aol address book -- so I didn't lose my mailing list after all. YAY!

 

Dave

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[+ deej]

>>Evidently all attachments that go thru google stay in

>Google.

>>Does anyone know more on this??

>

>If this is the case it is truly frightening. Any comments

>Deej?

 

First I've heard of it, and believe me there would have been a huge hue and cry if this was truly going on. It would be a BLATANT invasion of privacy and go directly against Google's motto: "Do no evil".

 

It IS true that a frightening amount of "stuff" can be found on Google, but it's mostly stuff that people have left on unsecured web pages. Or they put something up "just for now" and plan to take it down as soon as the recipient has read it -- but by then the Google spiders have already archived and indexed it.

 

People are pretty stupid about what they'll put on a website.

[+ deej]

>For now, I am using G-mail for my personal stuff, and using

>Outlook Express for business.

 

You're sorta mixing apples and oranges. Outlook Express is an email *client*. It, alone, cannot send or receive email. There are POP and SMTP *servers* out there that do that. Outlook Express just knows how to talk to them.

 

The dirty little secret is that AOL works exactly the same way. They just hide the details from you. They've convinced users for years that they're some special kind of magic when they're really just the internet in drag.

 

>Here's a potentially stupid question: I have heard of

>IT-whizzes that say they can retrieve ANY data: Would it ever

>be possible for some techie to retrieve my address book from

>aol after my account has been terminated? Just thought I'd

>ask.

 

Depends on where it's stored. I'm not familiar with the AOL client but I'd be surprised if it didn't have a local copy (i.e. on your hard disk). I see from a later post you've recovered it, so I'll guess that is the case.

[Rick Munroe]

>People are pretty stupid about what they'll put on a website.

 

Don't I recall somebody posting your face pic here from your personal website...? :+