Email at Hotmail, other accounts
Brad Cortright
mail from the U of I and other ISPs, which is nice especially on the
road. Second, they have a pretty good spam filter, so that 95% of spam
never makes it into your inbox.
Good Luck,
Brad
Chris Hickersberger wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on which of Hotmail, juno, etc... places is the best? Are
> there any that will let you retrieve mail using POP or IMAP? I just
> graduated, and I know my account will die sometime in august or september,
> and it would be nice if I could keep using pop or imap, and have one
> specific account that isnt tied to my ISP.
>
> - Chris
> hick...@uiuc.edu
Jim Grisham
accounts(@uofimail.com) with POP access (I'm not sure about IMAP, but
wouldn't count on it if I were you) Look for this starting August at
www.dailyillini.com.
Apple also offers mac.com addresses for free to Apple Macintosh OS9
users. You actually only need to use a Mac to sign up- you can use it
from amy internet savvy OS/computer. It's not web-based, but uses POP3
and maybe IMAP. If you want web based, use a yahoo client to check it
via POP, and if you don't want (@mac.com) there are free email
forwarding services out there.
Good luck,
Jim
(Disclaimer: I work for the Illini Media Company, parent company of The
Daily Illini, Buzz, The Illio, The Illinois Technograph, and WPGU 107.1
The Planet)
In article <6tv15.997$3G5....@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, "Chris
Hickersberger" <hick...@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Any thoughts on which of Hotmail, juno, etc... places is the best? Are
> there any that will let you retrieve mail using POP or IMAP? I just
> graduated, and I know my account will die sometime in august or september,
> and it would be nice if I could keep using pop or imap, and have one
> specific account that isnt tied to my ISP.
>
> - Chris
> hick...@uiuc.edu
>
>
>
--
Jim Grisham
jgri...@uiuc.edu
Jim Grisham
Outlook(or Outlook Express).
Jim
In article <39468C48...@uiuc.edu>, Brad Cortright
<b-c...@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I use hotmail, which has several nice features. First, you can get pop
> mail from the U of I and other ISPs, which is nice especially on the
> road. Second, they have a pretty good spam filter, so that 95% of spam
> never makes it into your inbox.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Brad
>
Josh Birnbaum
wrote:
>P.S. I think that you can check a Hotmail account with Microsoft
>Outlook(or Outlook Express).
You can check a hotmail account with Outlook Express. Outlook support
was originally part of Office 2000 SR-1 (service release 1) but was
dropped. Maybe I've just missed it, but I haven't heard any news on
when or if it will be finished.
--
Josh Birnbaum
jrbi...@uiuc.edu
bill...@my-deja.com
"Chris Hickersberger" <hick...@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Any thoughts on which of Hotmail, juno, etc... places is the best? Are
> there any that will let you retrieve mail using POP or IMAP? I just
> graduated, and I know my account will die sometime in august or september,
> and it would be nice if I could keep using pop or imap, and have one
> specific account that isnt tied to my ISP.
Before you consider Hotmail, check out the following link. I have not been
able to access my Hotmail account since Friday. Others have not been able to
check their accounts since the previous Friday (12 days and counting). If
this is acceptable to you, by all means use Hotmail. I though it was OK
until this interminable fiasco. (On the other hand, Yahoo Mail has had
maximum outages of a few hours at most in my experience.)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2064655.html?tag=st
(Hotmail maintenance locks out members ...)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Mark Hilgart
>
> I use hotmail, which has several nice features. First, you can get pop
> mail from the U of I and other ISPs, which is nice especially on the
> road. Second, they have a pretty good spam filter, so that 95% of spam
> never makes it into your inbox.
Yep, hotmail has a nice interface and has always worked quickly and
reliably for me. What I like is finding an inbox full of spam, and with
two clicks, I can block all the addresses. No fuss, no e-mailing
"remove" replies, no learning procmail, just two clicks.
--
Mark Hilgart
hil...@uiuc.edu