We have been having consistant little problems with netscape’s email.
Primarily when we try to send email we keep on getting Error response 110, which means ( as far as we can figure out) that we have to empty the trash can, sign out, sign back in again and then try to mail. Sometimes it takes ten-fifteen tries to get a stinking letter out.
I get far too much spam email anyway, so I was going to change my main account over to something else.
Any suggestions?
Are you referring to web-based e-mail or the e-mail client (i.e. Netscape Messenger)?
I have used Bluelight.com for the last 3 years or so and have never had any problem at all with the service. I always connect on the 1st try, usually at 48000+ bps. Even the thread I posted a few days ago about DNS errors turned out to be tha one of my kiddies apparently changed some settings on my firewall without my knowlege. Not much Bluelight can do about my progeny, I guess. The cost is $9.95 per month. For that you get unlimited hours and about 1 MB email space. I think it’s now powered by Juno, mine is still under Spinway. Don’t know if that will make a difference in service level.
I have my own domain which is where my email is hosted and I run the server that it’s hosted on, which means that my email is through ME! Probably not a solution that is useful for everyone though…
I have been having issues with netscape email (they don’t allow you to block anything, as far as I can tell) ranging from having to put messages in the trash bin several times before I am successful to emptying the trash multiple times to having to sign in five consecutive times in the space of a few minutes to not being able to send messages for hours (bonus points if you’ve got a nice big file attached or it’s an important email or something similar).
I have had this account since before I got to college in 1999. Needless to say, I have a good deal invested in it in terms of the people who know to contact me there. Were I to switch email accounts to something new I’d still be checking the old one to see who I forgot to tell I’d switched accounts.
I’m in the same boat with you, punha, this is the only email I’ve had for years.
Does anyone have a hotmail or yahoo account and have problems with them?
I have both a Yahoo and an MSN Hotmail account. The Yahoo, which I use primarily for job searching, works very well for me, and I get very little spam. The Hotmail, which I use primarily for bill paying and travel arrangements, gets a bit more spam, and although I try to access it via Outlook it fairly frequently cannot connect. It works well enough for me to continue using, though.
I have an excite.com email address that I’ve been using for years, that gets a good deal more spam.
My ISP-provided email address, Adelphia, get a SHITLOAD of spam. I deal with it via the free Spambayes Outlook plugin, which works quite well.
I use a web based e-mail account through MyWay.com . It is smaller than Hotmail and Yahoo. They do have filtes and I don’t get much spam. Just don’t use the speed bar.
I have 2 Hotmail accounts and one e-mail account through ICQmail. Hotmail currently is not a bad option, but historically it has had it’s good times and bad times. ICQMail has always worked well for me, but their filter options leave much to be desired.
Yahoo’s spam controls have been substantially improved. In the past, if you got a spam email you had to open it and then select Spam, which deleted it and marked the sender’s email as a spammer. However, if you received many, many spam emails in a particular session, you didn’t want to spend 30 minutes opening each one to spammify it.
Now, there’s a check box next to each email in the Inbox, and all you have to do is check the box and click Spam, without opening the email itself. You can do a lot of them at once.
So for me, Yahoo’s pretty good. It’s my backup email, though - I use Earthlink (at least for another month or so).
If you’re looking for an alternative web-based e-mail (other than Yahoo and Hotmail, which are both OK), try www.fastmail.fm. It’s hands down the best free webmail out there, and it’s very reliable and fast. Among its many advantages is that you can chose different domains, and there is no limit on the size of attachments. However, they do have a monthly bandwidth cap if you have a free account. Premium accounts are not that expensive either, and they allow you to use an e-mail client to retrieve messages (POP3, IMAP, etc.). Check out the site for more info.
The main problem with Yahoo and Hotmail is the spam. Spammers target yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses, so you’ll be flooded in no time.
I’ve had a Yahoo! e-mail for years, and I’ve never had a problem with it. I’m absolutely loving their new Spam Filter system, and though I get many spam letters a day, it all just goes in my Bulk Mail and I hardly even have to look at it, if I don’t want to. I still check on occasion to see if anything important’s accidentally going in there, but it’s always just the spam.
I’ve got an e-mail account that uses Outlook Express through my ISP, but I think I’ve only ever used it once. I much prefer using my Yahoo! – it’s less prone to giving your computer viruses by automatically opening e-mails with sketchy attatchments on 'em.
I have two yahoo accounts and one hotmail account. I have never had a major problem with yahoo. However, I use the hotmail account primarily for business, and I am probably going to terminate my account. I can’t access the damn thing now. I just get a message that the server is too busy, which normally wouldn’t be reason enough to terminate using it - at least it wouldn’t if it didn’t happen on a regular basis. The hotmail account has been acting weird ever since I opened it. I had thought it might be my OS or just my browser, and since I needed to anyway, I upgraded my OS, then got Mozilla instead of Netscape, but I’m still having the same problem. It’s driving me absolutely crazy. I’m really fed up - I think I’d like to get a domain name and Web hosting package with e-mail service.
<panting>Wow. I feel better. Sorry for the rant. MSN is the devil.
My main e-mail has been with sff.net for years. They’re not an ISP; they just provide e-mail, websites, and the premier discussion board for science fiction literature. Excellent spam filtering, and you can use any e-mail client (or their webmail) and keep your address if you find a cheaper ISP.
Plus the address has some status in the science fiction world.