E-Mail accounts!!!

4 Mar 2004

I have a Lycos email account and have an awful time sending pics from it. I even have problems sometimes just sending emails!!! I know some Providers block others or their attachments, but which are the good ones and which are the worst?
Comments?
Mal
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4 Mar 2004

The ones that work for me for internet email are
- if u sort the spam filters out - i've had a account for nearly 7 years now
- pretty good, very little spam and i've never had a problem sending or receiving files
lycos - yeh - I use that for basic messages ie urls from work etc - seems to take an age for anything else.

4 Mar 2004

I'm a long time user. Note 'New Account' sign up tab on the page at the end of this link.
I've found ok - except you never know when you don't hear back from people if the mail+JPEGs attachments you sent just disappeared into digital smithereens or ended up someplace else redface

. Equally the case that you don't know if some replies with JPEG attachments are failing to reach you confused

:
I'm beginning to find the free account limiting if you're going to be sending and rcvg JPEGs - as you will if you run an active account for trying to have swinging times :shock:
The standard, free, account allows for:-
2MB of e-mail storage
1MB attachment limit
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Trouble is, if you pay for an account they have the account linked to your credit card details mad

and you might not like that (I don't, for one).

4 Mar 2004

Yeah, are pretty good, I've had various accounts over the years and never had a huge problem, except when I couldn't send to any AOL addresses, but that seems sorted now. I also use , but often can't get on as the servers get very busy very quickly. I did try Excite once but gave it up as a bad job.

4 Mar 2004

For me i used freeserve, , and , all work fine.
TS

4 Mar 2004

I use it offers 6mb of free storage before you have to pay for additional.
I have not encountered the problem Blue refers to about server availability but I am not a prolific user.
is web based not PC based and has successfuly kept all e-mail viruses off my PC thus far .Touch wood!

5 Mar 2004

Mal,
I was getting tired of the extraneous, spam like, lines that lycos was appending to the end of my emails. I'm now with For 12 quid I got a domain registered for 2 years and an email account that I can use either with outlook, or via a web interface. I've had it about 3 months now and so far I'm very impressed.
Rgds, SB.