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Biomechanoid

<div class="IPBDescription">Anti-mail?!?!?!? hotmail screwed up</div>I suppose that 99% of the people here get at LEAST 1 spam e-mail every day, so I thought it a bit odd, when after the past 5 days I hadn't received a single e-mail. Nothing from people I knew, no e-mails proclaiming a zero interest mortgage, none of the "enhancers" for my maleness, nor a single adult advertisement. absolutely NOTHING.

eh... maybe I've gotten lucky the past few days, right? wrong.

my bud calls me, asking if I got a recent e-mail about internships, one of which looked pretty dope (3 months, $14,000 hell yea). Nope. didn't get it... but I'm on the e-mail list...

I try sending myself an e-mail from a dummy account that I just setup, and... the message comes back saying it was undeliverable... WTF?

A quick connect to hotmail tech support reveals.... "all is well and working with your account, you shouldn't have any problems." I was wondering if it was perhaps my filter settings, yet I hadn't touched those in over a year...

A quick check reveals... yes. my filter settings HAD been changed. they shunt all e-mails to a junkmail folder unless its allow list and immediately deletes the ones in the junkmila folders, but I don't have an allow list...

WTF? I NEVER used this feature before, so why would it be activated. never gave out my passwords to my account, yet somehow the settings were changed, and not by me. Grrrrr. this REALLY pisses me off. I missed at least one important e-mail that I know of, and possibly more.  <!--emo&:angry:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':angry:'><!--endemo-->

/me is seriously thinking of switching to a different free e-mail provider

<b>Grrrrrrrrrrrrr</b>

Evil_Sonic_Death_Monkey

haha, sux to b u. hehe



DIE HOTMAIL!!!

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Kadreal

i personaly use softhome.net e-mail, they use a pop server that allows me to use there e-mail services thourgh outlook express or via there website so i cna finally check my mail away form home! woot

Ramses

I use also hotmail and never had any problems... Sure, i get some spam but the spam-filter works fine for me... The only problem is that I can only use MS-Outlook when i don't want web-based stuff, all other mail-programms don't work with hotmail...
Also i have a seperate email for official/serious things... you can't give everyone the dersohndeslichtes @ hotmail.com-adress, doesn't make a good impression sometimes <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

TychoCelchuuu

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Scythe

I've found subdimension to be an excellent free e-mail provider.

Though recently their server went down for a couple weeks without warning but they send a very apologetic letter blaming their ISP.

I found it on this <a href="http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_pop.htm" target="_blank">site</a> of free POP3 mail providers. There are a few others there that might be worth looking at. Subdimension was quick and easy to set up and I check it using Outlook Express for web-free email. Not too bad on the spam front too, anything that gets through usually ends up straight into my trash folder anyway due to my selection of filters.

--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>

Tzarcon

heh, I stopped using Hotmail years ago because it was overall crappy and annoying in every possible way (I know it isnt as crappy anymore, but I still use it as a dummy account and get over 200 spam emails a day). Right now I use www.gmx.net, it used to be available in english but they removed it, and everyone already knew my adress, so I was forced to learn some german. Oh well, its still good