Can anyone tell me mailbox quota at their ISP - for comparison?

debitcardmayhem

eneville wrote: »

Usually this happens from a phishing attempt,

Not here

or the details can be sniffed from an insecure wifi link, such as GPRS

nope use a vpn

or even via some physical intrusion in some segment of an ISP's network.

possibly

Normally your POP/IMAP paswords would be the same as your web hosting account at the same place, maybe something new will get added to your web site and it's could be used as URL spam else where...

nope

eneville

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Plus leaving it on the ISP's servers is more prone to attack, as are your contacts.

My point is that leaving the mail on the server permanently is no different to leaving it there for a second if Eve polls your mail box as the mail can be read without you knowing.

S0litaire

Personally mail should never be left on an ISP's mail server.
Get a small machine sitting in the corner to download your emails locally.

OR (and this is my preferred choice)
Get a Google Apps account and set it to check and pick up mail from your ISP automatically.

Then you need never worry about your mailbox filling up as you'll have +7Gb of storage per user for free, or up to 25Gb if you're willing to pay google a fee per user...

usignuolo

Thanks for your offer Ennevile. Will consider it.

About my email. It was originally a Pipex Solo business account of my husbands. It came with 5 email addresses and he allocated one to me. I was employed at the time and had my work email and used this as my home email.

When I became self employed I continued with my pipex email because it used my own name and everyone knew me by that. It had a much better mailbox allocation than I have from Talktalk who basically ripped up that contract when they bought out Opal (as it had become by then) last year. It is not free, it costs around 170 pds annually and my OH has kept it going as he has his website on it and his email addie.

I do maintain a couple of websites for other people but I do not have one of my own as I am not dependent on web advertising for work. So I agree that TalkTalk business as currently set up is not really suitable for freelancers like me.

All I really need is a simple email which I can alias with my own name, with a generous mail box quota on the server and accessible via webmail from anywhere in the world. (I should prefer to have a .dot com or generic email address.)

The magazine I edit is a very small niche market and I very much doubt that anyone would be interested in hijacking our ads or photos. If they did to be honest it would only be a minor inconvenience as they are only in transit and could be resent. I download them as soon as I get home but I do need to refer to them while I am on the road myself. I can't have them delivered into my home mail box directly.

I have set up a Gmail account and can see that the cloud is the way to go. I don't know that I have anything personal on it. The real personal stuff I have I do from home so it never gets onto webmail in the first place. For the present however I should prefer to use gmail as a back up and find another provider who can offer email and webmail with a generous mailbox quota.

Suggestions appreciated.

PS Not quite clear why having my email stored remotely on a gmail server is more secure than remotely on an ISP's server?

asbokid

usignuolo wrote: »

All I really need is a simple email which I can alias with my own name, with a generous mail box quota on the server and accessible via webmail from anywhere in the world. (I should prefer to have a .dot com or generic email address.)

For the present however I should prefer to use gmail as a back up and find another provider who can offer email and webmail with a generous mailbox quota.

If you've already got a domain, then just change the MX record to point to your gmail account (which needs to be linked through google apps to your domain - proving your ownership of the domain, etc..)

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=140034

Google will let you have up to ten email accounts for the same domain for nothing, otherwise if you want more it's $5 a month.

If you haven't already got a domain then a co.uk starts at £2-£3 a year, and a .com is perhaps £5-£10 a year. Probably better to choose a domain registrar who's "partnered" with google. It's quite an extensive list of registrars.

Enterprise_1701C

There is a 7GB limit on Virgin Media.

fluffnutter

Yahoo Mail Beta is unlimited.

John_Gray

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

There is a 7GB limit on Virgin Media.

Presumably because they use the Gmail servers, after assorted horrors and disasters over past years with SquirrelMail and Exchange...

usignuolo

Just wondering....as I am about to buy a new PC for my home network, what would be involved in upgrading it to be a host for my OHs website ? Obviously I would get someone more knowledgeable to set it up for me, but what would I need in terms of hardware and software.? We are connected to the outside world via a Virgin Media broadband cable link. BTW

Hammyman

Only an idiot would use their ISP for email for a business unless you intend staying with the same ISP forever.

Everyone should get an "address for life" from Hotmail, Google, GMX etc then when you change ISP you're not having to email world and dog, tell schools etc that you've changed your email address again.