Web Email with Free POP Offline access ?? 30 January 2007 at 1:29PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Broadband & Internet Access 10 replies 525 views

peter999

I want to setup an email account with Free POP Offline access for someone abroad.

Are there any major Web email providers that provide Free POP Offline access through email software like Outlook Express/Outlook ??

You have to pay with Hotmail & Yahoo (Hotmail Plus, Yahoo Mail Plus accounts).

Any other providers that provide Free POP Offline access ??

Thanks
peter999

ossie

Gmail......

kingmonkey

You dont have to pay yahoo to get free pop access. You just have to sign up to recieve some email every week. I think its Yahoo Delivers or something.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/index.html

peter999

kingmonkey wrote:

You dont have to pay yahoo to get free pop access. You just have to sign up to recieve some email every week. I think its Yahoo Delivers or something.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/index.html

That's great, I will investigate.

I have found Yahoo spam filters are the best.

peter999

peter999

ossie wrote:

Gmail......

I forgot about Gmail.

Long time ago I opened some temporary Gmail accounts, but think I was getting lot of spam mail, even though I never used the accounts !!

How do you find spam & spam filtering on Gmail ??

peter999

peter999

peter999 wrote:

I forgot about Gmail.

Long time ago I opened some temporary Gmail accounts, but think I was getting lot of spam mail, even though I never used the accounts !!

How do you find spam & spam filtering on Gmail ??

To anyone with Gmail, how do you find spam & spam filtering on Gmail ??

peter999

ckerrd

Pretty good - the spam box doesn't half get full

peter999

ckerrd wrote:

Pretty good - the spam box doesn't half get full

I want to try & open an account that is not deluged by spam.

I think you're saying the Spam Filtering is good on Gmail.

But do you get a lot of spam when you didn't expect ??

I opened a number of Gmail accounts that I never used.
When I checked back, there was a lot of spam in all of them.

I expect small amounts of spam on accounts I hardly use, but not a mass of it. That's not a good sign for me, as it means spammers are targetting the accounts or getting hold of the Gmail addresses somehow.

peter999

Ps: I know all email accounts will eventually get spam.
I have lot of experience with Hotmail, Yahoo.

Miserable_Sod

I've had yahoo mail on Outlook without going online to my account for ages without any spam and I use googlemail online infrequently and just checked the spam box and it's empty.

I think it depends a lot on what your email addy is. My partner only has initials [email protected] ******** .co.uk and she gets loads of spam with the same provider as my main account (not google or yahoo).

peter999

Miserable_Sod wrote:

I've had yahoo mail on Outlook without going online to my account for ages without any spam and I use googlemail online infrequently and just checked the spam box and it's empty.

I think it depends a lot on what your email addy is. My partner only has initials [email protected] ******** .co.uk and she gets loads of spam with the same provider as my main account (not google or yahoo).

Any suggestions on address format to choose to avoid spam ??

I've just checked 3x Gmail accounts I opened 18 months ago.
Never used these accounts.

-1 account has no spam mail. (eg. [email protected])
-1 account has 60 spam mail. (eg. [email protected])
-1 account has 200 spam mail (eg. [email protected])

peter999

judderman62

Ok my experiences:

Yahoo - great if you want a huge amount of spam about 80% going to your spam box , the other 20% staying in your Inbox (plenty of it sooo obviously spam)

Gmail - Moderate amount of spam (though you do need to keep on top of it) - 100% going into your spam box and NONE in your inbox. I have had a tiny amount go in the spam box that wasn't spam - but litteraly about 2/3 itmes over 12-18 months or more. It does learn too .

If you are looking to use one to deliver to your main email prog , Outlook or similar, then Gmail is frankly perfect.

Easy to set up and because the spam filet is so good all you get in outlook from gmail is the mail you want.

As you doubtless know you can then also send from your gamil address from within Outlook .

This is the setup I have and it is superb.

Good luck with whatever you go for and let us know what you went for and how it has worked out for you.