A secure e-mail address

Gintotmelinda

Hi all

I have popped over from the Oldstyle board for a bit of advice if you would be so good.

I use a yahoo e-mail address and recently went on a Professional and Executive jobseeking workshop (I am a tutor assessor) where the tutor said that if you send out a job application or CV using yahoo or hotmail etc it is likely to go straight into the prospective employer's spam folder.

So please can you advise how do I get a more suitable e-mail address? My internet provider is Sky.

Thanks

Gintot

aerostar

GMX.com is one that may not be known to prospective employers

http://www.gmx.com/

or Sky have e-mail

http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/broadband/email-and-tools/your-sky-email-account/index.html

Gintotmelinda

Thanks aerostar.

Gintot

penrhyn

Whats wrong with your gintotmelinda@sky.com email address?

Gintotmelinda

Hi Penrhyn do I have that ? Probably not good for use with employers though.

Gintot

Anubis_2

If you really want a professional email address then you could purchase a domain name. No need though, any but a free email address should work. It may not prevent it hitting their spam filter though, it is not foolproof in that respect.

sillygoose

Yahoo also do @rocketmail.com addresses which are not commonly seen so the employer may very well not know it isn't your domain or ISP.

http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/

penrhyn

Gintotmelinda wrote: »

Hi Penrhyn do I have that ? Probably not good for use with employers though.

Gintot

http://www.sky.com/services/email/

Certainly better than the likes of Hotmail or Yahoo, or there is always gmail which is what sky email is anyway.

LincolnshireYokel

Hushmail, secure web email system

https://www.hushmail.com

scottishblondie

Personally I always use Gmail for that sort of thing.

esuhl

Why not buy yourself a domain name? You can get a .co.uk one for about £3 a year. Then you can set it up to forward the messages to whatever email account you like. And you can tell your email client to set the "from" field to be an email address at your new domain.

So, effectively you can continue using your free email account, but other people will "see" your email as coming from an address at your new domain name, and they will reply to that address, not knowing that the message then ends up in your Hotmail (or whatever) inbox...