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I have just started using this and I was wondering what experiences anyone else in MSE land has had?

In theory it looks simple enough - free, no registration etc - but since logging in for the first time yesterday I've not had any new emails when I normally get 50-100 per day.
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  • WilliamO
    WilliamO Posts: 385 Forumite
    Just visited it and must say it looks like a scam website (i.e. unprofessional and just advertising others services). On top of this it begs the question why you are using it? Have you not heard of GMail, Hotmail or Yahoo? That website offers nothing that Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird cannot do for free.

    WilliamO
  • WilliamO wrote: »
    Just visited it and must say it looks like a scam website (i.e. unprofessional and just advertising others services). On top of this it begs the question why you are using it? Have you not heard of GMail, Hotmail or Yahoo? That website offers nothing that Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird cannot do for free.

    WilliamO

    No need to be patronising. I want to use it because I have a well-established .co.uk address that I need regular access to while I'm travelling on business. I have both yahoo and gmail addys but they get spammed.

    I have now checked with a colleague and my host server has been having issues for the last 24 hours which may explain things.
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    £2 Savers Club 2015 #8 £250£200 :j

    Proud to be an OU graduate :j :j

    Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain
  • paulstar
    paulstar Posts: 177 Forumite
    edited 8 November 2012 at 2:44PM
    WilliamO: is that just your opinion that it looks scammy or do you have some reason for suggesting that?
  • WilliamO
    WilliamO Posts: 385 Forumite
    Hi Paulstar,

    No....that's just my opinion on the way it looks and feels. For example: Not a lot of effort has been put into it, to say what it is - something that is supposed to be taking care of your email etc. If that sloppy website is anything to go by, what about the sloppy coding behind the scenes in terms of protection, servers and so on. I certainly wouldn't trust it. It looks like one of those D.I.Y american "seo guru" type of websites that ask for $97.

    WilliamO
  • -TangleFoot-
    -TangleFoot- Posts: 4,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Are you sure you've got the right address? I used to use mail2web for this sort of thing...
  • paulstar
    paulstar Posts: 177 Forumite
    Ah. Tanglefoot, well spotted.

    It's www.mail2web.com that I've been occasionally using for years.

    WilliamO - I agree with you, web2mail.com/ looks a bit iffy. Having looked at their site I'm now running a full virus scan on my machine...
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