E-mails, is it possible.....

Tiexen

Cornucopia wrote: »

To get domain hosting with unlimited email addresses (even if they are re-directs) may not be that cheap an option.

For just a redirected e-mail service:


[EMAIL="MSE@terrysdelight.co.uk"]MSE@terrysdelight.co.uk[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="Sky@terrysdelight.co.uk"]Sky@terrysdelight.co.uk[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="BT@terrysdelight.co.uk............etc"]BT@terrysdelight.co.uk............etc[/EMAIL], etc,

feeding into your Yahoo mail around £3 a year (Heart Internet)

tom15387202

Or a temp email address that expires

http://www.guerillamail.org/

yangptangkipperbang

Cornucopia wrote: »

To get domain hosting with unlimited email addresses (even if they are re-directs) may not be that cheap an option.

Don't get confused with email boxes and addresses. You may be limited to a number of mailboxes - I only have 1000 , but you can have as many addresses you want. Only a small number of my boxes have full virus scanning etc, but I only use a handful for odd specific addresses.
I have a catch-all mailbox which the vast majority of my mail goes to - regardless of the actual address being used; as long as it ends @mydomain.co.uk it will go there - unless I block it.
If I set up a mail box with a specific email address: special@mydomain.co.uk then anything with that address goes to that mail box and not the catch-all account which is what my email client (Opera) is set up to display.

curedham

I found that GMail has the best spam filter. I used to not be able to use my email (hosted on its own domain), it was very bad I was thinking of closing that domain out and get a new one.

GMail is a Godsend for this stuff, if you're using Yahoo Mail and not happy with its spam filter, you can easily read your Yahoo Mail from GMail. You can even set GMail so when it send email it looks like it comes from GMail rather than Yahoo Mail.

Give it a go, I'm a big fan of GMail. It has great security features too.

Terrysdelight

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

Get your own domain. Give everyone you deal with a different email address, eg:

MSE@terrysdelight.co.uk
Sky@terrysdelight.co.uk
[email]BT@terrysdelight.co.uk............etc[/email], etc,

You can then block any email from people you don't want to hear from.
If a "good" email address is hacked by spammers you just block it and tell that person you now have a new email address, eg:- MSE2@terrysdelight.co.uk

I'm totally confused now! My email is getting me down. Ymail only have 100 filters.

On a slightly different level, I have just started up a limited company and I would like an email address with my company name in it. Is this what you call a 'domain'.

Many thanks

Stooby2

I use Microsoft Outlook that helpfully puts spam messages in a Spam folder for me and identifies most that are. Any that aren't I just right click and and to the "block sender" list. Then I just click on the Spam folder and empty it in one go.

I also use a Yahoo address for signing up for stuff and keep my main email address for friends and family etc.

Terrysdelight

Stooby2 wrote: »

I use Microsoft Outlook that helpfully puts spam messages in a Spam folder for me and identifies most that are. Any that aren't I just right click and and to the "block sender" list. Then I just click on the Spam folder and empty it in one go.

I also use a Yahoo address for signing up for stuff and keep my main email address for friends and family etc.

That makes sense to have an email for signing up for stuff. I guess thats where all the spam starts in the first place.

Microsoft Outlook isn't an email provider is it? I thought it was just a piece of software that helps you manage your emails?

mttylad

Ditch the sky email, use a gmail account instead.

Forward your sky mail to your gmail account.

Go on from there.

tronator

Stooby2 wrote: »

I use Microsoft Outlook that helpfully puts spam messages in a Spam folder for me and identifies most that are. Any that aren't I just right click and and to the "block sender" list. Then I just click on the Spam folder and empty it in one go.

The thing is, that you usually don't get spam from the same sender twice. So that's a quite useless function for fighting SPAM...

Terrysdelight

tronator wrote: »

The thing is, that you usually don't get spam from the same sender twice. So that's a quite useless function for fighting SPAM...

That's true. A huge amount of the spam I get is because of an order I made on behalf of my elderly uncle. It was a 'gentlemens' tablet - blue in colour! All of the emails contain completely different email addresses. But quite often they have 'inappropriate' wording, so I've got filters set up with these blooming words so that they go into trash.

How I wish I didn't place that order!!