> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In the interest of being polite, I am investigating Hotmail to
> see if it is
> worth the effort. My fiance used Yahoo mail for 2 years and found
> it clumsy
> and unreliable. I'm not even going to bother with them if
> there's a chance
> I'm going to lose my mail.
I don't depend too much on Yahoo mail, but I'v used it as a backup for years
and haven't seen reliability issues. These days, you can even access it
with a normal e-mail client (Eudora, Outlook, etc.), which makes it far less
clumsy than using the Web interface. When I travel, I like the Web
interface -- when I'm on a longer trip, I'll have Yahoo pull my mail off my
server at home, so I can quickly review the subjects without downloading
everything. IMAP would let me do the same, more or less, but I haven't had
much luck with it.
IIRC, to have access to Yahoo mail via POP and SMTP, you have to accept a
certain amount of their spam, but it's easy to filter out. And their spam
filtering (for others' spam, not their own) seems to work very well.
Nick
