I once had an email account with an ISP and it had spam within 2 hours of being created. I hadn't even used it yet. They (Frontier) swore they didn't give out (sell) addresses. I access Gmail as pop3 in my GroupWise client and as imap on the Blackberry so Thunderbird should work fine. You have to enable pop or imap in the gmail settings. Don
>>> "Tim Ferguson" <t...@ccs135.com> 9/7/2010 7:44 PM >>> Well, I do have a gmail account, a hotmail account and a yahoo account, does that "count"? (they all forward to the AT&T account, or did) I've been referring people to the gmail account for a long time and will be dropping the AT&T account, just thought I'd check first. I guess I'm old-fashioned, but I still prefer having an email client like Thunderbird versus having to login to web mail. Thanks to everyone for all the input, Tim Tim Ferguson Director of Technology Centralia City Schools Centralia, Illinois 62801 618-532-1907, Ext. 1030 >>> Chris Franzen <chrisfran...@nokomis.k12.il.us> 9/7/2010 3:45 PM >>> Yeah avoid ISP e-mails at all costs, gmail and the other 2 do it 100X better. Chris Franzen Technology Coordinator Nokomis School District 511 Oberle St. Nokomis, IL 62075 On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Aaron Hackney <aa...@aaronhackney.com> wrote: +1 with Bob. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bob Schmidt <bschm...@winfield34.org> wrote: > I do have at&t but on don't use the at&t email. I've learned LONG ago not > to use ISP email services. I set up the free google apps system on a domain > and my wife and i use that. gmail does a great job at filtering. > >>>> "Tim Ferguson" <t...@ccs135.com> 9/7/2010 2:18 PM >>> > > Just wondering how many on the list may have AT&T DSL at home? And, if so, > have started receiving lots of e-mail over the last month or so in regard > to winning the lottery, inheriting millions, etc., that you hadn't been > receiving in the past? Probably get five to ten minimum per day now and, > when contacting AT&T they indicated it was my job to contact the offending > domain/mail server and also offered instructions on how to check the mail > headers, etc., to see where they came from although I've done that for years > for our own people and attempted to block what I can through our own > AV/Anti-Spam software. Probably was started by inappropriately clicking > something that triggered it (not me), but wanted to check before I changed > e-mail addresses. Or is there some software, preferably free or cheaper, > that can be used at home for mail "filtering"? > > Thanks for any ideas or suggestions! > > Tim > > > > Tim Ferguson > Director of Technology > Centralia City Schools > Centralia, Illinois 62801 > 618-532-1907, Ext. 1030 > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > -- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Dr. Howard Thurman ****************************** Aaron Keith Hackney aa...@aaronkeithstudios.com Cell 210.325.2196 ****************************** | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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