Hi Alan, Your options are endless - depending on what you actually want.
Rob & Ronni are coming from the approach of "let's see if we can fix the problem" ie look at how you are managing your Telsta email accounts to see if the problem can be fixed. As we all know, Ronni is a whiz at ferreting out all sorts of problems - so work with her if you want to do this. However your response suggests that you have no real interest in addressing the Telstra problem and just want to take Telstra out of the equation and set-up some alternative email accounts? I'm sure many of us can sympathise with the difficulties of dealing with Telstra - They lost my internet account many ears ago (to Internode) and I recently moved my landline to Internode also. However I still have my mobile with Telstra (for the country coverage) and must admit that, in more recent dealings, their service seems much improved. I also have a legacy Bigpond email account, which continues to work without problems, and which Telstra keeps alive, free of charge - which, I think, is pretty generous of them. If you want/need to move away from Telstra and find a new mail provider - here are a few things you might want to consider: 1. Your ISP will, no doubt, offer you a number of email accounts as part of your internet package - of course if your ISP is Telstra this is no help unless you also want to change ISP. 2. Email accounts with your ISP are generally lost if/when you change ISP providers - this tends to keep many people "locked in" to their ISP to avoid the hassle of changing email addresses. 3. Free email accounts like Hotmail (very popular in the past) or Gmail (more popular now) have their own pros & cons - which Google will find plenty of opinion on! My observation is that if you are not paying for the product then you ARE the product - think why Google is worth billions of dollars! 4. One way of having a number of email accounts which are "yours" is to register your own domain and then set-up separate email accounts eg: > * [email protected] > * [email protected] > * [email protected] 5. Using your own domain requires a certain amount of IT nous (though not that much!) and lets you use and change different ISPs without disruption to your email accounts. Several WAMUG members (including me) use this approach. At the end of the day there is no "best" solution - just one which meets your particular circumstances, needs and preferences. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 15/3/17 10:45 AM, Alan Fenton at [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > The accounts are all Telstra. Telstra is at fault. I want to get an email > account that is not with Telstra or any other phone company. > So that is why I was suggested Gmail and Hotmail. > From Alan. > >> On 15 Mar 2017, at 10:38 am, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Who are your accounts with, and do they use IMAP or POP? Without this >> information Ronni won't be able to solve your problem.. :-) >> Rob >> >> >> On 15/3/17 10:16 am, Alan Fenton wrote: >>> Hello. >>> Telstra lost 5 email accounts Monday when I updated my mobile hotspot modem >>> and added to my Telstra account. >>> Tuesday night I got back 4 accounts. >>> Today rang telstra to get last account. Waiting for return call. >>> I have this problem when I update telstra hardware due I think to having >>> Bigpond and Telstra faulty links between my account. >>> A person at Telstra shop in Armadale suggested I get a Gmail or Hotmail >>> account. >>> Any suggestions? >>> From Alan.
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