Are free email services worth it?

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Thank you very much. Really it's an excellent informative article. I think it is rare in today's web market.

My account in hotmail has been reactivated, since then I can't access to my old messages, can I recover them?

No. That's this article: http://ask-leo.com/messages_deleted_on_hotmail_can_i_get_them_back_somehow.html

I currently and routinely use Gmail with Firefox and remove the spam. Every 2 or 3 days I download the mail into IE (gmail let you do) and so the REAL mail is stored in my PC even when no internet connection is available. By the way I also use an alias address supplied by the IEEE so that my address is always the same in these years: before using Gmail the mail was routed to other free addresses, a couple of which disappeared or became unavailable overnight (C4com and CTOnet, just for examples). Nothing is perfect but now I am relatively satified and unworried.
Umberto

please show the posting date of when the article was created, so people can easily see if the information is current or out of date.

Gmail's spam filter is 10x better than hotmail's. Hardly any spam actually gets through to me

Hi I was told that you can recovers ur password on hotmail but sending and email too
recover_pswd@hotmail.com now I have been looking for it all over hotmail I am thinking maybe this is a hoax as the person I got it from said to put my currrent password down for the account I am sending it from. Is this a hoax or does it have any truth to it?

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It is a hoax.

Leo
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I agree with you completely re free email accounts. For 6 years I dutifully paid for my AOL each month but also never, ever had a problem. The minute I switched to their free AOL, I had all sorts of problems, not related to my high speed internet provider, and the AOL people got plain ugly about the whole thing and would not answer a question even when the problem originated in their server. I am desperate for a new email account with someone else.

Most free emails all work the same. But so far Gmail helps rid my spam mail best.

If anyone is in need of a free email account that does not have intrusive ads, check out http://mail.tripdiscussion.com . You can get a free email account there without ads. Has virus protection, spam blocking tools, and much more. It is great for someone who just wants a free simple reliable email account.

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