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Comment from Meir Zygman on 2010-02-09

2010-02-09T12:44:39Z

You can use the services of bigfoot.com to redirect your mail. You'll have one permanent email address (name@bigfoot.com). You can change your email provider, update your new email address in bigfoot and get your mail to your new address.

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Comment from Robin Clay on 2009-12-27

2009-12-27T14:36:11Z

Two thoughts, if I may -

1.
Carl G. wrote, December 22, 2009 6:53 PM
"Hotmail is a free (you get what you pay for)"

2.
Treat all e-mails as if they were postcards, i.e. anyone can read them, and may even be able to edit them, before OR after you see them.

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Comment from Norman Rondeau on 2009-12-26

2009-12-27T01:58:09Z

Thanks for the Hotmail answers. Once in a while something in an email either teaches me something I was not aware of or makes me relook my security and behaviour. One thing not mentioned here is that hotmail can also mysteriously loose ALL your email folders in the account. When this happens they will never answer you directly. If you are persistent the might let you know they regret what happened but will also accept no responsibility. The regrets will be in a form letter, not a personal response. I lost a message that was of historical importance that can never be recovered. I now save those mails to files on my computer and back those files up!

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Comment from Charles Tilley on 2009-12-24

2009-12-24T15:39:14Z

I don't understand all of the ado over emails. If they're that important, either make two copies of them (printers costs as little as $30) and store them in separate places, or buy one or two of those flash drives. You can get Kingston ones for around $15 (4GB). I'm not a business person, but I could imagine if I were one, the emails would pile up fast. But I print the important ones and dump the rest. Why is backing up emails such a problem? There's enough work to do in backing up a computer, why complicate things by throwing the emails in? I gave what I feel are two methods of safekeeping emails, start using them.

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Comment from Todd Banks on 2009-12-22

2009-12-23T04:14:11Z

With regard to back up and reliability for free accounts. I use gmail for my main account, 6 years so far. I like Gmail, it is reliable, a great spam filter and it is evolving into a very useful utility for communication and storage. I have had few problems with it in the years I've been using Gmail. Back Up: I have two external hard disks of scanned important documents. But for conviniance I send those docs to gmail in case I am away from my home for easy access. For important business emails or other important email. I forward key email on an automatic filter to go to a yahoo account and to an ulternate gmail account. This way I create a back up without having to remember everytime. Thus I have several Yahoos and several gmail accounts, but only really use one gmail, the others are simply storage. I set a reminder to log into all of my accounts using Google's calander. But to be sure, any important emails are always printed out. Being a gmail user, logging into Yahoo is irritating. The adverts make me nuts, on the other hand, Gmail is so non intrusive, the desktop is plesent and the folder system is great. I do find myself actually clicking on some of the advert feeds on Gmail just because often enough they spark my interest. Again, non intrusive; just there enough, as if being polite. And with that, Leo is right, back up everything important not trusting anyone particular service or devise.

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Comment from Carl G. on 2009-12-22

2009-12-23T02:53:57Z

Can we PLEASE stop seeing Hotmail questions (pretty please!!!)? If people can't figure out WHAT Hotmail is all about by now, is there ANY help for them? Hotmail is a free (you get what you pay for) front for Microsoft to sell ad space - that's all. ;)

Sorry, but it's unlikely that Hotmail questions will stop. There are real people with real problems that need help. That's what I'm all about. I agree that they're often using Hotmail improperly and should be doing something different, but the fact is a large number of questions I get are all Hotmail related. I'd be doing a lot of people a huge disservice if I ignored the tide. I do try to expand the Hotmail questions in to more general purpose questions (i.e. the lessons, including this article's, often apply to "all free email accounts").

23-Dec-2009

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Comment from Kevin Frothingham on 2009-12-22

2009-12-23T00:17:28Z

I have two free e-mail accounts to provide contact info for two specific personal interests. For the e-mail that can make life difficult if lost or misplaced, I've used fastmail.fm for several years. Reliable service. Reasonably priced with several price and service levels.

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Comment from Nigel Broder on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T20:05:22Z

I use Hotmail and email provided by my ISP, both of which I download using Windows Live Mail. I use the freeware edition of MailStore to archive all my email. I then backup the archives created on my local drive to external media.

To quote from the MailStore site:

"MailStore Home enables you to backup all your email messages from multiple applications and accounts into one secure and persistent archive. Lightning-fast search, one-click backup, powerful export - all information from your email is at your fingertips anytime. Never lose important email again!"

Hopefully this will be of use to someone concerned about preserving emails.

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Comment from Ima Scofflaw on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T19:54:59Z

You are far better off dumping all email messages asap. Far more damage has been done by disclosure of old email than by loss of it. i.e. "climategate" Actually I would like to see a free email service that guarantees they don't keep any records, backups, logs, etc. When I dump it daily it can never come back to bite me.

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Comment from Gail Paulics on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T19:46:46Z

This is an interesting problem and answers. I have email with the internet provider that I use and while away on holiday while depending on email for confirmation of trip plans they were upgrading and totally cancelled my email and internet (accidentaly??). So any incoming emails were lost.So much for the paid email servers. And a rule of thumb for me is to never email anything that I would not want the whole world to see.

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Comment from carol howard on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T19:29:00Z

Thanks Leo; I always learn something; am an IT innocent so depend on your goodself for info. Kind regards & best wishes for the holidays.

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Comment from pankaj saini on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T17:01:48Z

Respected Sir,
I really appreciate you. Wow ! It was a great information. Thanks for your kind suggeations to people like us.

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Comment from Reid on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T16:18:31Z

If you use Hotmail, then Microsoft Outlook is a good investment. Install the "Outlook Connector" plug-in, which keeps your local Outlook (.pst) file in sync with your Hotmail account. This way, if something happens to your Hotmail account, you have a local copy which can be uploaded to a new mail host. Note that you do not need to use the connector with Outlook, but it is the nicest option and works inherently with Hotmail.

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Comment from Steve Richard Zimmett on 2009-12-22

2009-12-22T16:15:38Z

Been using Hotmail for years. Works OK, never lost anything. I believe that Leo is correct if your email is for legal purposes, perhaps a domain name to lock your emails in place.

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Comment from Ken B on 2009-12-21

2009-12-21T19:09:21Z

If you're concerned about having to change e-mail addresses if you change Internet providers, there's a simple solution... Get your own domain name, and create an e-mail address with that domain. You are now in control of your e-mail address. Don't like your e-mail/web provider? Change providers, and the domain name (along with e-mail addresses) comes with you.

It's amazing nowadays that I still see business cards with a their own domain name web address and a free yahoo/gmail/hotmail/whatever e-mail address.

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Comment from Mark on 2009-12-20

2009-12-20T20:15:20Z

I have several free mail accounts, but I pay for a premium account for one of my accounts with a free mail provider, GMX.net. Does the fact that I pay for it give me more rotection than the free version of the same account? I have always assumed it would thats why I shell out a few euros evers month. But this causes me to have some doubts. I've always shied away from using the email address which comes from my internet provider as I don't want to lose my address if I change providers.

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Comment from Alex on 2009-12-19

2009-12-20T06:36:53Z

OMG!!!!!
You are kidding, right? This person really asked this question? Oh dear. Oh d..d..d...dear. I do sincerely hope I never do business with this person. If I were ever doing business of a legal nature with anyone and they had a Hotmail (or Gmail, or yahoo Mail) address, I would run, not walk, for the nearest exit.
These e-mail addresses are toys, for convenience only.
I am truly aghast...

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