E-Mail question

Ron61 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 08:09 AM

I am growing tired of all the advertisements that Yahoo keeps putting into my e-mail program. Now I have to click 3 to 5 times just to get through the dam things to read an e-mail. Are any of you using any e-mail program that you would recommend? I did a search and found so many that I am not sure which ones would work best. Incredi Mail looks more like a gimmicky program than anything serious and I don't need a program that has loads of animations and stuff, just one that does a good job of filtering out spam, detects viruses, which Yahoo does well, and is easy to use.

Ron

fsstnotch · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 08:24 AM

My gmail works great. And the only "spam" I get is from companies that I've ordered stuff through. I don't ever even have anything in my spam box! My hotmail account on the other hand.. I pretty much deserted it as it gets a full page of spam in a day!

Ron61 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 08:46 AM

Thanks, that is one of the ones that I have been looking at.

Ron

fsstnotch · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 09:08 AM

Oddly as it may sound... I get more "bigger peepee" emails in my government work email at my .mil address than I do at gmail??? odd! haha I swear I've never requested info!

But all my coworkers get the same emails. Wierd! maybe its a google scam! haha

imagine2frolic · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 11:20 AM

Ron, My yahoo throws all the spam, and everything else into my bulk folder. I use to read through the bulk, but the only thing that was in there was garbage. Now I just empty it without looking.

trularin · #6 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 02:59 PM

Ron, I have Yahoo and I don't get what you are talking about.

I mean, I get spam, but it is filtered to a folder I delete every day or two.

Do you have your filter off??

Ron61 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-07-2007, 04:40 AM

I am using the Yahoo mail program that SBC uses and I am not talking about Spam. I also have my bulk folder option set to just delete it and not save it. I am just ticked off at the Advertisements that Yahoo is sticking in everything and I called SBC and they said they could not make them take them out. And now they are changing the home page as the old one worked and of course the new one is all screwed up. At first Yahoo just put the dam adds on the home page and now they are in every folder in my mail program, and there is no way to get rid of them. Yahoo added them right to their mail program on their server and I am tired of this crap. I may just drop of the Internet completely as I no longer have any pressing need to be on it. I never get any Spam, but this continual screwing with the home page and adding more adds is getting ridiculous, plus now I get errors when it loads and they don't know what to do. When I told them go back to the old one they really go ticked. I have just never liked Yahoo much and wish SBC would get their own servers but that isn't going to happen.

Ron

wtm442 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-07-2007, 05:09 AM

I have Comcast Internet service along with cable TV. So I just use Outlook Express. All the e-mail that goes to my Comcast account automatically gets downloaded to my computer every 5 minutes. No problems, no pop-up or embedded ads, no crap, great speed, no dial-up, no Yahoo stuff, no AOL crap, no problems.

I can also access any new e-mail when I go on vacation from the Comcast web site, as long as I turn off my computer (or at least the Internet access)at home.

Ron61 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-07-2007, 06:04 AM

I have thought about setting up outlook express as my e-mail but have just not done it. I can access my account from any location easily, but am just tired of Yahoo using my e-mail program as a dam bulletin board. They have stuck banner adds in every folder just like the ones Brent has on here except here I don't have to wade through them by clicking on links to get to a forum. I don't have cable TV, and SBC was the only DSL ISP available here when I got it. I am not sure if Verison has started offering it up here or not, but I just hate to change everything as I have so many people that have my e-mail address I would sure miss some of them if I change it. I am not sure if I could get the Yahoo mail program to download my e-mail like yours does as they want to be sure you see all of those dam adds.

Ron

wtm442 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-07-2007, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Ron61

.... but I just hate to change everything as I have so many people that have my e-mail address I would sure miss some of them if I change it. Ron

Do not worry. My e-mail address has changed about 5 times. Not the WTM442 part, but the company name after the @ sign. Just send an e-mail to your complete address book after the change. If your Yahoo account has an auto answer feature like "Outlook", you could always set that for the last month to answer everyone that your address has changed. I wish Outlook Express had that feature. Then close the Yahoo account a couple of months down the road.

You said you do not have cable TV. My my, are you living in the dark ages. I got it about 200 years ago, cuz the "rabbit ears" reception is terrible where I live. I'm on the ocean side of a hill, and all the towers are inland.

Ron61 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-07-2007, 07:54 AM

Warren,

I dumped the cable TV about 8 years ago because of monthly increases in rates to cover more and more dam pay for view channels and went to the satellite system. Costs less and I get over 500 channels. Of course I don't even begin to watch many of them, just the ones that I like. I think they even have the adult channels listed way up in the 900 range or somewhere like that. The cable company here won't sell their cable Internet connection unless you buy the TV package too. But the people around me that are on cable and have the Internet with them seem to have more problems and to me it seems slower and I sure don't have the fastest DSL there is. But up here they have things everywhere else years before we get it.
As for rabbit ears, they never worked around here. We have Jack rabbits and their ears just don't work well as receivers.

Ron

trularin · #12 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 09:40 AM

Ron watches Russian female wrestling late at night.

Ron61 · #13 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 09:44 AM

Tru,

That comes on early in the morning.

Ron