What free email provider do you recommend to your members? (managing bounced email)

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  • Alfa1
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 4165
    • 3.8.x

    Computer Chat What free email provider do you recommend to your members? (managing bounced email)

    When your members use email providers that have limitations, expire quickly or are useless at sending bounced email notifications, this causes problems for your board. Members frequently ask me what free email provider they should use, but I am not sure.

    What would you recommend?
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  • Joe Gronlund
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2001
    • 5789
    • 3.8.x

    #2
    *!*@me.com : D , Gmail , live.com , live.co.uk , hotmail.com Most are POP3 & IMAP
    MCSE, MVP, CCIE
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    • Alfa1
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2005
      • 4165
      • 3.8.x

      #3
      hotmail/live are a nuisance when it comes to processing bounced mail, as they send the SMTP diagnostic codes deep within the attachments. And security has been an issue with hotmail accounts in the past.
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      • Mike Anime
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2004
        • 1841
        • 3.7.x

        #4
        g mail is the best IMHO.

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        • Alfa1
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2005
          • 4165
          • 3.8.x

          #5
          How about gmail's security? Can gmail accounts get hacked easily? Would you use a gmail account for your super-administrator forum account or would you let your staff use gmail?
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          • beishe8
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2005
            • 6782
            • 4.2.X

            #6
            Originally posted by Alfa1
            Would you use a gmail account for your super-administrator forum account
            No way.


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            • Alfa1
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2005
              • 4165
              • 3.8.x

              #7
              Originally posted by beishe8
              No way.
              Could you explain why you wouldn't? Are there specific security issues in gmail that you worry about or is it just that there will always be many hackers whipping up exploits for large email providers?
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              • beishe8
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2005
                • 6782
                • 4.2.X

                #8
                Originally posted by Alfa1
                Could you explain why you wouldn't? Are there specific security issues in gmail that you worry about or is it just that there will always be many hackers whipping up exploits for large email providers?
                #1 I don't trust them from the very beginning.
                Why not? I don't like their intrusive searches in the emails.
                #2 Who are "usually" super-administrators? The site-forum owners.
                Their email address should be [email protected],[email protected],etc.


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                • lim (x³-7x²) = ∞
                  Senior Member
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 634
                  • 3.0.0 Gamma

                  #9
                  you can use google apps to make mailbox on your own @domain.com hosted by google
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                  • Joe Gronlund
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2001
                    • 5789
                    • 3.8.x

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Alfa1
                    hotmail/live are a nuisance when it comes to processing bounced mail, as they send the SMTP diagnostic codes deep within the attachments. And security has been an issue with hotmail accounts in the past.

                    Are you referring to Codes 50/550/554 errors for RFC 2034? They could simply be over quota.. These can also occur if your server is not sending out email before the delay..

                    There is no free email that is going to solve this, i would choose G-Mail for less returns, be sure to investigate the SMTP errors, as the problem could lay at your server level...
                    MCSE, MVP, CCIE
                    Microsoft Beta Team

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                    • Dream
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2001
                      • 1898
                      • 3.6.x

                      #11
                      Never had problems suggesting Gmail, worst problem I can expect is pointing the user to the Spam folder.
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                      • Dream
                        Senior Member
                        • Mar 2001
                        • 1898
                        • 3.6.x

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Alfa1
                        How about gmail's security? Can gmail accounts get hacked easily? Would you use a gmail account for your super-administrator forum account or would you let your staff use gmail?
                        I would use, Gmail defaults now to HTTPS I believe, and I imagine the Google servers security would be better than my own.
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