Email recommendations

[right-then-petal]

Hmm Not Had Any Emails For A While Now

When I Checked It Ask Me To Sign In Which I Did Several Times, It Turns Out That Microsoft Outlook

Has Retired

Anyone Got Any recommenations For A New One Bearing In Mind I Never Done An Email Thingy Before.

Thank You

[cookiecookuk]

we wend to windows live mail when outlook finished and have had no problems with it,

 I also have a yahoo one for ebay again no problems

[cee-dee]

It seems all things MS are a bit up in the air?:-

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2016/jun/02/microsoft-killing-windows-live-mail-what-...

[023mjc]

Outlook has retired ???  I'm still getting emails - 3 yesterday and 2 today.

[oxieman]

Hi Petal,

Try Thunderbird - Free Email Manager - a Free Alternative for Microsoft Outlook.

Can be a little difficult to configure - A man of your calibrrr, no sweat 

A few youtubes should help!

Oxie...

[right-then-petal]

Thanks Everybody For The Info, I'll Have A Look At All Of Them And Decide In A Bit.

Never Had To Do This Before

[baybizz]

@ petal: I had to change my email host when my Freeserve service was closed down by EE/BT. I opened an account with Mail.com, which I find excellent. You can have up to ten diffferent email identities on one free @mail.com account. Mail.com also has a lot of different domain names which you can use instead of mail.com, if that is useful to you e.g. @doctor.com, @teacher.com, @post.com etc.  Note that it is a webmail service only i.e. you cannot use an email program like Thunderbird to collect emails remotely - you have to log in to the mail.com website to collect your emails.  This suits me, because it means I can easily access my emails from any computer anywhere. 

https://www.mail.com/email/#.2068504-stage-simplebody1-1

https://www.mail.com/mail/#.1258-header-nav1-1

[right-then-petal]

Thank You I'll Look At That One Too, I Had Messenger At One Time But That Went When PC  Broke Down

[al**bear]

I use Thunderbird on my PC as my email client

I also use the online mail service - www.mail.com -  you can get endless mail address to use on there

[right-then-petal]

Thanks AL

         hmm am i right in thinking i can have any name before and after the @

[**bustysinclaire**]

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@right-then-petal wrote:

Thanks AL

         hmm am i right in thinking i can have any name before and after the @

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@Before the @ yes as long as the name isn't already being used,. You can add numbers after it if you definitely ant a specific name.

@After the @ it has to be the name for whatever your service provider uses xx

[baybizz]

@ Petal: Busty's comments are correct. A tip to try if your chosen name (before the @) has been taken: try it with a .net or .fin or .org or .post etc. after the name you want - chances are it will be available. For example, if petal@mail.com is not available, try petal.net@mail.com. I have used this work around to get a couple of address names I wanted - it looks neater and more "professional" than just putting numbers after a name.

[right-then-petal]

Thank You Both I'll Remember  Thanks xx

[al**bear]

When you go into settings -  you can find a lot more than mail.com

go into settings --> Alias addresses --> create alias

Think theres about 100 variants you can pick to place after the @  - after you've set up your original addy - (engineer.com  - contractor.com - auctioneer.net -- just a few examples)

But @mail.com  is useful, as every site I've visited accepts it -  not all sites accept @Yahoo or @Hotmail  etc  - as a 'real' email address

[right-then-petal]

Thanks AL, I'll Start A Bit Later Today

[right-then-petal]

Sadly i'v managed to go wrong,

 i went with mail.com filled it all in and was excepted and they sent a email for me to confirm

so i went to my envelope and clicked it and got my old email thing which is retired

wheres the envelope for mail.com please

[**bustysinclaire**]

Are you using windows 10 petal.

If so I think you just have to go into your envelope and with your new email address you have just set up you add it as an account xxx

[right-then-petal]

afraid not, windows 7 ultimate

[**bustysinclaire**]

Sorry petal I don't think I can help then.

I have just gone from Windows vista to windows 10 xxx

I'll have a goodle though and see if I can come up with anything xx

[right-then-petal]

ok thanks x