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Best email for filtering out spam ??

Jenny105 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:40:47 GMT

My present main email has been in use for about 20years. Hotmail.com.

Recently Ive had increased spam , freezing , important emails placed in the delete box without ever appearing in my inbox. The last straw was this am when an email mentioned the death of a friend. According to its properties it was spam.

So - is there a free email that has good filtering, is well protected, allows personal filters and has a good record, along with customer service (- not telephone service.)

Or a low cost provider.

Thanks

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

MI5 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:54:28 GMT

I have used gmail for years and find it excellent in all aspects.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:15:43 GMT

Gmail is top of the tree less you have mainly iPhone & Mac's which it doesn't like.

It's free & does everything you'd want and lots you don't ; so can be a bit confusing at first, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a spam message on any of my three Gmail accounts. Even in the spam folder. There are ads but they appear as emails and are unobtrusive. The systems in place for auto categorising, labeling + filtering & integration with Google Calendar, Maps & Drive is spectacular. Security of your account is state of the art, with dual factor verification, and so on.

The only niggle I have is that the mobile gmail apps are (somewhat) lower featured and occasional you have to go on desktop to change (some) settings.

Sadly outlook.com is second best of the free but I hardly use it any more - the upsides are integration with Windows 10 and Office - the downsides many.

In terms of general security - it's getting to the stage where individuals should no longer commit any sensitive financial or confidential information to email. Even if your end is secure the other end probably isn't.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Jenny105 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:25:43 GMT

Hi M15 nice to hear from you, My nursing duties are over and C is bouncing about everywhere.!

Now why did I suspect you were goona say gmail.

I may have to swallow my principles for reasons of mental health !! Google is something I avoid at all costs for ethical and world monetary good.

Alright as its you I'll have a look at the gmail address i had to acquire when takin out my first smartphone. Its not been used but I'll take a look.

In return take a look at Duck DuckGo. chicken Searching seems brill. just as good as IE or Google and any other for that matter::

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Jenny105 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:30:07 GMT

Thanks for the details. As Ive said to M15 I may have to swallow my scruples for sake of my mental health.
How safe is Whats App? I know that's google and have swallowed my pride and is a good way for a partial hearing person to make contacts and converse. I'm home based hardly use anything on the go.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

MI5 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:30:24 GMT

Hi Jenny, yes I do use duck duck myself sometimes too but my life revolves around google as you know, lol

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:53:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Gmail is top of the tree less you have mainly iPhone & Mac's which it doesn't like.

It's free & does everything you'd want and lots you don't ; so can be a bit confusing at first, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a spam message on any of my three Gmail accounts. Even in the spam folder. There are ads but they appear as emails and are unobtrusive. The systems in place for auto categorising, labeling + filtering & integration with Google Calendar, Maps & Drive is spectacular. Security of your account is state of the art, with dual factor verification, and so on.

The only niggle I have is that the mobile gmail apps are (somewhat) lower featured and occasional you have to go on desktop to change (some) settings.

Sadly outlook.com is second best of the free but I hardly use it any more - the upsides are integration with Windows 10 and Office - the downsides many.

In terms of general security - it's getting to the stage where individuals should no longer commit any sensitive financial or confidential information to email. Even if your end is secure the other end probably isn't.

Gmail works perfectly fine on my iPhone 7 Plus & on my old iPads

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Marjo — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:55:12 GMT

Let us know if you make any progress with this @Jenny105. Like @MI5 I also use gmail and have found it great. Easy to filter out spam and organise different types of emails by setting up "labels" for different categories of emails.

I have an iPhone and Gmail is working fine actually, what problems did you have @Anonymous?

Edit: @Anonymous we posted at the same time I also have iPhone 7+. It's shiny black, not matte. I can see loads of fingerprints on it whenever it's not in its case. lol

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

MI5 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:55:09 GMT

Works fine for me on my iPhone too

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:22:15 GMT

Gmail works best on Chrome, Chromium and Android with Google drive ; much like Word works best on Windows with One Drive; and iTunes works best on IOS with the Apple Cloud.

Itunes works fine on Windows but not nearly as well as on an iPhone on iOS or MacOS. Word for Android works fine but not as well as Word for Windows.

How safe is Whats App? @Anonymous Depends what you use it for, swapping pictures and cheap phone calls and messages - it's fine - but I wouldn't be using it to transfer sensitive data or transacting confidential business deals .😨

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

MI5 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:36:07 GMT

Strangely I never have any problems with any programmes on any platform (and I use them all) but anyway, regarding WhatsApp, with end to end encryption enabled, it's just about as safe as you can get.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:12:11 GMT

Well I suppose it's horses for courses but trying to run iTunes on Windows 2003 Server to load up a new iPod was fairly challenging. And trying to manage album art on iTunes on later Windows versions even worse.

Not that I think Windows is all that. Till 10, only W2K03 Server & XP 2 were worth a candle. 🎂

And on balance I like to be able to decide how to configure and set up my kit, how I like; and if I want to use stuff from outside the ecosystem then that's up to me. In the words of the latest Android slogan :

Be Together, Not the Same!✊

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Cleoriff — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:25:23 GMT

I had to change to Gmail when emails from this forum seemed to have a problem with my btinternet address.

On my phone I have Gmail and Bt internet emails coming in, both without spam.

On my Windows PC, running Firefox, I have Outlook with 2 accounts one for Gmail and the other for Btinternet Again, all without spam.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

pgn — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:05:44 GMT

Tesco.net are closing their free e-mail, so that leaves me with, guess what? Gmail. Unlike the others above, not on an iPhone though.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Cleoriff — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:14:06 GMT

I'm not on an iPhone either..... lol

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jonsie — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:47:30 GMT

Gmail all the way for me and I'm at a loss as to why WhatsApp with end to end encryption could in any way seem unsafe. Unless you are thinking about the Facebook connection?

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:38:55 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
Gmail all the way for me and I'm at a loss as to why WhatsApp with end to end encryption could in any way seem unsafe. Unless you are thinking about the Facebook connection?

I don't think WhatsApp are in the business of selling off people's data - but that's not why it's not secure.

It may well be un-hackable while messages are being transmitted but you have no way of knowing that the person or people at the other end are being as secure as you'd expect or worse have themselves been victims of phone cloning or id theft. This is worse if you post regularly to a whatsapp group.

Before we throw around 'as secure as it it gets' - let's ask a few questions.

Has the person you are chatting to set up phone encryption / fingerprint or pin password and 'find my phone' ?

Has the person you are chatting to set up two step verification for their number on WhatsApp to prevent it being used to set up a bogus WhatsApp account?

What is our relationship to WhatsApp - what redress do we have if they don't prevent someone from impersonating a friend and causing us harm or damage?

If we feel that confident about the security of WhatsApp why don't we ask our banks to let us communicate with them through it?

I mean seriously banks and lawyers have completely stopped using email to communicate sensitive financial information. The banks just using it to notify the presence of a message in much more secure banking website document management. Lawyers are moving back to mail, telephone calls, paper cheques and face to face. How do you think they'd feel about WhatsApp?

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:36:23 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

It's free & does everything you'd want and lots you don't ; so can be a bit confusing at first, .......The systems in place for auto categorising, labeling + filtering ....

If Gmail is so bleeding wonderful why do the categorizations and labeling work perfectly on the Desktop view in Chrome, but not in the Gmail apps? Why does one app version give you the option to move emails between categorizations but not another, and why the heck don't you have any indication anywhere on the email itself what categorizations Google has decided to assign .😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

MI5 — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:45:33 GMT

It all comes down to personal opinions and experiences.
Very often on here you will get many opposing opinions. It doesn't make one person right and another wrong as it's all down to the individual.
Different people want different things and the best way is to try stuff out and settle into what suits YOU best, which may not be the same for others.
Opinions divide and not one person or one thing is right or wrong.

Re: Best email for filtering out spam ??

Cleoriff — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:08:44 GMT

I can't understand all the negativity re Gmail.

I was forced to change to it 3 years ago because of mutiple problems I had with btinternet.

It works perfectly on my PC and phone. Has never let me down (unlike BT which is a bit of a diva at times)