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I've had one for about ten years now. I have two email addresses with it - one for my personal email, the other for online ordering, registrations on sites from which I want to receive correspondence, etc. I receive almost no spam in either account. I use Thunderbird as an email reader, but I can also access my email online.
I keep my ancient Yahoo account for throwaways and sites I don't trust not to sell my address. (There is no address book on my yahoo account, so even if it was hacked, there's nothing for anyone to gain.) If I really don't trust a site or have any desire to receive correspondence, I use a mailinator.com address.
What I don't think is excusable with the new yahoo is that you can log into mail.yahoo.com now, NOT check the box (I never stay logged in), but when you exit you are still actually logged in to yahoo--if you are at a motel that is awful because people may not know they left themselves logged on. You have to go to the home page (house) and log out THERE.
That might actually be your browser. If you don't check "keep me signed in" you're supposed to get a session cookie which is supposed to be deleted when you close your browser. Apparently now Chrome and Firefox (at least) are not doing this like they should. As a consequence, I've gotten in the habit of always explicitly logging out of sites when I'm done and not relying on the browser to do it for me.
It seems to me that gmail gets hacked pretty regularly. As in every contact I have who has gmail has been hacked with various spam being sent out under their names.
Getting "hacked" just means that someone had a weak password and was guessed by robots. I get these from people I know all the time. 80+% of them are either Yahoo or Hotmail/MSN/Live accounts in my experience. Very few are Gmail, private domains, or ISP mail.
That might actually be your browser. If you don't check "keep me signed in" you're supposed to get a session cookie which is supposed to be deleted when you close your browser. Apparently now Chrome and Firefox (at least) are not doing this like they should. As a consequence, I've gotten in the habit of always explicitly logging out of sites when I'm done and not relying on the browser to do it for me.
But it is odd, I don't have this happen on other sites where I don't check to "remember me" or "keep me logged in"....I have to log in each time just like I had to log into yaho each time. Well def log out completeley now. Husband did show me an easier way. But good practice.
Eudora® + gmail (pop & smtp)
local download, filter as needed
I was poised to roundly criticize that recommendation, since Eudora hadn't been updated in years and the old versions croaked on mail with HTML in it... until I clicked your link and saw that there are now Open Source versions of Eudora.
I used Eudora for 10+ years and gave it up around 2008 or 2009. I don't think I'd go back to an email client now, since I use multiple machines and platforms, but I have older family members who still use Eudora. Knowing that I can upgrade them to a newer version in encouraging.
It seems to me that gmail gets hacked pretty regularly. As in every contact I have who has gmail has been hacked with various spam being sent out under their names.
This has nothing to do with the email provider and it isn't hacking or preventable. It has more to do with how public your email address is. If it's published on the web somewhere, it will be detected and spoofed by spammers.
This has nothing to do with the email provider and it isn't hacking or preventable. It has more to do with how public your email address is. If it's published on the web somewhere, it will be detected and spoofed by spammers.
If it were simply spoofing the address, I wouldn't be getting mail from people I actually know. Besides, I've gotten calls from people who've lost control of their webmail accounts.
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