Mail advice?

[kianspo]

Hey guys,

So, following the fact that my email was hacked, Yahoo in its infinite wisdom now doesn't allow me to reply to mail or to send it. Basically they are blaming the victim, which, don't get me started.

Point remains, I rather liked having a separate account for LJ notifications, and fandom things (as opposed to personal email). I want a new

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[rotrude]

I use hotmail. And I also have a semiforgotten gmail account. Hotmail works fine most of the time.

[kianspo]

Thank you. I've been considering it, though I don't like them insisting on me giving them my cell phone number...

[rotrude]

You can skip that part... It's just less 'secure'.

[kianspo]

Actually, no. I think you could skip that part before, but you can't anymore. At least I couldn't when I tried, it wouldn't let me create an account without it. Which sucks because mailboxes are hacked all the time, and the last thing I need is for them to get to my phone, too.

[kototyph]

Gmail doesn't necessarily have to be inconvienient. You can be signed into two (or more, in my case) and switch freely between them without having to sign in.

[kototyph]

[kianspo]

Yep, I've considered that. But I'm too paranoid of mixing the accounts myself, like sending the wrong email from the wrong account, and this would probably make it easier for me to screw up. :D

[lygtemanden]

I've got two gmail accounts, which works fine for me, I've got both set up on my iPad, and the fanfiction one is also captured by my hotmail account (I set that up before I got my iPad). On my computer I've got google chrome set up to log into my fanfiction gmail, and Firefox to log into my private gmail account, it been going strong for almost two years now, so...

[kianspo]

Sounds like a good option...

[fairyniamh]

I use gmail for my fandom stuff. I do NOT use Hotmail anymore because it has randomly stopped accepting notifications from LJ/DW/IJ/FFN/AFF/you get the picture.

However I do use gmail to forward my mail from those places to my hotmail. (I'm complicated.)

one thing I do is make sure I have a hard password and have 010101@block.com in my email address books. So far that address has saved me many of headaches. Good luck!

[kianspo]

have 010101@block.com in my email address books

That helps?

[fairyniamh]

well I used to get my email virus hacked all the time and sent out some pretty nasty emails without knowing. When I added that (and I saw it on the news or something like that) the sending out emails stopped.

The news report said that when a virus tried to send via your email it would get stuck at that one address because it wouldn't be able to find it... or something like that.

Bottom line: it's worked for me so far.

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[kianspo]

Oh, nice. I need to use that. Thanks. \o/

[kianspo]

Actually, that's what I got yesterday, after much deliberation. :D So yay for classic! ;)