WebMail
Web-based E-mail account
- You may use the Web-based e-mail ("WebMail") account that comes with your ISP account (at home). You must contact your ISP to see whether your ISP offers a Web-based e-mail account.
- Other Web-based e-mail accounts:
- Gmail - by Google
is a very good alternative to Hotmail. Yahoo does not charge you to retrieve your mail from your POP mail server(s).
- http://mail.yahoo.com -
- Problems with cookies
- Tools > Internet Options > Privacy (tab) > Sites (button) > yahoo.com > remove
- Tools > Internet Options > Privacy (tab) > Advanced (button) > Override auto cookie
- Tools > Internet Options > Privacy (tab) > Advanced (button) > Always allow session cookies
- Warning:
Hotmail: Hotmail requires you to pay $30 (Windows Live Hotmail Plus) to retrieve your mail from your POP mail server(s). MSN subscription accounts such as MSIE will allow only one WebMail account (Microsoft's own WebMail: MS-Hotmail). This is clearly not adequate because MS-Hotmail no longer provides free access to your POP accounts. Unfortunately, you must also subscribe to a WebMail account (like mail.yahoo.com so that you can access your POP accounts (like DC1 and Sympatico).
- Don't use Outlook Express in our labs at Dawson College because Outlook Express will save all your e-mail messages on the C: drive and anyone and everyone will be able to read all your messages.
- E-Mail & Mailing Lists ...
Bug Warning!!
- There seems to be some sort of bug with all of the WebMail servers.
- In your Preferences/Options you selected "Leave messages on server", but the messages disappear as soon as they are retrieved by any mail program.
- So... you have to use your WebMail account immediately after sending the message. If your e-mail client (e.g. Outlook) gets the message first, then your WebMail program can not get the message. Only the first program to pick up the mail will be successful.
- Let me know if you find out how to fix this problem.
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