Reply to: free email

[expat]

Disadvantages:

1) More complicated email address for people to use

2) People will know your normal email address

3) People will know that they are unpopularpeople

4) the + sign is probably rejected by the unsubscribe web page!


Anyway it doesn't do the requirement, which is not to receive those emails until I want to (as against just not having to read them until I want to).

[eek]

Disadvantages:

1) More complicated email address for people to use

2) People will know your normal email address

3) People will know that they are unpopularpeople

So make it

expat+highpriority@example.com instead....

[DirtyDog]

Could you try using the + seperator with your normal email address? e.g.

expat+unpopularpeople@example.com

Then setup a filter to tag/move email sent to the above address.

Disadvantages:

1) More complicated email address for people to use

2) People will know your normal email address

3) People will know that they are unpopularpeople

[kingcook]

Could you try using the + seperator with your normal email address? e.g.

expat+unpopularpeople@example.com

Then setup a filter to tag/move email sent to the above address.

[expat]

iCloud.com?

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of that since I only use 1 Apple device but it is a possibility.

[stek]

iCloud.com?

[expat]

set a rule up to file them in a sub folder.

Good suggestion in itself, thanks.

Problem is I use 3 methods to access email (mail program, webmail, and Blackberry) so it's hard to cover them all. Especially the BB, which gets the emails before even my server processes them.

Part of the point is indeed not having to read the low/no-priority emails 10 times a day, but the other part is not even to have them sent to my Blackberry at all, especially while I am roaming outside Europe.

As usual even the replies that don't fit my case have served me well, in making me ask again exactly what my requirements are. Not to mention making me ask myself, if I can't spec a simple requirement in plain English, maybe I should look for another career!

[vetran]

I think his point is that he doesn't want to see emails sent to the 2nd address, except when he logs in every once in a while, otherwise he'd just use his main email address. So forwarding the mail would mean he's constantly bothered with the spam, which is precisely what he wants to avoid.

set a rule up to file them in a sub folder.

[expat]

Who is your current email with? If it is with your broadband provider they allow a number of different mails so why not just sent another one up. If you have joebloggs@btinternet.com you could also set up JBLimited@btinternet.com and have them delivered in to the same inbox so you are checking them as often as your main?

Am I missing something here?

It is with a domain registrar and web host. I have my own domain with them, and with it comes 1 email address free.

It is true that I could use a forwarder to forward OUT to a free email, which would obviate the desire to have a .com since nobody would see the free address.


I don't have a landline broadband provider, or indeed a landline.

[expat]

I think his point is that he doesn't want to see emails sent to the 2nd address, except when he logs in every once in a while, otherwise he'd just use his main email address. So forwarding the mail would mean he's constantly bothered with the spam, which is precisely what he wants to avoid.

Bingo!

[Ticktock]

If there is a forwarding rule, then you don't need to check it, since it forwards the email onto your "main" email from that, secondary and hardly used, email address...but nothing stops you from logging in an checking it. I have, for example, 3 gmail addresses, primary, secondary and tertiary - the latter 2 have forwarders on to the primary.

IAOH

I think his point is that he doesn't want to see emails sent to the 2nd address, except when he logs in every once in a while, otherwise he'd just use his main email address. So forwarding the mail would mean he's constantly bothered with the spam, which is precisely what he wants to avoid.

[northernladuk]

Who is your current email with? If it is with your broadband provider they allow a number of different mails so why not just sent another one up. If you have joebloggs@btinternet.com you could also set up JBLimited@btinternet.com and have them delivered in to the same inbox so you are checking them as often as your main?

Am I missing something here?

[darmstadt]

outlook.com

My gmail and yahoo accounts occasionally ask for a telephone number but you can skip it.

[Scruff]

I know what a forwarder is. Perhaps I expressed myself badly.

I have an email address, which I check often. That's fine so far.

What I want now is a second email address, which I will give to lower-priority people: an address which I will check from time to time, but not often. I do want to check it, but I specifically don't want to check it often.

And I don't want to get it from my current email provider (because of cost).

How are you suggesting that I use a forwarder?

If there is a forwarding rule, then you don't need to check it, since it forwards the email onto your "main" email from that, secondary and hardly used, email address...but nothing stops you from logging in an checking it. I have, for example, 3 gmail addresses, primary, secondary and tertiary - the latter 2 have forwarders on to the primary.

IAOH

[expat]

Erm, which rule does gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail break? Im sure they wouldnt delete your account if you log in every few months.

They do ask for a mobile number. I don't like giving it out, but I suppose I'll have to.

I was under the mistaken impression that yahoo mail would make me take a .co.uk address, but that has changed so it might be the answer.

I didn't want Gmail because I already have one and wanted to avoid confusion. Apologied, you couldn't know a rule that I didn't state!