I changed my personal email address a while back to reset the spam counter to zero. I don’t use my personal email address much and I managed to last a while, protecting my address from spam for about a year. Slowly the spam started appearing. It’s really not much – a few a day – but I don’t get much proper email, so relatively, it was a lot.
But, the main thing for me was that I heavily access my account with my phone. The spam headers were annoying to manage, since the email client on the phone has no spam filter. The only solution was either to pay my email provider for a spam filter or find some other free way of having a spam filter.
Well, I finally set up a Gmail account – forwarding my email to it, setting my reply address properly, and setting up the POP access from the phone. Yup, it all came together quite well, even better than before. I have spam filtering and my sent messages show up in my Gmail sent folder. Also, I can use my PC client to also access Gmail the same way.
The sad thing is that I had to go to a separate service provider to have all this done. If my email provider (in Finland, no less) had a clue, they would make spam filters free and make a more mobile-friendly email service.
Hmm, seems like practically everyone can use some help in making their services mobile-friendly. And of course, when I mean ‘mobile-friendly’ I mean integrated into the mobile lifestyle.
Mobile lifestyle – sounds lame, so feel free to suggest another term for me to use. 😉
Nothing to say on Mobile Lifestyle…I have much of that, too..but am still stuck with my laptop.
Anyway, just want to say that that’s the point isn’t it? You’ve just reiterated what you’ve said before, that service providers are usually scared to let go of their controls…just because they reckoned that they’d lose profit, but they somehow don’t seem to realise that it’s the opposite way that they’ll profit.
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