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Cartel
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Re: [Info] Upgrade your Hotmail inbox to Outlook.com??

Well it looks like dog puke and I'm not happy about it.
They are ruining the whole system.

Alcohol
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I think it's a lot better. And outlook aliases are great.

JohnInSJ
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said by Cartel:

Well it looks like dog puke and I'm not happy about it.
They are ruining the whole system.

The great thing about free, is it's free.

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said by Cartel:

Well it looks like dog puke and I'm not happy about it.
They are ruining the whole system.

Here's what I would do if I were in your...sandals...

1. Call up MS and threaten you are taking your free email address to Gmail.
2. Sit back and wait for MS to send you 1 year free Outlook.com access for your troubles.
NoHereNoMo
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said by Alcohol:

And outlook aliases are great.

Are they different somehow from the aliases in Hotmail?

Does outlook.com have fewer/smaller ads than HoTMaiL? (I've had a Hotmail account since before Microsoft bought 'em. Haven't actually used it since the mid '90s because of the spam and having moved on to Yahoo and then Gmail, and I won't be leaving Gmail unless Google really screws it up more so than they already have with the Plus and the disabled "new compose experience" [which really sucks]... but that's what Thunderbird is for.)

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said by NoHereNoMo:

Does outlook.com have fewer/smaller ads than HoTMaiL?

So far, I haven't seen any ads.

I can't find a way to make it auto-refresh though. I have to refresh manually to check for new mail.

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said by Alcohol:

I think it's a lot better. And outlook aliases are great.

I looked it up, and they are useful. The 5 to 15 quantity limit is low. I use the Yahoo (provided with my internet) equivalent "AddressGuard" AKA "temporary email addresses" which allows something like 300. If one gets compromised, just delete the one. Make sure you never use the underlying address for anything except access and maybe with a particular user that you feel unlikely to get compromised. Also, I can use POP3 access too, which I am suspecting that Outlook mail would not provide.

With 5 I might use one for 1. banks etc, 2.friends who send non-Bcc emails to 50 of their close friends, 3. careful friends, 4.rebates and other short-term use. 5. Paypal, since some sellers put you on lists.

However I also found this which, if accurate, would reduce the advantage of outlook aliases. »www.eightforums.com/brow ··· ain.html
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Hotmail has had free POP access for awhile now, and MS keeps saying that we "won't lose anything with outlook.com" (though I'll believe it when I see it). Those Yahoo features you're referring to--POP access, "AdressGuard" disposable addresses--are Mail Plus features ($20/yr).

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said by NoHereNoMo:

Hotmail has had free POP access for awhile now, and MS keeps saying that we "won't lose anything with outlook.com" (though I'll believe it when I see it). Those Yahoo features you're referring to--POP access, "AdressGuard" disposable addresses--are Mail Plus features ($20/yr).

Several Mail Plus accounts are provided by my internet provider because Yahoo provides the mail service, although the sub-accounts are each administered through one main account. Each of the accounts including the sub-accounts can have its own set of AddressGuard addresses. The 5 to 15 on Outlook mail will still be very useful to those with other providers. It takes no extra work to receive. The address used appears in the To header, so you know which address was used.

The only addresses that I deactivated due to spams so far are PayPal twice, and a reputable electronics distributor that I deactivated when I got a single .ru email offering Rolex watches.

I did not know about the free POP access.
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Yeah, Verizon used to provide Mail Plus as part of their deal to have Yahoo Mail for its customers, then they dropped the Plus for just the standard Mail--not really a problem since I only used it as an address for Verizon to use to send out notices about whatever (never use an ISP-provided address for anything "real").

The underlying outlook.com addresses being "revealed on hover" of the alias sounds like the same thing Gmail was doing for something or other feature they offered for "sending as" (though I forget the actual details). Well, just another feature I never used much if at all.

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said by UmmaGumma:

said by NoHereNoMo:

Does outlook.com have fewer/smaller ads than HoTMaiL?

So far, I haven't seen any ads.

I can't find a way to make it auto-refresh though. I have to refresh manually to check for new mail.

Ads are on the right side of the page. They dont show up if you have adblock.

I really like the unlimited storage in outlook and how it separates my amazon orders into a new folder.

Too bad i can't get the emails on my android phone. This is the only reason i won't switch from gmail.

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said by Alcohol:

Too bad i can't get the emails on my android phone. This is the only reason i won't switch from gmail.

IMAP... someday. In the meantime doesn't android support EAS?

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said by Alcohol:

Too bad i can't get the emails on my android phone. This is the only reason i won't switch from gmail.

IMAP... someday. In the meantime doesn't android support EAS?

The main account is still hotmail so i can't get any alias emails.

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said by NoHereNoMo:

Those Yahoo features you're referring to--POP access, "AdressGuard" disposable addresses--are Mail Plus features ($20/yr).

Don't cost me a penny, having got them through AT&T; the. "at&t Yahoo! HSI" service I had.

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said by UmmaGumma:

I can't find a way to make it auto-refresh though. I have to refresh manually to check for new mail.

FF+TabMixPlus lets you set a refresh timer for a single/multiple tab(s).