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    Changing email question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Halo360Fan, Sep 4, 2009.

  1. Halo360Fan

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    I'm really paranoid as your going to find out in a sec lol

    My main email account is getting a bunch of spam and I just want to change it. It has a lot of stuff that are connected to that email. My email was from qwest with msn. so my email ended with @msn.com. If I got to msn.com and set up a new email address will it be just as secure as my old main one and it will end with hotmail.com rather than msn.com. I just want to know if I set up a new msn account it will just as secure as my other one. Again i'm paranoid lol.

    Thanks!
     
    Halo360Fan, Sep 4, 2009
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  2. MaXimus

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    if you make a new email regardless on what domain @xx.com

    it will be clean and have no spam, unless you keep advertising your new email on sites and in program registrations
     
    MaXimus, Sep 4, 2009
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  3. gmoneyphatstyle

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    Why not go with gmail? I get tonnes of spam but gmail filters it all out so I never see it.

    Also I dissagree with MaXimus that you won't get spam if your diligent with not advertising your email. Eventually someone you know will CC you a funny joke email that just gets forwarded into infinity and all those email addresses will get picked up at legitimate addresses by spammers. The point it there's no way to protect your email from spam, what you need is a spam filtering that works.

    By the way, if your msn email account supports IMAP or POP, then you can configure email to simply fetch any email sent to your msn account. You can also configure gmail to use your msn address as your return address so you won't have to tell anyone you've changed your email.

    If you need help with configuring gmail to do the above just let me know.
     
    gmoneyphatstyle, Sep 4, 2009
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  4. KarenA

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    Correct. My work address (using gmail) is given to a group of people only, and I still got one or two spam now and then.

    Halo360Fan, if you want to have a new email address, I recommend gmail for your for the reason that gmail has one of the better spam filtering.
     
    KarenA, Sep 4, 2009
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  5. gekk_gad

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    i use 3 email addresses, 1 for spam-trap (things that need an email address that aren't very important but i just wanted to see what's behind it), 1 for work and 1 personal.

    i get 200 spams a day on my spam trap and get zero on my work and personal email.
     
    gekk_gad, Sep 5, 2009
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  6. TevashSzat

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    I'd recommend getting GMail too.....I've actually haven't gotten spam from anywhere that I didnt sign up for even in my spam-trap account.
     
    TevashSzat, Sep 5, 2009
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