DISQUS

Alex · 7 months ago

The only reason I still use hotmail is because I can't get my email out of it, or get it to forward to my gmail. You're totally locked in. All of the tools I've tried just do not work, especially with a Mac. Anyone got any suggestions?

Alex · 7 months ago

Yup, this doesn't seem to work either:

"There was a problem connecting to mail.hotmail.com. Please contact Microsoft's support team for more information on POP access."

Anthony Ha · 7 months ago

Did you ever figure out what happened here? Had they not rolled out the new import feature to your account yet?

Gibson Tang · 7 months ago

I have abandoned Hotmail and Y! mail for years now as their spam filter is next to worthless. GMail's spam filter on the other hand, is working great for me.

John · 7 months ago

I've heard that gmail targets their ads to the contents of your email.
Thats too spooky for me.

But if I could Pop my Hotmail to Yahoo I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Mark · 7 months ago

I still use Yahoo for my primary mail. I have Hotmail, which I rarely use; actually have it only because Yahoo required an alternate email address. I have Gmail and have tried hard to like it. I don't like the interface and function, and I find all those relevant ads annoying. (I know, I'm supposed to find them helpful).

Your Boss · 7 months ago

You people are ridiculous! who cares, your gonna get junk mail and your gonna get spam from putting your name out there...that's what the junk and spam folders are for idiots. Don't listen to these people whoever reads these. You have an email account...your gonna get junk, don't be lazy...just delete it! If you don't know it, don't freekin open it. Its a free e-mail account your not paying for it so who cares if you get junk...you get junk mail in your house mail everyday...I don't see you complaining about that now...or are you people to lazy for that to...haha I bet your to lazy to even throw that away. I've been using Hotmail for years and haven't had a problem yet..no viruses or anything...in fact just to even open a regular e-mail not in the junk or spam folder it warns you before if you don't know the user or sender it might not be safe to open in a big yellow screen. I for one will stand up for Hotmail, just because you people see something new, all of you are like, ooh! something new! I gotta get that! haha have fun tards!

Anonymous · 7 months ago

I'd love to use Gmail, but there are no addresses available for me. For now, I'm sticking to live.ca until the email with my name is freed up.

Anthony Ha · 7 months ago

I got invited pretty early on, but I got screwed out of anthonyha@gmail because there is supposedly an Anthony Ha working at Google.

Papa Charlie · 7 months ago

I love Hotmail and have been using it as my primary email address for a long time. I have a Gmail and Yahoo account, but prefer Hotmail's interface. On my email account I receive non-stop spam and its not that I have the problem, even my mother who barely uses the internet, has a Gmail account which is spammed often. My vote goes to Hotmail.

Esteban · 7 months ago

I use hotmail as my "junk mail address" to give out whenever registering to sites that will eventually send you spam. For friends and contacts I'm all up for gmail, great filters and also it's the only one that can really sync (thanks to free IMAP) with my iPhone, iMac (home) and Ubuntu laptop (for uni). I gotta hand it to google, gmail is great and it just keeps getting better.

Mark · 6 months ago

I moved to email from COMCAST figuring I will move in the next 1-3 years, and used my three initials and myy of birth so I had no problem getting a six digit unique email address for personal, and one for my business (the business name). I did find it difficult to get my name even tho it is 13-letters German and somewhat unique--less than 100 phone listings in the USA, and only a handful with my first initial, let alone my full first name and last name and other similar combinations (with dots, etc.)

Pes · 2 months ago

Yeah Google and gmail are rullez they are amazing and new functions are good!