All this is a long - winded, overblown introduction to why I think it's important to have your own email address instead of an email address hosted at Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, or even Gmail (my personal
webmail service of choice).
Not exact matches
All told, you can get by but it's far from perfect, and
of course if you don't have a
webmail service you're up the creek.
T - Mobile's new web push
service lets you keep track
of your
webmail accounts like Gmail and Hotmail on your phone without even having web access
Yesterday I wrote about the new Outlook app for iOS / Android, calling it a truly universal inbox that aggregates emails from all
of the popular
webmail services — Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Outlook — into a single unified Inbox.
However, on the other hand UEA
webmail service also currently has the following warning: «Because a large number
of UEA accounts have been compromised through recent phishing attacks, we will be requiring all users to change their passwords in the coming weeks.»
Regardless
of whether you use Virtru with Outlook or with a
webmail service, you also get access to an online dashboard.
Not all institutional employers allow employees to use
webmail services like hotmail or gmail — the govt
of Ontario did not until relatively recently — for security reasons.
Yet many
webmail services close the account on the death
of the user, or after a period (counted in months not years)
of inactivity.