Is a Hotmail account reliable?

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declanja

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Have been using a Hotmail account for my emails. I have recently read that Hotmail and AOL can be unreliable for delivering email, especially when carrying attachments. Read this on another forum. Is this true? If so can I ask for recommendations. I also have an eircom.net address but find this cumbersome. what about gmail or yahoo?
 
I'd recommend Gmail as a main account and have a hotmail account for signing up to anything that might generate junk mail- website registrations etc.
 
Bubbly Scot said:
I'd recommend Gmail as a main account and have a hotmail account for signing up to anything that might generate junk mail- website registrations etc.
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Same here. I don't think Hotmail is unreliable, just a bit of a spam magnet if you use it much.
 
Thank you for replies. I have not had any junk mail to my hotmail account! I use it quite a bit with attachments and am now worrying that some of my outgoing emails are not being delivered. I am using my Hotmail account to respond to new email enquiries re a holiday rental property I own.The nature of these enquires is that many dont respond to my initial email anyway, but the fear that they are not getting my initial reply is worrying.
 

Create another account say on Gmail and cc it when you send from hotmail then you'll be sure.
 
I think sometimes other peoples e-mail will flag mail coming from free accounts such as hotmail, yahoo & gmail as potential spam & so may get filtered.
BTW a quick search on gives 293,000 results a search for gives 2,570,000 results.
I've been using hotmail for over 10 years now.
 
I think thats more of an indicator that more people have moved to gmail than that Hotmail has less problems tbh.
 
Agreed, or maybe gmail users are a bit clueless
If I was starting out, I would say gmail look like the best service, but e-mail is a bit sticky. You need alot of pain to be forced to move.
 
Thanks again.I reply to enquiries that are recieved by email by clicking the "reply" icon. Would this insure the recipient recieves it in the incoming page rather than the junk page? I am also comfortable with Hotmail but dont want to lose potential customers.
 
No. Using the reply button won't change whether or not a mail is flagged as potential "junk".

Most e-mail filtering services go to great lengths to avoid "false positives" in e-mail filtering, so I'm not sure that too many mails would be flagged as junk simply as a result of coming from a free mail account (although it can and does happen). Unless they also contain content/subject lines which would suggest/be similiar to spam type mails they should be ok.
 
I have a high level of filter on my hotmail and sometimes things get "junked" that shouldn't coming into that. In gmail I've only had one "junk" mail which landed there because the client emailed me for the first time and included other reciepients.

If the reciepient is someone you've mailed before, they will probably be sure and filter so that your messages get through. For a first email, as Satanta said, so long as you use an appropriate (non spam sounding) subject line there's a good chance it will get through.
 
Bubbly Scot said:
I have a high level of filter on my hotmail and sometimes things get "junked" that shouldn't coming into that.
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If this happens, I'd strongly suggest you use whatever the option is (been a while since I used hotmail so not exactly sure what the option is called) to report the error.

I always would have been of the opinion that such reports were of little consequence, but I know a few people who work in anti-spam and it really is a necessary report. Most "rules" used to block spam are clever and well thought out, but all it takes is one slip for a rule to be written and passed which will block every e-mail on a network (this has happened in the past! although usually fixed very fast when a rule is passed containing errors).
 
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