Very true Neil. I reckon it would be quite a headache changing providers for that reason !
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 5:38 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > > Hi Stephen , > > Well if your ISP stops being your best service option and you want to change > providers, then that email ceases to exist. > > Then trying to inform everyone of your new email address isn’t too bad, but > remembering everything you have signed up to online, where that email address > is often your user name, or where you get password reminders sent, and then > going there to log-on and change email is a real pain – and sometimes is not > even possible – a new email address can mean re-registering or re-subscribing. > > That’s why I prefer to have my own domain – but for others Gmail, Yahoo, etc > is a solution - as long as they stay in business ;o) > > > > Cheers > > > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > > on 11/11/15 12:55, Stephen Chape at chap...@bigpond.com wrote: > >> What about using the email address supplied by your provider. >> Then you can use Apple Mail (or an equivalent). >> Then you can tell Mail it is not junk. >> >> I don’t understand why anyone uses external email (Gmail, Yahoo, etc) unless >> they are travelling a lot and therefore require that facility ? >> >>> On 11 Nov 2015, at 10:50 AM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone any suggestions on getting Gmail not to put a regular item >>> in Spam? On most days I receive an update on science news items from >>> Science Daily, and Gmail insists on putting it into Spam (their spam >>> detector is pretty good, this particular item is the only one giving >>> trouble). >>> >>> The item comes from: >>> All Top News -- ScienceDaily<noreply+feedpr...@google.com> >>> reply-to:All Top News -- ScienceDaily <newslett...@sciencedaily.com> >>> >>> I have tried putting all combinations of the above into my address >>> book, but with no effect. Each day I open my Spam list, mark the >>> Science Daily item "Not Spam", and clear the rest. Every couple of >>> weeks, when I have marked the item "Not Spam", a message comes up from >>> the Gmail Spam Team asking if they should take account of this. I >>> always reply "Yes", and it makes no difference. >>> >>> I don't suppose there is anywhere I can contact the Gmail Spam Team >>> directly to get a specific item like this not spammed out? >>> >>> Cheers, David Noel >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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