I was trying to help my friend set up an account with nail.com. He got his address and password fine, and he does get some mail, but not most. They apparently will not respond to requests for help and I guess there's no faq. He's been trying to set up accounts which he cannot do because of this. Is there any way to fix it?
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Mail.com problems
- Thread starter Rgarner
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Has he checked his spam box to see if some of the mail is going there? Are the senders getting bounce messages?
I've used mail.com for years, it's a good service and generally very reliable.
With the free tier, customer service may be somewhat delayed. I have the premium service so I can use POP3 access.
I've used mail.com for years, it's a good service and generally very reliable.
With the free tier, customer service may be somewhat delayed. I have the premium service so I can use POP3 access.
POP3 is an old mail setting for receiving mail only
POP3 downloads the messages to an email client on your PC (l use Thunderbird) so you can save them locally. IMAP/webmail keeps the messages in the cloud so you have to be connected to the internet to see them. It's less popular these days and mail providers either don't offer it or charge extra for it.
The email client I used for years was only Pop3. They warned for a couple of months recently and then removed Pop3 from their service. IMAP is all they offered when I moved on. Most all cell phones use IMAP by default.
I use the mail.com app on my phone and T-bird on the home desktop, so when I'm home the messages get downloaded via POP and saved locally. Webmail on the laptop which is also IMAP.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
I have been using my mail.com account for about twenty years now, it is the only email with the pOp3 service, maybe cvheck the spam folder too.. Chceck in each of the message he does get too.
Webmail you do have to be connected to read messages.
IMAP can sync with your device(s), allowing you to have offline access to your mail. A decent client will allow you to choose which folders you sync.
(I've not used POP3 for 15-20 years.)
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
I remember when POP3 via Mail.com was free. Then one day my clients all errored out. Today i use the legacy Hotmail servers imap-legacy.office365.com to enable my 'outdated' old clients a continued life. I like what I like. Anything that was going to mail.com previously I set to forward to hotmail.
If anyone prefers an older client, or has an old tablet or phone with an old OS that has a built-in Email client, and uses Hotmail or any Outlook type mail address, you can use that server above. It might have 'imap-legacy' in the name but it's supposed to be set as a 'pop3' server with the port number 995, SSL.
If anyone prefers an older client, or has an old tablet or phone with an old OS that has a built-in Email client, and uses Hotmail or any Outlook type mail address, you can use that server above. It might have 'imap-legacy' in the name but it's supposed to be set as a 'pop3' server with the port number 995, SSL.
Phone support is only for Premium (paying) customers. Otherwise use this form-
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nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
It's a shame they locked so much behind yet another subscription model. As if the world needs more of that crap.
Well phone support lines cost, email support costs, running and maintaining servers costs, software maintenance costs, and all of those costs are ongoing ones rather than one-off. So the options are to charge subscriptions (at least for some services, and hope that some fraction of your free users decide to upgrade), bombard you with ads, or shut down. Or find some deep-pocketed philanthropist who'll fund a free email service plus support for anyone who wants to use it, but the sort of people who can afford to do that didn't get into that position by being the sort of people who would do that.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
But I don't need a Microsoft 365 subscription to use any email client I want with Hotmail, so whatever mail.com decided is not even necessary. subscription models are just another World Economic Forum goal, hoping that every aspect of society will be rented, never owned. Agenda 2030--You will own nothing...and you will be happy.
I honestly wanted to dismiss it as a crazy conspiracy theory until BMW added a subscription to use heated seats in your car. Then Toyota with remote start, Tesla with auto pilot, and myriad others that lead me to worrying that it isn't so crazy, but might end up part of normal society really soon whether i want it to or not.
Seriously, does anyone ever add up the total cost of all those streaming services to find out cost over time? they get you with those 'too-good-to-be-true' initial prices, hoping you'd forget about it and set it all to auto-pay, but at one point I was losing 900 dollars a year on subscriptions alone and did something about it. cancelled all of them. Bought my music, and bought into physical media.
I honestly wanted to dismiss it as a crazy conspiracy theory until BMW added a subscription to use heated seats in your car. Then Toyota with remote start, Tesla with auto pilot, and myriad others that lead me to worrying that it isn't so crazy, but might end up part of normal society really soon whether i want it to or not.
Seriously, does anyone ever add up the total cost of all those streaming services to find out cost over time? they get you with those 'too-good-to-be-true' initial prices, hoping you'd forget about it and set it all to auto-pay, but at one point I was losing 900 dollars a year on subscriptions alone and did something about it. cancelled all of them. Bought my music, and bought into physical media.
The phrase "WEF goal" is a conspiracy theory, pure and simple. You don't need to invoke any conspiracy to explain companies looking for ways to extract money from customers.
(For the record, BMW dropped the "heated seat subscription" - guess not enough people paid for it to be worth the bad publicity. And if I owned a Tesla I'd pay money not to have their "autopilot" feature in the software
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But nobody in this thread has mentioned a MS 365 subscription to use Mail.com, which as you say would be a silly thing to do because you can just use an email client of your choice. I made the point about running costs because you were complaining about a support telephone line becoming a subscription-only service, which to me seemed more reasonable than the idea that a free email service would provide phone support to users as well.
(For the record, BMW dropped the "heated seat subscription" - guess not enough people paid for it to be worth the bad publicity. And if I owned a Tesla I'd pay money not to have their "autopilot" feature in the software
).But nobody in this thread has mentioned a MS 365 subscription to use Mail.com, which as you say would be a silly thing to do because you can just use an email client of your choice. I made the point about running costs because you were complaining about a support telephone line becoming a subscription-only service, which to me seemed more reasonable than the idea that a free email service would provide phone support to users as well.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
It goes beyond a telephone line thing. there is a ton of previously free 'features' of mail.com being pushed to a subscription paywall and it's not necessary. If Hotmail can offer free POP3 access why can't they?
the WEF is a real organization, they run the Davos agenda every year, and if you can't see what's happening in front of you then that's your issue. Denying it isn't going to solve the problem though. the fact we have life as a service more now than ever is one of their goals for 2030. Private property is something they want to abolish. Unfortunately, it's a slow boil so by the time it actually happens nobody will even notice, because it will just 'be how things are'. I mean, if you can get a 'free' house and UBI without earning it, you will probably be fine with it. however, that likely means obeying your overlords in government and agreeing with every narrative they promote, never questioning it or risk losing that which you never owned to begin with. Life is not a free ride and shouldn't be. If anyone assumes that AI making it where we don't even have to work is going to make humans more altruistic or caring, they're kidding themselves. At best, they now have many more hours to waste on Tik Tok, Twitter, or watching Netflix, and the dystopia seen in 2014's WALL-E will be reality.
I find it quite odd that they felt the need to BAN incandescent light bulbs instead of letting the free market just work. take it how you will, but it's happening. when you can't travel in the future because the EV you will be forced to drive after 2030 can't go farther than 250 miles, maybe you'll see. i hope you don't anger the government or they might issue a software 'update' to reduce your range, and God help you in a power failure. Hope you don't have relatives on the other side of the country.
I prefer freedom, and that includes freedom of people to make stupid decisions. the whole natural selection thing will sort the idiots from the intelligent, we don't need the government interfering in it. let people find out the hard way the real consequences of their choices. I find it ironic how the government was instituted to promote the rights of humans to have all these rights and choices, but is so insistent on curtailing them left and right these days. all for the 'greater good' which is always nefarious.
the WEF is a real organization, they run the Davos agenda every year, and if you can't see what's happening in front of you then that's your issue. Denying it isn't going to solve the problem though. the fact we have life as a service more now than ever is one of their goals for 2030. Private property is something they want to abolish. Unfortunately, it's a slow boil so by the time it actually happens nobody will even notice, because it will just 'be how things are'. I mean, if you can get a 'free' house and UBI without earning it, you will probably be fine with it. however, that likely means obeying your overlords in government and agreeing with every narrative they promote, never questioning it or risk losing that which you never owned to begin with. Life is not a free ride and shouldn't be. If anyone assumes that AI making it where we don't even have to work is going to make humans more altruistic or caring, they're kidding themselves. At best, they now have many more hours to waste on Tik Tok, Twitter, or watching Netflix, and the dystopia seen in 2014's WALL-E will be reality.
I find it quite odd that they felt the need to BAN incandescent light bulbs instead of letting the free market just work. take it how you will, but it's happening. when you can't travel in the future because the EV you will be forced to drive after 2030 can't go farther than 250 miles, maybe you'll see. i hope you don't anger the government or they might issue a software 'update' to reduce your range, and God help you in a power failure. Hope you don't have relatives on the other side of the country.
I prefer freedom, and that includes freedom of people to make stupid decisions. the whole natural selection thing will sort the idiots from the intelligent, we don't need the government interfering in it. let people find out the hard way the real consequences of their choices. I find it ironic how the government was instituted to promote the rights of humans to have all these rights and choices, but is so insistent on curtailing them left and right these days. all for the 'greater good' which is always nefarious.
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I know the WEF is a real organisation, but if you believe stuff like "private property is something they want to abolish" then I simply give up. I remember EarlyMon once writing "friends don't let friends read infowars", and that's what I feel reading stuff like that.
As for stuff like banning incandescent bulbs "rather than letting the free market just work", that's an example of the logic climate reality deniers would use: pretend to acknowledge that there's a problem but insist that nothing should be done because that would "interfere with the market". There is no such thing as a "free market" anyway, all markets work within a regulatory framework, and history has shown repeatedly that under-regulation is at least as bad as over-regulation (unless you are one of the monopolists who you claim to oppose).
I'm not going to get into a long discussion here, because this is completely off topic for this thread.
As for stuff like banning incandescent bulbs "rather than letting the free market just work", that's an example of the logic climate reality deniers would use: pretend to acknowledge that there's a problem but insist that nothing should be done because that would "interfere with the market". There is no such thing as a "free market" anyway, all markets work within a regulatory framework, and history has shown repeatedly that under-regulation is at least as bad as over-regulation (unless you are one of the monopolists who you claim to oppose).
I'm not going to get into a long discussion here, because this is completely off topic for this thread.
You're right that it is getting off topic. You're also right that "free markets" are a load of crap. If a nation is serious about keeping things on the rails about the last tactic it would try is laissez faire. John Kenneth Galbraith's son James K. Galbraith has written an excellent book, The Predator State, which is partly about just this nonsense. Speaking of off topic, how do I post to that department? What happened to My Threads? Why are Alerts and other items which should be at the top now all the way down at the bottom?
Wow this thread sure took a turn.
Not looking to fuel the fire but mail.com is currently owned by a European group, although I can say from personal experience that their service got a whole lot better after the new owners took over many years ago.
I am happy with them and will continue to use the service.
Not looking to fuel the fire but mail.com is currently owned by a European group, although I can say from personal experience that their service got a whole lot better after the new owners took over many years ago.
I am happy with them and will continue to use the service.