5 out of 5
Tried 9 Total, This One Is Easy and Just Works, Member SCWally
I tried all seven listed here plus Earthlink.net's paid service, and GMail's free offering. They all work to varying degrees, but Emailias has more features I tend use regularly and is easier. It's pretty much set it up as you go, and forget it. So I'm not sure what they mean by it being clumsy. There are a bunch of options though, so perhaps that's it. This thing has been great for helping with staying fairly private on the web too. My ISP puts my real name in their 'required' master email account. I used that as my primary account for less than two months before it was jam-packed with spam. Then the phone solicitors told me they got my name from email, and looked me up in the book!!!! I leared my lesson there. No need to try and use every feature of Emailias at first. I started out slow, and watched the tutoral primers they have on their web site as-needed. (Guess I'm typical male, read instructions only when stumped.) It took me about a month of occasional use to be up to speed with most everything available. But I'm not a super-web expert, and am over 55, so I didn't grow up with the web. Originally I didn't think I would ever need more than 10-15 alias accounts to manage my spam. I was VERY surprised to blow through those few accounts once I got started. It was a real pain to switch services though. My advice, skip the free and go ahead with a full service provider from the begnining. After getting my account setup with Emailias it was pretty easy to switch because of the shortcut application buttion that can be installed to the browser. When I go to a webpage that wants a email address I click the button and a new mini-popup windows comes up with a lot of the fields already filled in with the site that requested the address, etc. I'm not super organized or detail oriented, so this helped me keep better records of what site had which email address. When I finally spread out email aliases for each major site and vendor that I visit, I found out that the two worst sources of spam was my ISP/domain host; and the huge Internet domain registrar and hosting company that is located in the South West US. I even paid those jokers an extra fee to keep my address private! I've had Emailias for awhile and it just works. I don't know of any outages, but I'm sure they happen occasionally. All equipment breaks, or lines go down every now and again. It lets me remain private, limit spam, and is less than $20 for all my accounts and domain. Features that I find the most useful: >The Emailias browser plug-in which lets me click on a button, popup a separate window with fields for a new email alias already filled in, and either save or modify the address information. It's qucik, easy, thourough, and still less distracting than any of the other services. >Download a spreadsheet with a list of ALL my Emalias addresses, where they point, dates created, notes, etc. Basically a full backup of my Emailias database. I can save it and open it with Excel, OpenOffice, Google Apps, etc. No worries if something happens to them! >Can add a 'Emailias header' to incoming email that has extra fields to identify where the mail came from. If I have HTML mail turned on it even includes a shortcut button to quickly disable or delete a address that gets spammed. >Group and sort my mail alias addresses in different ways. My wife and I share an account and we have the table sorted with His and Hers. >Pre-create some addresses and reserve them for people or businesses that ask for an email address. You would be surprised how much spam comes from the kids school directory, church directory, contest and sweepstakes entries, and even the Dr.'s office! >I recently had my anniversary renewal with them. I was on vacation and 'forgot' renewing. My account expired, and was going to be deleted. One of the tech support people, not customer service sales type, CALLED ME because he didn't want me to lose my alias's by accident. When I mentioned being out of town he gave me a extra free month, no charge, and told me to have a great vacation and worrry about IF I wanted to renew when I got home. He also suggested downloading the spreadsheet of all my alias' as a backup, and offered to email it to me, no charge of course. He didn't even ask for a credit card number or anything. That is the only human contact I've ever had with them, but it was greatly appreciated! They already had proven their worth, but that won me over for sure!
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