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Q: What email do you use and is it stable in China?

gmail - yeah right

yahoo - has been increasingly failing

 

I heard hotmail got a new security system update - anyone with a hotmail address who can confirm?

 

What's the most reliable and secure email one can have, especially in China?

11 years 35 weeks ago in  Web & Technology - China

 
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I use gmail and hotmail.

 

Hotmail works the best here the but the spam filter it has sucks.

Gmail works allright can be slow and drops out of gtalk most of the time but has the best security features for web based email.

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I use hotmail and it is fine so long as I turn my VPN off! When I have it turned on the darn thing (hotmail) often times out! Although this has been better recently.

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I use gmail and I have had a total of one problem accessing it in the 12 months I've been in China, and that was using my phone, I got around it my using my computer that one time.

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I use Gmail mostly.  But I also have my own domain that has its own email system.  Gmail can be slow sometimes, but I just flip on the VPN and it is fine.

 

I can't stand Yahoo or Hotmail.  Their interfaces look like something a 3 year old with turrets syndrome would come up with.

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Use hotmail ,I think is good ..

 

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Hotmail works great, love their service and filtering software on the website.  Never had an access problem here in China with it.

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Another hotmail/gmail combo user.  As long as my iPhone is on wifi, I get pretty instant notifications of new emails, and can send emails with no problem using either service.  Either one can be spotty when using on a non-VPN computer, gmail more so than hotmail.

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I thought qq mail is the best in china

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I used Bell with a VPN. I can check my email by Hotmail, but most times Hotmail was frozen, I could do nothing with it.

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Hotmail here

Never had any problems   YET !!!!!

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gmail, associated with all my accounts on other servers

those accounts itself

gmail works little faster then others (mails by the gmail account associated with for example polish e-mail server came 15 minutes earlier)

for a time being - with no VPN at all

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yahoo. gmail, sohu, qq, 163, 126

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In China, Gmail is more reliable with connecting than Hotmail. I use both almost everyday so that is a proven fact for me.

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I use my cloud acct on my iPad.

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  Surprised by the amount of Hotmail users here, i've been using Hotmail for years but over the past year it's become worse and worse. I've come to the conclusion that with all the problems it's been having that Hotmail is under attack by professional hackers. I've turned to Yahoo recently and only go back to Hotmail to pick up stray mail from old friends. The last time I checked, after about two weeks absence, i'd amassed about 200 pieces of junk mail. Then yesterday I heard on the radio that it is going to be fazed out altogether, so so much for Hotmail.

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mArtiAn, Hotmail isn't closing down! At least not unless something big happens soon.

 

What you may have heard was talk about a huge phishing scam on hotmail relatively recently (it has been repeated a few times though) basically an email is sent saying hotmail will close your account unless you either send an email to 18 customers (version 1 i.e. a spam attack) or to stop your account being closed you have to send them your details, passwords etc, (a blatant phishing scam).

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Hotmail has always sucked...go for Gmail

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Hotmail is much more secure than any one and i like to use it ..it is much more reliable than others

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I use qq mail exclusively.  I love being monitored and spied on but it sure beats the many days on end that I can't get to my gmail or hotmail accounts because of the GFW.

It may suck but if ya got nothin to hide it works like a charm.

Oh wait...I have a VPN...never mind.

 

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I found a free email that always works and and is not messed with locally at rediff.com

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I found a free email that always works and and is not messed with locally at rediff.com

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hotmail, best support with china web. yahoo sucks, gmail has problems because great firewall...

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I'd say,Hotmail

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I have gmail, qq, yahoo and the upgraded/new hotmail that is not called hotmail any more. It is outlook mail now...........everything from my old hotmail account goes to my new outlook account ............  outlook, looks similar to gmail ......hmmm.......... all accounts kind of connected so I get everything 3 or 4 times....no issues with any of them though.

BHGAL:

besides my getting the stuff 3 or 4 times....  you probably get my e-mail too .... did you read the one from  ____________  ? good deal huh!!!

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