The Best and Safest EMAIL CLIENT To Use For My Ebay Stealth Accounts

[semory]

Which is the Best and Safest EMAIL CLIENT To Use For My eBay Stealth Accounts, and can i answer the email from customers directly from a email client, I am a newbie and want to avoid any mistakes. thanks

[jeffweico]

Gmail is probably your best bet. Set it up so that images do not automatically display. I would only answer email from the stealth account connection. I know that they say Gmail stores images only on their servers, so beacons are not an issue, but I have never trusted that. Better safe than sorry.

[semory]

Thanks jeffweico i have already been using that one is there any other alternative?

[jeffweico]

If you are only going to use it on your stealth setup, then any email provider should be OK. But Gmail is not as associated with SPAM as Yahoo and Hotmail. Another alternative would be to use an email address issued by your cable/internet provider. They typically give you access to 5 or more free email addresses with your subscription. And that looks GREAT to eBay, PayPal and Amazon.

[semory]

Originally Posted by jeffweico

If you are only going to use it on your stealth setup, then any email provider should be OK. But Gmail is not as associated with SPAM as Yahoo and Hotmail. Another alternative would be to use an email address issued by your cable/internet provider. They typically give you access to 5 or more free email addresses with your subscription. And that looks GREAT to eBay, PayPal and Amazon.

I was thinking of using mailbird 2, Pop Peeper or thunderbird. Have you experienced any one of these?

[slokor]

I also use gmail.
Since I have so many accounts though I use netvibes to be able to check all of them on one single page to see which ones got a new message.

[jeffweico]

Originally Posted by slokor

I also use gmail.
Since I have so many accounts though I use netvibes to be able to check all of them on one single page to see which ones got a new message.

Interesting... I didn't know that one.

[jeffweico]

Originally Posted by semory

I was thinking of using mailbird 2, Pop Peeper or thunderbird. Have you experienced any one of these?

The danger in email is not retrieving the email itself. It is the images. You MUST not display the images. The email itself is sitting on your email server. When you pull the email, you pull it from your server. But the IMAGES are are requested from the sender. The requested image may not even be visible to you, it can be 1 pixel.

The sender uses a unique name for the image, something like askflughq432eru5t1ioghqoiubverg4523.jpg and when it retrieves the image, their server logs the IP address the image was retrieved from.

That is why it is always safe to use your email on your stealth machine, but not any other. This is called a "beacon".

[desikanjar]

Gmail and yahoo are kool

[ItzakJano]

What i do is to open Gmail, Forward all my account mails to 1 main account.
and open the emails only through my Smartphone,
No place for photos and stuff

[xhan]

Thunderbird + disable remote images + plain text

[MM78]

Originally Posted by ItzakJano

What i do is to open Gmail, Forward all my account mails to 1 main account.
and open the emails only through my Smartphone,
No place for photos and stuff

It's like going from Point A to Point B, while taking a Detour to Points C-G then back to Point A and rerouting to Points H-W then to Point B.....why so many steps?

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by desikanjar

Gmail and yahoo are kool

Yahoo has a tendency to allow spam.

We stopped using them because of phishing emails

[rsot]

Too many scammers also use yahoo as e-mail - low reputation

[Hamada]

I would like to make sure if netvibes still save to use after new update to add Gmail by add button