Thursday, October 9, 2008

Free eStores and confirmation emails

One of the biggest problems we see with clients signing up for hosting accounts or estores, is that they continually use Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo email addresses when they sign up.

What happens? They assume they never receive the "Account Confirmation" emails, and we end up with a waste of space on the server.

Why? Well most automated "Account signup" systems send out automatically generated and generic emails, usually containing your essential login details and account information.

How? Most email servers these days run complicated anti-spam software, and unfortunately a lot of these generated system emails fall into the spam-box or spam-folder.

Oh! Yes thats right, thats the folder that you never bother checking, the one people assume is full of junk-mail only! The one where when they do check, they find that long lost email reply from Uncle Bill, or the login details for all the accounts that they have signed up for over the preceding months!

So people the moral of the story is.... Regularly check your junk-mail folders! You might be missing out on a big lottery win :)

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