Problem number 2 is not just limited to Rogers, it is a big problem with other internet providers as well.
Lots of people have an email tied to their ISP, move to a new province or city or neighbourhood and find out they can not continue with their old ISP and have to change to a new provider and lose decades of emails. This is even worse if you use this for a company or business.
Because of this, People have often moved away from being reliant upon their ISP for email.
I used to use Rogers for my personal email, but have since opened personal accounts with Hotmail, G-Mail, and Yahoo Mail.
@Sus4 wrote:
1. I will look into Outlook - I use it at work so might as well be consistent.
2. But just be aware that gmail has ads as well - however, they let you have two tabs and the ads to automatically in the secondary tab.
3. you say we can have gmail "fetch" rogers-yahoo email - is that actually true as I have heard Rogers blocks that.
1. Be aware that it has to be the latest paid subscription-based version of Outlook 365 or MS365 containing Outlook. Or the ad-supported version. See the following summary regarding the App PW Generator:
2. hmm. Never noticed any ads there, however, I don't use it much as it's just a backup when I have issues with Rogers.
3. Rogers/Yahoo! will not allow forwarding of e-mails, but several people on this forum have stated that "fetch" (actually called "Import" under the Gmail settings) works.
@DrMike wrote:
So one of the fundamental things I guess I do not understand is where these ads are actually being fed *from*. Why is it that if I access my Rogers email through another client (like Outlook) I do not see any ads, but if I access it via what used to be called Rogers Webmail, I do see them. This suggest to me that Yahoo is not serving them up at the source or else I would see them in other clients as well? So is it Rogers who is serving up the ads or Yahoo?
Hi DrMike,
I can help explain "some" of this to you how it works. To access Email, you would need to use an Email Client/App or purchase one if your computer does not have one.
Microsoft MS Outlook is by far the most popular one, and most of the time it does NOT come with New computers, some exceptions to this rule. You install the client, and enter your credentials and check the email, The client ONLY downloads your messages, you will not see any ads.
ANOTHER WAY to access your email is thru a Web Based email client, since you are NOT buying software, and the ISP or Email Provider is providing it to you as an option, you are using THEIR email client. Webmail is basically a web based email client, but they own it, its only purpose is to connect to Rogers email, not other email providers. So because they own it and they probably paid for the licence to make it available to you, THEY have the ability to insert advertisements in THEIR web client.
Tesla could make a FREE email client for anyone to use, and have it FREE but have it full of Tesla advertisements or ads of Electric cars. its a real thing.
Since so many years they never did this until now, means maybe it was part of their agreement or they never needed the advertising revenue, but something did change since they are being displayed, but I could not tell you what changed, This is purely a decision or action done internally and we are not privy to this information.
The fact that even Call Centre employees are not aware of this, could point the finger that this might be coming from the Yahoo company itself and not Rogers, but who knows? maybe rogers agreed to this to lower the fees of their contractual agreement? no one will know unless one of the 2 companies comes out and makes a public statement.
The Yahoo app for Android devices has also been displaying ads in the email list, so its not just iPhoneOS devices
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