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[Qinella]

Yeah I said it. Hanmail freakin blows. I got my account last year thinking it would impress Korean girls (and, yeah.. it does sometimes). I soon learned that a lot of other account providers block Hanmail due to too much spam. Then, I started getting tons of spam on my account, although I'd never posted it anywhere on the Internet, nor used it to sign up for any account. My best guess? Daum sells the addresses to advertisers.

I've long since stopped using it except to check the occasional word from an old acquaintance or student, but now a new problem has arisen. I recently started a writing class, and I have the students email their essays to a Gmail account I set up for that purpose. Gmail, okay. Hanmail is blocking my replies! At random!

This is where I make a cheapshot about the self-proclaimed most advanced IT country in the world having the world's worst email host as its most popular one. Har har.

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[Ya-ta Boy]

Yeah. Hanmail is the worst. If it would consistently block, I could deal with it. So I just tell anyone who has one, don't expect me to write anything to a hanmail address. I just flat-out refuse. Too frustrating.

[lion]

I have never had a hanmail account, but nobody with a hanmail account ever gets my @yahoo.com mails. The problem is bigger than hanmail; the problem is spam generally, and the very coarse filters that email providers use to try and stop it.

[bluelake]

I've had a hanmail account for years and use it for one thing--communicating with my wife (when at work, I send/receive things with my university account). She only uses her hanmail address and it blocks replies from my hotmail address. I really dislike hanmail, for reasons stated above and that it also automatically logs you out after about twenty minutes.

[Confused Canadian]

I've posted this before...the only non-Hanmail address that I've had success with (i.e., I get all Hanmail messages, and they get all my replies) is Rediffmail. It's an Indian based e-mail system...nothing too fancy, but does the trick. I use it to communicate with my students, and knock on wood, none of them have ever complained that I didn't get one of their e-mails or that I didn't reply to one of their e-mails.

Sign up for a free 1GB account here:

http://login.rediff.com/bn/register.cgi?FormName=user_details

[OiGirl]

I tried Rediff mail based on a suggestion here (was it yours?) but still had mail to Korean academic addresses blocked.

[billybrobby]

yeah, hanmail sucks. completely unreliable for the most basic task of sending a small email to another person. i don't see how so many koreans manage it.

[JongnoGuru]

[Junior]

Does anyone know much about nate.com? Does it block emails from yahoo or hotmail?

[RACETRAITOR]

Hanmail should come with a warning: "Non-Koreans will never be able to e-mail you, and you will never know." It's probably screwed up millions of dollars of business over the years.

[seoulkitchen]

WEll, if it makes ya feel any better, a lot of Koreans I know feel the same way about hanmail. They refuse to use it. In fact, a lot of my little students didn't even use it.



Stop the spread of Hanmail!

[Mashimaro]

[Junior]

[RACETRAITOR]

I've found it usually sends us an "undeliverable" message. Usually.

[Confused Canadian]