Let’s say I have a really cool and hard to get email address username such as hydrocloric@hotmail.com or hydrocloric@gmail.com. I would be so proud but then I dare not simply use it to sign up on any forms or let everyone know to prevent spam or even someone hacking it. When a Hotmail or Gmail email account is hacked, it is nearly impossible to get it back after the hacker changed the secret question and answer or the alternative email address. If you send an email to Hotmail support, they will only reply you with a ready written email template that ask you to try recovering your account through the secret question and answer or just sign up a new email account.
To solve this problem, a lot of people including me have more than 1 email account. I have a Hotmail which only my close friends and family knows about it, a Gmail for everyone else to contact me and finally, my domain email address for my customers.
akapost is a simple and easy way to protect your email identity from being exposed on the Internet. With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private. akapost works with any email client or device such as computer, cell phone, or handheld, etc. No software download or installation is required. Simply sign up and register your email address, it’s ready to go. Protecting email identity has never been so easy - and yet it’s FREE!
The below example scenario would help you understand akapost’s concept better:
• 1. Brian would like to send an e-mail from his company e-mail account to Lisa. But he doesn’t want Lisa to know his actual e-mail address.
• 2. Brian signs up with akapost, creates an akapost e-mail address “JediMaster@akapost.com”, and associates it with his actual e-mail address “Brian.Jones@company.com”.
• 3. Next Brian appends the extension “.akapost.com” to Lisa’s e-mail address and sends a message to this customized e-mail address “LisaW82@yahoo.com.akapost.com“. The message is then redirected to akapost.
• 4. akapost substitutes Brian’s e-mail address with Brian’s akapost e-mail address, strips all personal information in message headers ties to Brian’s actual e-mail account, and delivers the message to Lisa.
• 5. When Lisa receives Brian’s message, she doesn’t know Brian’s actual e-mail address because the original sender address has been replaced with Brian’s akapost e-mail address. To Lisa the message seems to be sent directly from Brian’s akapost e-mail address. When Lisa replies this message, the replied message is sent to Brian’s akapost e-mail address “JediMaster@akapost.com”.
• 6. akapost receives Lisa’s replied message and forwards it to Brian’s actual e-mail address “Brian.Jones@companycom”.
akapost currently offers three types of services: akapost Basic, akapost Plus and akapost Premium. akapost Basic is completely free, which allows you to create one akapost email address and protect one your actual email adddress. akapost Plus cost $22.95 per year and you can create up to 5 akapost email addresses and protect up to 10 registered email addresses. As for akapost Premium, it cost $9.95/month. You can create up to 25 akapost email addresses and protect up to 50 registered email addresses. You can also create customized email addresses (for example, sales@yourcompany.com) with an additional fee.
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