QIP.ru wants only Russian mobile phonenumber to confirmation of email account.

[Dutchie007]

Since a couple of weeks I was unable to reach my accounts on qip.ru.
I needed a russian mobile phone number to do so....my Dutch number was not accepted.

So iow you can NO longer reach accounts made under qip.ru if you do NOT confirmate with a russian mobile number. What exactly the policy of this is I do not know because with most other Russian service you can put in a non-Russian mobile number without any problems (mail.ru/Yandex or Rambler)

Well i did not use them much anyway...it was just that they offer a cool name as "hotmail.ru"...LOL

However i would NOT recommend this service for any serieous email traffic....as their servers are very often down and they also NOT use https...to log in on their site..,-) Which is NOT a good thing imho.

Dutchie.

[Greensky]

I managed to have my Japanese phone number validated by contacting directly QIP.ru through their website: clicking on the help link, Помощь, you can submit a ticket requesting for help, and indicate your phone number - they would validate it for you and unlock your account.

Of course, I did this by writing a small mail in Russian

[Dutchie007]

Originally Posted by Greensky

I managed to have my Japanese phone number validated by contacting directly QIP.ru through their website: clicking on the help link, Помощь, you can submit a ticket requesting for help, and indicate your phone number - they would validate it for you and unlock your account.

Of course, I did this by writing a small mail in Russian

Thanks!! I will give it a try...but it is not that important you know. I hardly used my QIP.ru accounts anyway. Personaly I think Yandex,Mail.ru and even Rambler are far more serious contenders then Qip.

my 2 cents.

Dutchie.

[Greensky]

I quite agree. Qip.ru's servers are often off line during weekends, making it impossible to receive emails or to consult them on QIP's website. Personally I only use this email account to receive some updates related to a running application I installed on my mobile phone.

[Tsunami]

Dutchie, why are you so keen on Russian email services? (if the answer is political in nature, just ignore this question as it would violate the forum rules. If it's about the quality of the services, then please do answer, I'm just curious)

I know Russia has some of the best antivirus systems in the world (Kaspersky etc), so it could be a matter of quality. If you know how to protect yourself against malware, it could also lead to better security in email services that use the local techniques.

Mail.ru has a very bad reputation for being used for spam or malafide activities, a reputation it doesn't deserve since it is so widely used in Russia ... if you have millions and millions of users, you can simply not avoid that occasionally someone will abuse your service. That says nothing about the service itself, and for sure some people abuse Hotmail or Gmail too...
The only Russian service I heard nothing but bad news about is da.ru, a provider of third-level domain names (yoursubdomain.da.ru). Those services are generally a bit amateurish looking but most of them aren't associated with spam or malware (think the many .de.vu, .eu.org, .co.cc, .co.nr, ...) while .da.ru subdomains were used for very dodgy websites. Subdomains of narod.ru are used for regular websites though.

[Dutchie007]

@Tsunami: I send you a PM.

Dutchie.

[TenFour]

I wouldn't touch any Russian service with a ten-foot pole. With so many reliable and trustworthy European, American, Canadian, and Australian options to choose from, I simply don't see the appeal. Security and reliability are #1 and #2 in choosing email providers.