I set up a vacation reply to respond to my clients and the spam, and they closed my account. They called a reply spam! How the !@#$%^& is it spam to set up a polite reply? My country (US) is being run by the gestapos of Microsoft and Google. I wonder how long they are going to let President Obama think he has some say. This place is slowly losing freedoms. Or not so slowly. That is my intellectual property! My reply was set up to autorespond to a craigslist ad that got a lot of responses. Anyway, I need an email service that leaves me alone. I do not know, one that does not think it can steal my information and business contacts. Do you guys know of any?
While this is an annoying and frustrating situation, the problem with automatic responses (like out-of-office replies) is that spammers usually put other people's email addresses in the "From" and "Reply-to" fields of emails. That means every time a spam message came into your account, the person whose address was falsely put as the sender received a message from your account. You were unfortunately almost certainly unintentionally a spammer. If you don't want to use a free service and abide by their rules (which include no spamming), you should get your own domain and hosting with mail server. But know that most web hosts will shut down your account for spamming too, for the simple reason that hosting spam accounts gets their servers placed on blacklists which affect all their clients. The upside, though, is that you should have more control over how your mailboxes are managed. You could, for example, set it up so that only messages relating to your Craigslist ad get the autoreply, which would cut down on the problem.