Do you guys use email addresses from your ISP or Web based mail?

I was wondering, what the advantage would be of me using an email address provided to me from my ISP over a free one from Gmail or Yahoo Mail or vice versa. What do you guys use and why did you choose what you chose?

 

I use to use Yahoo but then i got into GMAIL beta and never went back. I simply like Gmail better than than the rest. I think it's a choice of preference.

 

Since I have several emails that I manage, I use outlook. To me its the easiest way to check imap and pop accounts. I would also reccomend that ALL users get a "junk" account that you can have spam sent to. When you apply for online offers and stuff give your junk email address to keep your regular emails from getting full of unwanted email. GL

 

If you use Yahoo mail, you may have a problem sending to anyone with a Comcast.net address. Comcast is blocking Yahoo because of spam. I am having trouble now communicating with an eBay seller because of the block. I don't receive any mail from him when he sends mail from his Yahoo email address.

Jim

 

Don't use your ISP's email, it locks you into their service. You will be free to switch ISPs whenever you need to. I prefer GMail, which has an excellent spam blocker, and free POP access.

 

I use GMail and Hotmail.

Granted I hate Hotmail, but I'm kind of stuck with it because I have two important and widely used emails on it.

On the other hand, I LOVE GMail. Great email service.

 

Absolutely Gmail. Great service, now supports POP and IMAP, storage, and a VERY good spam filter.

Same opinion here with ISP emails. My wife actually paid the AOL monthly fees to maintain her email account for a while. That was until we finally got tired of the fees (and found Gmail).

Regards,
Paolo

 

I just use hotmail mainly becuase all of my other friends did too. It manages to do the job fairly well.

 

Yes AOL... I remember those days. What a waste of money that was!

 

I've been using Hotmail for years, so no sense telling hundreds of contacts to contact me from a new GMail account now. Or at least, I'm lazy to do that .

But I use two emails now, one Hotmail one GMail. I try to use GMail for more of the important emails, and keeping my Hotmail account for old contacts and for IMing.

 

I got a domain with 1and1 and set up an email account on that.. it's very cheap. Also I use Yahoo webmail for personal stuff and for anything I need to register to but want to avoid spam from I use anonymous hushmail addresses.

 

I use both, and also an account from our domain.

 

Both. I've had my ISP email for a long time so stuck to it, I now use it more for junk or for website accounts. I also use GMail (and hotmail but that is almost only for messenger)

 

yes, as someone else said, don't use your ISP's service, you'll be slaved to them if you need to change service. It took me the better part of a year to make sure all of my forum userid's, online store, etc accounts were updated with my new web based email (I use yahoo). Trust me you don't want to do that. I never realized how many sites I visited, until I went to visit another forum to get an answer to a technical problem, or whatever, that it was still tied to my ISP's email.

So better to keep a web-based one IMHO.

 

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. I don't have a problem with any of them. At least so far.

 

I use my university email address to send/recieve messages, but I have linked it to a gmail account so that I can use the excellent interface that gmail provides. This way, I get to use the .edu domain name but still enjoy the great gmail interface, because gmail supports linking to a third party POP server.

 

I use AOL mail for the majority of my e-mail since that's what we used for the last three years before high speed was available here. I also have a MSN/Windows Live Hotmail account from when we had MSN before we switched to AOL. Finally I have a Verizon address, but never use it because I don't want to be "locked in" and also because it's web interface is horrid.

 

It would make sense to use the web interface if you're at someone else's computer to check email, but on your home computer with gmail or hotmail, do you guys use the pop3/imap settings to access it with outlook and stuff?

 

I live in Canada, and our Primary cable/internet service is provided by Rogers.

I have been using Yahoo for years now, along with Hotmail, and recentlly GMail.

My Yahoo has always been my primary account, but a little over a year ago Rogers offered me the ability to join my Rogers and Yahoo accounts which provided me with 2 email address linking to the same account.

Usually I wouldn't have done this, but it allows me to have POP3 access many Gigs of space now, ability to access my ISP information right from Yahoo and just recently the free unlimited and unrestricted use of Flickr photo service.

I'm not leaving Rogers anytime soon and with these two added perks, I don't think I ever will.

 

My e-mail address is from my mail server, so I don't have to worry about things from free e-mail providers such as limited attachments and what not, that is, if I'm not sending to someone who is signed up with that provider.

Boo attachment size limits .

 

I used to have a Comcast email, but now I only use Gmail. I've found that Gmail's interface is much easier to use - I don't even use an email program like outlook or thunderird w/ my gmail account. Plus having a personalized iGoogle homepage is nice =)

 

I use GMail. I used Yahoo! Mail before, but when I got an invite from Blogger to try out GMail [that was more than 3 years ago; GMail then wasn't widely available -- invite-only], I've been using it ever since. GMail rocks. They started the GB storage trend [Yahoo mail back then was limited to 4MB *gasp!* so I was constantly checking mail just to delete most of them]. Although there were a few times when GMail's filters mistakenly classified an e-mail from a classmate as spam [this usually happens when a document/project is attached].

I really hated it when Yahoo made POP access a premium feature. Ugh.

I don't think we have ISP-based email here in the Philippines.

 

I use yahoo and gmail. Gmail is by far the best web mail!

 

I second Gmail. It's by the far the most simple and reliable email service. Not to mention that googletalk is light and easy to use.

 

GMAIL all the way

Been using it since beta, will never go back. Use it now in combination with Outlook 2007 so that I don't have to log on to the site instead I can just open up my outlook.



Benefits of using email address given by your ISP might be that they send you information through their unless you have told them to use a different email. This information can be ranging from adverts to warning notices telling you to stop downloading **** lol.

 

I still use AOL since I've had the addy for 10 years. Now that AOL is free, I'm not locked in to using them as an ISP but, can still use their software if I choose, or get my mail off the web.

 

I use four different accounts all coordinated through Windows Mail (previously Outlook Express). Personally I never liked the free ones because they tended to get blocked from time to time and a lot of people that I know don't even open e-mail from those accounts assuming if it ends in one of the free account names that it is spam (even though most spam uses spoofed addresses now from a mail server with open relaying, the perception still exists).

I have two different business e-mail accounts with the company domains, one personal account through my ISP, and one junk account through my ISP (that sometimes gets deleted and re-made with a different name).

I have switched ISPs twice in the past three years and didn't have too many issues with the migration. I keep file structures in Outlook in place for all of my e-mail so it is very easy for me to keep track of who I need to update with the new address for my personal e-mail account.

 

ISP email addresses are POP3 which means can use them on MS outlook...u dont need to visit website ....POP3 are rarely free

All others are web based email services and hence free like hotmail, yahoo etc.


But Gmail is best..it is POP3 also and its free...


I have used Gmail with outlook and currently i am using gmail with Mozilla Thunderbird.