[ZeroByte]

Google has to be my top choice after my ISP. Google now has POP email service as well.

[styx]

indeed, and it keeps going... sending images with picasa is very easy

[phileysmiley]

I have 19 emails. But I mainly use one. The very first ISP I ever had was Bluelight.com. It was totally free. You got the CD at Kmart. Anyone remember? Anyway, it came with a branded Yahoo homepage and Yahoo was their "official" email. It pops into my OE and to this day it is my main addy. Later on, I purchased a domain name from Yahoo and have my own addy, but it redirects to Yahoo so it's basically the same. I also have an email through my college alumni association, but that also redirects to my domain which redirects to Yahoo.

I only had Bluelight for about one month when I got Verizon DSL. So that was my ISP email until I switched to Comcast cable. So that is my ISP email now and that comes into OE too. I never go to the website. Oh, and I also had Netzero for awhile as a backup dialup ISP but I got rid of it.

Then I have a bunch of other emails: Hotmail, Excite, Lycos, Email.com, Netscape, Hriders, and a few others. Some are under my real name, some are under phileysmiley, and some under a couple of other names I have used with other forums and websites.

So here are my favorites:

2) Comcast (mainly only for sending and receiving large attachments)
1) Yahoo (for 99.999% of all my emails)

All the others I hardly use anymore. I used to check my Hotmail, Email.com, Excite, Lycos, and Netscape emails every day when I was active at other sites but as I got involved here I stopped going.

[emolamol]

my list:

1. yahoo

2. hotmail

3. google

4. www.rediff.com (1GB)

5. www.indiatimes.com (very fast)

6. www.hriders.com (dont like the look n feel..... 1TB rox)

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Edited by phileysmiley -- fixed links -- don't forget to keep a space before www and after .com

[imnuts]

i would say that AOL is actually one of the worst, although that's my opinion. Anytime you connect to their network, they a direct link to your computer and if they really wanted to, they could do about anything they wanted to. I don't know how good they are otherwise, but i see a lot of trouble with their software and their service in general at times. i would say that Gmail and Yahoo! are on the top of the list for free e-mail addresses and the ISP e-mail is usually the best to use if you can.

[dotcompals]

Again dredging an old thread up!

In my exp. (for the last 7 years of email usage), I will rate as follows

No: 1 - Gmail
No: 2 - Yahoo
No:3 - ??? (please help me to fill up)
No:10 - fastmail.fm
No:150: indiatimes
No:999 - rediffmail
No:1578 - hotmail

[Cyndessa]

Does google's POP3 work well?

I know when I try to use my school email, its really flakey when you use the pop3 off campus. Its 50/50 if it will work.

I'm trying to find a new email, how would I get a gmail account?

[Neuromancer]

Does google's POP3 work well?

I know when I try to use my school email, its really flakey when you use the pop3 off campus. Its 50/50 if it will work.

I'm trying to find a new email, how would I get a gmail account?

I ocassionally have issues with hte pop3 service, but its usually in the middle of thenight (which is when I am normally awake, but his last week I have been on a night sleeping kick, so i have not seen it)

Even then its just htat my mail client (be it outlook at one time, and now Opera) will just periodically NOT sign in. It trys but prompts me for a password, which it will not accept)

I have to hit cancel and on the next send/recieve cycle it usually works.

[weazzle]

Google is up to 2.4 GB now. That is pretty decent. Especially when you can own an unlimited number of accounts.

edit: Hellacious Riders is now only 100 GB. Just got an account.

[poisonbl]

Does google's POP3 work well?

I know when I try to use my school email, its really flakey when you use the pop3 off campus. Its 50/50 if it will work.

I'm trying to find a new email, how would I get a gmail account?

PM anyone (only need one person) here who has mentioned having it (including myself) with your email addy and we'll send you an invite, AFAIK, it's the only way to get one right now ...

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My List:
1:^*^ Gmail - huge storage, more than i need really, and large attachments ... fast, easy to use, will work with *any* browser (limited functionality in html only mode) and even looks great in links (text mode linux browser) ... and the way it manages searching/labels is great

2: Yahoo - one of my two longest lasting accounts, used to be my primary before Gmail came along ... great, reliable, relatively clean interface, now up to a gig of storage ... and my username on it is my actual name (instead of some variation of "Poison [BL]"), so it looks very professional for anytime i need that ...

... (very distant to still be here, but i still have/use it )
3: Hotmail - my other really old account, now used primarilly for anything that could lead to mass spam ... used to be reliable, but the interface is kind of heavy, and they keep changing things around to mess with non-IE users ... requires an extension in FF to use tabs now, etc. ...


how do you get gmail to POP? is it through the same account and is it free?

i'd be interested in that so i could dump all my emails onto disk for backup (and it'd give an excuse to finally try out slypheed )