List your 5 most used email services?
 

Not sure if this is best part of the forum for such a thread?

I come to think of it after reading here

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...78&postcount=1

He started with 16 but some have been dropped and some added lately.

Would be cool to see if any of them comes up.

He lists these now.

I use just now these

Gmail
Hotmail,
y7mail (a variation of Yahoo) that has pop. But ymail in some countries has pop too.

That is the three I use most.

I have Fastmail and Safe-mail as reserves and plan to maybe include VFE mail as a reserve too if something happen to the bigger ones.

I have stopped using GMX and Lavabit and AOL/AIM not sure if I will keep them active.

But I am very curious on you who know how the others work. Which are the one you most rely on of arcor and Laposte and such less international ones.

EDIT

Seems enough of youi trust GMX so I have added it to those I maybe will use.

Most of the time, I only use :

1) FastMail, with my domain names
2) Free.fr (not included in the review as the signup is limited to france, verification by snail mail)

Recently, I started using EuMX and OVH.

I mostly use: Gmail/Google Apps.

If I had to pick four more services, they would be:

1. Fastmail
2. Eumx
3. Gmx
4. Inbox

have 50+ email accounts on different systems.
used often:

gmail-1: for mailing lists
gmail-2: backup documents and messages
google application: email for my businesses
yahoo: Y! messenger, use mailbox fewly
domain email at godaddy: private mail
arcor: private mail, pop fetching on my Ubuntu
gmx.net: backup mail account
189.cn: my ISP's, very fast, used fewly but for sending some large files via SMTP.

1. Tuffmail for 6 of my personal domains
2. Slashmail as backup for 2 domains
3. G Apps for 3 other domains I manage, but don't use on a regular basis
4. Yahoo
5. Fastmail

I also have 4 other email addresses, but these will be terminated sometime in the next year. ;)

I use
1) fastmail & eumx for serious business
2) gmail as a backup for the above (very rarely for sending)
3) inbox and gmx for certain low priority mailing lists
4) yahoo (2 TLD's) every now and then

I also have a collection of accounts here and there, practically dormant (save for an occasional login to keep them alive).

My list
 

1. Hotpop
2. Mailsnare
3. Bigfoot
4. MyRealBox
and
5. Outgun

I haven't tried many others because for some reason I really don't get very much email. :D

1. Eumx for critical business communication
2. Gmail Apps with my own domain (1) for private and personal email
3. Gmail Apps with my own domain (2) for business email
4. Gmail email account for back-up and email archive
5. Yahoo - mailing lists, low priority personal or business email

With providers like those I'm not surprised you don't receive much e-mail. . . ;) . . :p

You beat me to it. I was going to say that, while I'm not sure about Outgun, the first four on this list might be among the worst services ever discussed in these forums, and generally when they rarely come up for discussion here at all it's only to complain about how bad they are.

As for my own "top five", I really wouldn't know which ones to list among the many little-used accounts I have at more services than I could easily remember. But, as a free email only user (except for my Fastmail.fm "member" account), although I still have many "issues" with it, I've been forced to concede that Gmail may be "the best of the bad" at this point, and it's the only one I use on a regular/daily basis anymore, if possibly more just out of habit than anything else.

why still mention fastmail, - it must be the worst and it's all over the forum everyday.

Why mention it? Because the question was "List your 5 most-used services." And obviously opinions vary on which are the best or worst, etc. And I don't personally consider Fastmail "the worst" by any means, although I don't consider it the most cost-effective of the paid offerings at this point, was I to decide to begin paying for email again.

Five most used providers, not necessarily five best.

For me ...
.. Telus.net . . (My old ISP. I like all the aliases that I can create).
.. Shaw.ca . . (My current ISP. I send my daily test message from Shaw).
.. GMail
.. Yahoo . . (I have an account that allows POP).
.. Humour.com . . (I have an old account that allows auto-forwarding).


I also get a fair bit of use out of 3Web (CIA.com), email.it, GMX.com, and my work e-mail. But I only use my work address for work (and the shop lottery pool).

- Pobox (forwarding service/domain hosting) forwards to:

• EuMX
• FastMail (backup)
• GMail (backup)

- Tuffmail (gonna let it expire)

Speaking of ISP email addresses, for awhile I considered my earthlink.net accounts among my most reliable. But having recently discontinued with Earthlink as my ISP, after using it for some 10 years or longer, although my free addresses there, independent of my ISP account from when they were offering free email to anyone for awhile, are still technically "active" as of the last time I checked, my impression is that the service has become less and less reliable, with perhaps one of the highest "silent discard" rates of any service I've ever used. So I rarely use them anymore.

I never did use my humour.com account much for long, but as I haven't used it at all for a few years now, I'm guessing it was likely deactivated for non-use quite awhile ago.

I didn't mention i12.com above, though, which I've been using similarly just for autoforwarding for quite awhile now, for much of my limited personal email, and which, aside from a rather major outage earlier this year when they allowed their domain to expire, has remained very reliable now for a number of years, despite the fact that their main page hasn't seemed to have been updated for several years now. So, I suppose I might be able to call that one of my top five "most used" services, if receiving/forwarding only counts as "use".

And I still have the two cia.com addresses, which I opened soon after that service was first discussed here awhile ago, which I try to keep active by autopolling them via POP3 regularly through Gmail (and I also have them both set up for autoforwarding elsewhere). But I've never actually used either of them for anything beyond occasional testing, so I have no idea how reliable they would be for regular use.