List your 5 most used email services?

nooby · 11 Aug 2009, 07:31 AM

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

Quote:

A Comparison of 11 Free Webmails

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.

Quote:

EUMX $ [EN]
FASTMAIL $ [EN]
RUNBOX $ [EN]
GOOGLE APPS $ [EN]
VFEMAIL $ [EN]
OVH $ [INT]
LAVABIT $ [EN]
GMAIL [INT]
ARCOR [DE]
GMX [INT]
COMPUTERMAIL [EN]
VFEMAIL [EN]
YAHOO! [INT]
LAPOSTE [FR]
FREENET [DE]
FASTMAIL [EN]
AOL MAIL [INT]
INBOX [EN]
HOTMAIL [INT]
EARTHLINK [EN]

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.

Luzo · 11 Aug 2009, 07:44 AM

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.

curvefan · 11 Aug 2009, 09:06 AM

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

jeffpan · 11 Aug 2009, 12:42 PM

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.

ukgangster · 11 Aug 2009, 03:55 PM

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.

janusz · 11 Aug 2009, 04:15 PM

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).

mjolnir · 11 Aug 2009, 05:08 PM

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.

alexu2007 · 11 Aug 2009, 05:45 PM

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

**CyberSmurf** · 12 Aug 2009, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjolnir

1. Hotpop
...
3. Bigfoot
4. MyRealBox
...

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

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

. .

xmailer · 12 Aug 2009, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberSmurf

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

. .

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.

cococo · 12 Aug 2009, 04:16 AM

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

xmailer · 12 Aug 2009, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cococo

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.

**CyberSmurf** · 12 Aug 2009, 06:28 AM

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).

Berenburger · 12 Aug 2009, 06:37 AM

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

EuMX
FastMail (backup)
GMail (backup)

- Tuffmail (gonna let it expire)

xmailer · 12 Aug 2009, 06:47 AM

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.

11 Aug 2009, 05:08 PM	#7
mjolnir Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 84	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.

12 Aug 2009, 06:37 AM	#14
Berenburger The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 2,981	- Pobox (forwarding service/domain hosting) forwards to: EuMX FastMail (backup) GMail (backup) - Tuffmail (gonna let it expire) Last edited by Berenburger : 12 Aug 2009 at 07:16 AM.

11 Aug 2009, 07:44 AM	#2
Luzo Essential Contributor Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: France Posts: 229	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.

11 Aug 2009, 09:06 AM	#3
curvefan Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 498	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

11 Aug 2009, 12:42 PM	#4
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,418 Representative of: tls-mail.com	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.

11 Aug 2009, 03:55 PM	#5
ukgangster Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 77	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.

11 Aug 2009, 04:15 PM	#6
janusz Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: EU Posts: 5,002	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).

11 Aug 2009, 05:45 PM	#8
alexu2007 Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 287	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

12 Aug 2009, 04:16 AM	#11
cococo = Permanently banned = Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: planet google Posts: 46	why still mention fastmail, - it must be the worst and it's all over the forum everyday.

12 Aug 2009, 06:28 AM	#13
CyberSmurf Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,084	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).

12 Aug 2009, 06:47 AM	#15
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	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.