I currently use a free yahoo email account. This is an account that I created just to have an email address. The main reason I use this is because one of my friends suggested it and of course becouse its free.
I currently just need to send and recieve emails and send attachments. I do like spam protection, virus protection, online access, forwarding, storage space, and organizational tools.
3 Possibles
-Hotmail
-Yahoo
-Gmail
I have chosen Hotmail because of the storage and easy to use interface. Hotmail allows me to log in with windows live where I have access to my Xbox live and outlook. Also comes with top of the line security. Yahoo does not offer all the conveniences and storage space of Hotmail. While Gmail was right there with Hotmail I liked the convenience of my Xbox live with Hotmail. On a professional not I liked the organization offered by hotmail along with the storage space.
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If you're going to change email platforms for your primary email, couple of additional things to think about.
ReplyDeleteDoes your current email provider allow email forwarding? Can you set Yahoo to forward all incoming email to your new address? I'm personally not sure of this one.
Do you plan to delete your Yahoo account altogether? Personally, I wouldn't. I still have my original Yahoo account created circa 1996. I don't really use the email account; mostly only spam comes through (and the Yahoo spam catcher is wretched). However, there are other Yahoo services I still use and access via that account: fantasy sports, delicious, flickr etc.
Does the new service allow you to send emails as though it's coming from your current provider? If you have emails forwarded from Yahoo to Hotmail, can you reply within Hotmail as though you are replying from your Yahoo account? Gmail does that. I'm not sure about Hotmail.
Does your email provider allow you to access/read multiple email accounts? Gmail does. My primary Gmail account accesses 3-4 different accounts and pulls them all into one inbox for me.
How good is the spam filter? From my personal experience the hotmail spam filter is not any better than Yahoo's. Gmail on the other hand is quite good. I rarely get actual spam landing in my inbox; it's all shooed away into the spam folder.
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