I'm sorry for having to bring up this old thread, but it is a good thread so I decided I might as well make a post in it.

Currently, I use the email account from my Internet Service Provider, through POP in Mozilla Thunderbird. I find it is probably the best and easiest to use, I like email clients over webmail, altough portability isn't all that great, otherwise it has good features.

I've been using the internet for a long while now, and throughout that time I have switched and experienced many different email providers.

First, I started using the email address that came with my Internet package when I ordered my dialup long ago, which was my email from my ISP. At that time, Netscape Communicator 4.7 was the 'top thing' so I was using that, and I can't remember what email client I used, probably something bundled with Netscape. Who knows...

After a while, I decided to switch to Hotmail. At that time, Hotmail didn't have its blue interface, I can't even remember what interface it did have either. So I stuck with Hotmail, probably for a year or two...

Then the world started to crumble over (or at least mine did) and I started to randomly switch back and forth and back and forth throughout various email account providers, mainly free webmail ones on the internet, like Yahoo, and I used that mail.com thing and many other addresses. It was funny because I used to send out a new email every couple days to all my family & friends stating that I changed my address, once again.

After that, I got more civilized in the email community again, and went back to Hotmail. But not for long, I used Hotmail for a while and decided I didn't like it anymore. Then I moved to Yahoo and sticked with them for a while and back to Hotmail I was. I created a new Hotmail account this time, as my old email address was getting filled with spam (this was before I learned not to enter my email everywhere on the internet). At that time, Hotmail introduced their 250MB of storage or something (before that it was 25MB I think, and my inbox was like at 99% the whole time).

Then I switched to Gmail and used it for a while, but because of its 'automatic' type interface, it wasn't exactly dialup friendly when loading, at least not for me. (BTW, I have 28.8k, not 56k). But at that time I kept using Gmail...

Then back to Yahoo, created a new email address and stuck with them for a while, and then I decided enough is enough. I get a lot of digital camera pictures come to my inbox of family, etc. etc. and it took forever to load it from Yahoo and other webmail providers, so I went back to my ISPs service, and I called them to change my address, because the old one was also filled up with spam.

And that leads me to where I am today... still with my ISP, been with them since about June now, and planning to stick with them for a long while yet. Even though it must download the pictures since its through an email client with POP service before you can even view that message or messages after that, which can be annoying at times, it still does it much faster and less annoying and less hassiling than a webmail service.

Thats about it... wow, I just go on and on about what I've done in the past while in all of my posts, don't I? Heh. 8)

I use Yahoo! Mail because it is a simple page without a lot of HTML and flash so it loads pretty quickly.

I find it easiest to use my website as my email, and use Outlook to process it.

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Anthony Coy High Velocity Media http://hvmdesign.com

I use gmail and yahoo. From what I have experienced I got a lot more spam mail in yahoo.
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well its GMAIL it got everything i need even my domain email servers also hosted by gmail and they also got gmail interface.
*) Interface is awesome very simple and big space for email few text ad's no fancy stuff
*) Email Search Google's indexing technology is there in gmail. nobody is able to match it yet.
*)Space i think i got 2.7GB its more than enough for a normal user
*)Real Time email update - no need to refresh web page it sync with server real time
*) reply and chat integration,
*) Rich Text Editor and HTML support
*) Anti virus and Best SPAM
*) labels are cool to mange emails

HOTMAIL
old interface suxs full time need to refresh webpage to get new mails
live mail new interface get stuck also it take hell of time
no chat integration on email page.
poor junk mail filter and need to do few clicks to open an attachment.

Yahoo
yahoo is not that bad but still its also old style
yahoo new interface rocks with Tabs. i really like it.
im not much into yahoo becoz its junk mail filter is not strong like gmail one.