The one I like to use the most is Yahoo. I heard Gmail isn't as safe as it as cracked up to be. I know for sure that AOL, AIM, and NETSCAPE mail services take too long to load and will lag your computer.

Which one do you like the most?

i use bluebottle, http://www.bluebottle.com

if you set it up right, u dont get spam, but if its set up like me, you get about 10 a day.

I like Yahoo! best too. It has a nice inbox size, loads quickly, and your account also allows you to access all the other Yahoo! services. It also allows you to use POP3 and SMTP, and if you do use that, then there will be no ads attached to the end of the emails you send. And Gmail (and Google), apparently, aren't that safe, and some reports claim that Google tracks your information. I have AOL (as in, the ISP), so I have AOL email too, but to access it through the website itself, it takes forever. Hotmail (now Windows Live Mail) is okay; it loads fairly fast now, but I still don't like their junk filter. It blocks out too many emails and makes life annoying (i.e.: you always have to check back with the person through some other form of communication to see whether they got the email or not). As for any other email services, I can't really say since I haven't used them thoroughly yet.

Yep, Yahoo! has to be the best mainstream email service, in my opinion. =) Yahoo!! xD

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I use both live-mail and gmail and I do tend to prefer gmail. Gmail is fast (faster than live mail at least) and it's easy to work with. Adding a contacts in live mail is kinda old-skool, in gmail you start typing the name or adress and gmail gives you a list of possible contacts ... nice . One downside about gmail is that you can only download ~200 messages through POP3...
I don't know about safety and I don't realy care too much about it, if they want, they'll get it anyway .
If it weren't for the 5 adresses I already have, I'd make myself a Yahoo-account (I do start to like Yahoo! since I tried their search functions).

That is interesting, I've really never heard of bluebottle. On a scale from 1-10, how badly does it lag/load?

My choice of Hotmail is more historical than anything else. I setup my Hotmail account just after Microsoft bought Hotmail which was many years ago. Since then I have used it as my primary account for just about everything I do. All of the other accounts that I have are all forwarded to the Hotmail account.

I use Hotmail not because I think it is the best but because it would be almost impossible to switch. I still have contacts from over 10 years ago that occasionally send me a message. Microsoft could certainly make me happier but it works good enough to bare the pain. The only feature that I wish they had was forwarding.

Personally, I prefer Yahoo. Their mail now has unlimited storage and the new Yahoo beta has a great interface. You can simply just drag and drop your e-mails to move them anywhere you want. Everything is neat and simple in beta, but the older version of Yahoo is customizable in color and avatar. A win-win choice I say!

Since I use MSN Messenger all the time, I started of with a Hotmail address, but soon started to hate it. First of all, the inbox would always open in Internet Explorer when opened through MSN Messenger - and I find that really annoying. Furthermore, the old inbox version was slow and messy, and the new one isn't better at all. And finally, the spam filters. If I don't get more than 5 spam mails in my inbox, I'm happy.

I think all those reasons are enough for me to try GMail - and then stick with it. During the two (more, actually) years I've been using it, there were no complains. Such a simple and fast system, but has everything a average user needs. One thing that improves its score is the fact that by logging into your GMail account, you are also logged into all the web sites that use Google Accounts (and vice versa). Why would I login separately fo GMail, Google Adsense, iGoogle? And oh, Google as a search engine beats MSN and Yahoo. Together.

for design, i LOVE yahoo webmail! it looks really cool. and unlimited storage now.

actually, i might move to it LOL! it seems cool enough. i have like heaps of yahoo accounts, i can never remember them though for some reason.

I love the GMail system, hell my domain name's mail service is handled by Google through Google Apps, so of course I love it, else why would I bother Google Apps on my website!

I also used Windows Live Messenger too (the "standard" in Toronto), so I just tag my email address to a Microsoft Passport account.

Plus, I don't like Yahoo mail too much, especially their new design because it's quite slow to load on my desktop, and not much on my Mac. My ISP partnered with Yahoo, so I get all the Yahoo premium services...

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