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gmail every time. I do all mine on line which makes it available from any computer and use the Calendar, Google Docs and Picasa which are all available at a click from the email page. I use Google Chrome as my main browser.
I see Outlook mentioned - do you mean Outlook Express? That is free. A good "on computer" email client is Thunderbird and that is also free. The great thing about web mail is that you don't lose the address when you change ISPs. I learned that the hard way when Virgin took over ntl and just simply shut my ntl address down. Got rid of the mingeing idiots as soon as I could and ma now with O2 which is superb and uses just the same phone line (we don't have cable in this area).
Virtually all the spam I get comes in from an old email address on Onetel which is "harvested" for me by Gmail and I do have to check it before emptying the spam box, just occasionally something I want crops up there.0 -
Apart from google they pretty much all suck. However I find their spam filters catch everything.0
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Hotmail is great I use the option where anything not in your address book goes to spam and I think they filter most of the spam before it even gets to you.0
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thomas01155 wrote: »Hotmail is great
Maybe in some freaky backwards universe it is.0 -
The only problem I had was when i couldn't access my email from a couple of hours but that has only happened once in 6 years of using them.0
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No IMAP access and smaller attachment limits means it loses for me.
I have had a Hotmail account for about 10 years now, but since Gmail came out, the only thing it gets used for is messenger.0 -
Hotmail is FAR too slow for my liking. It takes a few seconds to open an email for goodness sake.0
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No IMAP access and smaller attachment limits means it loses for me.
I have had a Hotmail account for about 10 years now, but since Gmail came out, the only thing it gets used for is messenger.
I use gmail for what instant chat I do as well - it's built into the mail progHate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
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Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:0 -
judderman62 wrote: »I use gmail for what instant chat I do as well - it's built into the mail prog
As do I, but unfortunately, not everyone has seen the light.0 -
As do I, but unfortunately, not everyone has seen the light.
haha yes I know - I haveone frined who particularly moved to gmail because she liked the instant chat and another friend whom I cajoled into signing up to gmail so we could instant chat
:rotfl::rotfl: Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
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Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:0
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