Email no longer free

cookie365

spadoosh wrote: »

I see a lot of job application forms and cant help but think badly of the people who use anything other than google (and its variants) or hotmail.

Sounds like a dreadful place to work.

RumRat

spadoosh wrote: »

There are other email providers?

I see a lot of job application forms and cant help but think badly of the people who use anything other than google (and its variants) or hotmail. ('@outllook.... dude you set that up on your pager?')

OH has an @live email address, i shudder every time i hear it.


Apparently 50% of email domains are @gmail. Yahoo and hotmail take 2/3 with ~7% each.

Over sensitive?;)
I use GMX as it just sounds more grown up and it's as good a gmail.

jamesperrett

neilmcl wrote: »

Get you own domain, then use email forwarding to which ever ISP you're currently with.

But then you'll be paying for that domain - the OP wanted free email. However, I find it useful to have my own domain where I can give out different email addresses for different purposes.

forgotmyname

spadoosh wrote: »

There are other email providers?

I see a lot of job application forms and cant help but think badly of the people who use anything other than google (and its variants) or hotmail. ('@outllook.... dude you set that up on your pager?')

OH has an @live email address, i shudder every time i hear it.


Apparently 50% of email domains are @gmail. Yahoo and hotmail take 2/3 with ~7% each.

50% are gmail. Yeah because virtually every android device automatically puts that when you register it.
Do you have a google account..select no and it offers up a nice new gmail account.
I have several gmail accounts.
I have yahoo accounts for my spammy stuff.
I have AOL account because i was a member for a long time.
I have my own domains with email also.

You think someone with a gmail account is better than a novelty aol or yahoo name? Maybe you need to check how many scammers use gmail accounts?

boliston

spadoosh wrote: »

There are other email providers?

I see a lot of job application forms and cant help but think badly of the people who use anything other than google (and its variants) or hotmail. ......

Surely anyone even slightly IT literate would have their OWN email address rather than google/hotmail/etc ?

Alter_ego

Mail.com has been good for me and free for the last 12 yrs.

debitcardmayhem

boliston wrote: »

Surely anyone even slightly IT literate would have their OWN email address rather than google/hotmail/etc ?

Surely you mean anyone who wants to seem professional... or is that just me :cool:

GingerBob_3

Thanks everyone for the advice and recommendations. I have been wondering about my own domain for a while now. Maybe this is the time to take the plunge. I'm also seriously looking at MAIL.COM with maybe GMAIL as a backup. This everyone.net appears not to have a facility to bulk export the emails, so I may be stuck with forwarding them all. Thanks, again. GB.

neilmcl

jamesperrett wrote: »

But then you'll be paying for that domain - the OP wanted free email. However, I find it useful to have my own domain where I can give out different email addresses for different purposes.

Not free, but hardly expensive.

neilmcl

boliston wrote: »

Surely anyone even slightly IT literate would have their OWN email address rather than google/hotmail/etc ?

I have my own domain email addresses as well as potential "throw away" hotmail.com/gmail.com and live.com addresses. Very useful to have a wide range of addresses should any get hacked/spammed. Anyone "slightly IT literate" would be very foolish to have a single set of addresses within the same domain.