Best free email account ?

Ice_2

I have about 10 gmail accounts 1 main one for official use and the other's go with thing's like mse/ myspace / freecycle /and the like's I also have about 10 yahoo account's which I use the same...I have an official one with bt but never use it...as if I move isp I'll lose it anyway so why bother...I also have one main one for windows live it's name.surname@live.co.uk which is free as I have vista...I use this for microsoft...and I have a windows mail one...used to be hotmail which is still free with vista...name.surname@hotmail.com and name.surname@msn.com which are all free with vista...so why do you say they are not free...you can still get free one's...:D

eyelinerprincess

I have four email addys, two hotmail, two gmail. The first hotmail one is general crap, second is soley for ebay/paypal, first gmail account is for job hunting, second is for comps and freebies and stuff.

superscaper

I think I beat you all again. I have over 300 email addresses set up on my domain (I usually give a unique one to everyone although I occasionally use a gmail address temporarily or if it's very likely to attract spam).

eyelinerprincess

Must take you ages to check them all

superscaper

eyelinerprincess wrote: »

Must take you ages to check them all

Nope they all forward to one root address which is the one Outlook accesses. All I see is one inbox of email coming in (and no spam). On the three occasions I've had phishing emails I could see straight away in the email address it was to who had passed on my info. I informed that company (with absolute proof they'd passed on my details) and I delete that email address and forget about that company or replace it with another unique address if I still want email from that company. May sound like a lot of hassle but it's taken me far less time than anyone I know who has to set up spam filters, delete spam that gets through daily and checking spam folders for false positives.

Ice_2

my first email address I got while beta testing gmail has just started getting spam which is soooo annoying...as I don't usually get spam...:mad:

superscaper

Ice wrote: »

my first email address I got while beta testing gmail has just started getting spam which is soooo annoying...as I don't usually get spam...:mad:

I'm not so bothered about my gmail getting spam as I only treat it as an auxilliary email system and kind of a spam trap in itself. My main ones have always seemed to get spam (I also had them since the beta days, so I do realise and sympathise for you, not to mention extremely impressed you managed to keep it spam free for all that time).

BritBrat

I think I beat you all again. I have over 300 email addresses set up on my domain (I usually give a unique one to everyone although I occasionally use a gmail address temporarily or if it's very likely to attract spam).

You don't beat me, last time I counted I had 500 yahoo accounts and I have made more since.

I have also lost a few, some hacked some deleted by Yahoo and some frozen for 20 years or so.

No I don't use them for Email, well not many I use them for Yahoo games (spades) I have every rank from 3500 down to 2000.

So if you ever wonder why a name is not available it is because of people like me, but I am only a lightweight I know people who have 1000's.

superscaper

BritBrat wrote: »

You don't beat me, last time I counted I had 500 yahoo accounts and I have made more since.

I have also lost a few, some hacked some deleted by Yahoo and some frozen for 20 years or so.

No I don't use them for Email, well not many I use them for Yahoo games (spades) I have every rank from 3500 down to 2000.

Well at least I use every single one of mine actively at the moment for receiving email. I used to do something similar for needing unique email addresses to gain benefit from offers like accumulating point etc but I can't be bothered nowadays. I've only got one yahoo account though, and I only really use that to access yahoo groups etc and don't even use it for email.

I suppose if I really wanted to I could create any number more on my domain and multiply that by the 15 domains or so I have, but I currently create addresses for specific purposes and to receive actual email.

BritBrat

Could these names become valuable?

Maybe one day.