What is the best email account to use?

n57602000

I am currently with Yahoo for personal and ebay email but not all my emails are getting through to customers about 5 to 10%. This has got me in trouble couple times with them not getting any reply. Getting in trouble once is very annoying at the moment with ebay. Its fine me selling over 200 items in a month 199 positive but that 1 negative due to email not being recieved causes so many problems. Sorry going on with an ebay frustration dont get me started on the new feedback process god how stupid!!

So what email provided do you think is the best?

Geddes

From what ive heard from reviews i read in a magazine a few weeks back google mail was quite highly rated. I haven't personally used it myself but from what i've heard it's supposed to be good.

S0litaire

If you can afford it:
buy yourself a domain name and an email addon for it.

Domain can be from £5 for a co.uk address + £10 for a mailbox per year.
you can pick up the mail from anywhere and it looks a bit better than a yahoo addy

n57602000

Very true i have had an email web domain address. But i cant access it on my mobile phone as easy as i could with yahoo. Google Mail i am bit about it too pretty cool functions.

S0litaire

Most modern mobile can pick up POP3 Mail quite easily. (well the last 3 nokia's I've had could)

ukmike

Mail.com is free & reliable,+ looks more professional than a lot of web based emails.----
http://www.mail.com/

arealbasketcase

Oh this is sad, I'm now so addicted I'm checking in at work but heyho!

I use Google mail and I'm not really too impressed, it's ok but I use Lycos too and I like that. With Lycos you can set up lots of folders - yeah I know you can do that loads of places - but with Lycos when an email comes in you can then move it to the folder you want - yes I know you can do that with others - but with Lycos it gives you the option to "always have messages from this person go to that folder".

I can't get into hotmail or yahoo at work, server blocks them but I can still get into Lycos and Google.

ukmike

oop's.posted twice

isofa

For freebies, GMail (GoogleMail) is pretty much unbeatable.

esuhl

GMX does it for me... Nice and simple: it can check other POP3/IMAP accounts for you, allows POP3/IMAP access via an email client (like the one on your mobile phone, or whatever client on your PC), and you can even set up aliases so that several email addresses (e.g. ralph@gmx.com, ralph@gmx.co.uk, ernie@gmx.com, etc.) all get sent to one inbox.

http://mail-eu.gmx.com/

weegie.geek

S0litaire wrote: »

Most modern mobile can pick up POP3 Mail quite easily. (well the last 3 nokia's I've had could)

Most phones can, but it depends on the network, and whether you're on contract or not. O2 PAYG for instance only allows http traffic, POP3/IMAP/etc won't work.

n57602000 wrote: »

Very true i have had an email web domain address. But i cant access it on my mobile phone as easy as i could with yahoo. Google Mail i am bit about it too pretty cool functions.

Depending on who's hosting it, you'll often get a webmail interface to access your email on. It'll churn through the bandwidth considerably more than raw pop/imap access though.

Getting your own domain's probably the best idea though. A tenner a year and it looks way more professional. Worth it for the peace of mind that your emails are getting there.