New email address required

Sparky1234

Sparky1234

Sparky1234

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It’s such a pain changing email addresses, but the 10mb (!!!) limit on my current email account has just become unmanageable recently. I really need to find a new email account – does anyone have any recommendations? Should I just head over to gmail signup page – or are there other potential alternatives?
 
gmail, yahoo, live.co.uk

All have large space as far as I know.

Or if you have the money, you can set up a website and have an email at your own domain.

InvG
 
Yeah your own domain is the way to go. Although I do have a gmail account as well which is quite good but I find it blocks a lot of attachments e.g. exe and msi
 
I like GMail, i can check it wherever, and have it set to Outlook too.

The storage it has keeps increasing too.
 
Lamo said:
Yeah your own domain is the way to go. Although I do have a gmail account as well which is quite good but I find it blocks a lot of attachments e.g. exe and msi
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I have one hotmail, one live.co.uk and also as many as I like on my own site. But then I get my hosting from a mate's company, so it's free, so the costs is only domain name, which makes it easier. :)

My hotmail one is my main MSN one, my live one is my more 'professional' MSN one, and obviously my domain one is my main personal one now. Also have a uni one, but that's uni stuff and is naff.

InvG
 
I have a domain/hosting account with 10 of my own email aliases and it cost me £12 for 2 years.

Not the largest of web space and bandwidth for the website but it will do until it has been fully created.
 
In order of preference;

Gmail, my own (via outlook etc), yahoo - and way down the list is hotmail due to the heap-load of unreliability and bad spam filtering I've experienced. Even further down that list, right in the "dont even bother" section is AOL mail.
 
I have my own domain, which I forward mails from to a gmail account and my work account. If I ever move jobs I'll just change the forwarding.
 
I find the problem with having your own domain is if you wish to use webmail the system is normally not on par with any of the big names.

p.s. fixed appauling typos sorry
 
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Wicksta said:
I have my own domain, which I forward mails from to a gmail account and my work account. If I ever move jobs I'll just change the forwarding.
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Bry said:
I the fidn the problem with havign your own domain is if you wish to use webmail the system is normally not on par with any of the big names
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This is why I now use google apps. Instead of forwarding mail to gmail or other webmail account you change the MX record on your domain to a google address and your mail goes straight there. Unfortunately you can't set it to go to an existing gmail account without a forwarder, but it wasn't long before I was used to just using the google apps login instead.

My email is here now, and this covers my two domains, both for free (can have more than 2), including catch-all addresses of course:
http://mail.google.com/a/blamethepixel.com/
Also has options to set up as a subdomain of your own domain. The spam filter is much better than spam-assassin for me too.

"You are currently using 70 MB (1%) of your 6527 MB." "Spam (18419)"

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I use my Gmail and .Mac accounts, never been one for Hotmail.

Both are IMAP, and forwarded to my phone automagically :D
 
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