What kind of email do you have?

I use Gmail.

I was a bit alarmed the last time I tried to make an account – they actually asked for my cell phone number in order to send me a verification text. No thanks. The next time I need to make a new email it will not be Gmail.

I have several e-mail accounts. I have a yahoo, ymail, Gmail, hotmail, and a school account. I also had a few other random ones from years ago that are probably gone now due to inactivity.

I like all of them for different reasons and use each on for different reasons.

@FutureMemory I just made an account with Gmail and they didn’t ask me for my cell phone #. When did you make it?

Have Gmail and couldn’t live without it.

I have a couple of them one with the Air Force and one with hotmail.

Gmail

Yahoo and my own domain.

@ChazMaz How do you get your own domain?

I’m God.

You can create your own domain we have one here at the Air Force Base.

@ChazMaz That’s nice

I use Gmail as my permanent address. That way, if I change my ISP, I don’t have to inform everyone of a new address. I’ve added additional email addresses over time—sometimes with and sometimes without needing to provide my cell phone number.

I use too many. Gmail is my primary account and I have all messages sent to my school e-mail forwarded there. I have a Yahoo! account I created recently for communication with people I only interact with online. I have a hotmail account I used throughout high school.

I also have at least three dummy accounts (two through Gmail and one through Windows Live.)

@muppetish Why do you call them dummy accounts? Is it because everything is automatically forwarded somewhere else? So you can shut down the account and get rid of all the crap that is sent to it? I have a couple of accounts like that. One is for relationships with businesses I buy stuff from. They always start sending spam after that. I’ve got most of it filtered now, but if I want to, I could shut it all off.

I also have another account like that for official business. It is the only account other than my work account in which my real name appears. I could even change my work account if I want, but there are times when you want your correspondents to know who the hell you are. I mean, Wundayatta? Imagine sending that to the IRS.

@muppetish I have dummy accounts too. I have one in yahoo for school memberships, one in hotmail for newsletters, one in aol for fluther and my answer sites. my Gmail is my primary one for school, family, friends etc. i love gmail. at least that’s what i consider dummy accounts

I use GMX though I still have my old gmail account doing nothing but collecting spam. I have a hotmail account so I can use MSN Messenger and a Yahoo account for Yahoo messenger & Flickr. But I don’t actually use those email accounts.

@wundayatta I use two of my dummy accounts for similar reasons as you and @Aesthetic_Mess. Alerts from websites like LiveJournal, newsletters, coupons, spam-but-not-spam kind of stuff is sent to them. If I want to create an account somewhere I’m not sure I want to stick with, I’ll use one of those accounts, too. I could easily delete those accounts and not care about all the messages being sent down the drain. I rarely log-in to check them. I’m sure I have hundreds of messages I won’t read.

My third dummy account was one I created for a character I created. It’s not technically mine. I would write messages to myself in their voice as an exercise. I haven’t used it in a long time. Since I don’t actively use the e-mail for anything, I count it as another dummy account.

I have 3 addresses; one for school, one for formal business, and one for friends and casual use. The latter 2 are both gmail accounts. I also use Mozilla Thunderbird to monitor them all simultaneously.

I have yahoo, hotmail and googlemail (although I rarely use that one) and also a work one on Windows Outlook.

I have Hotmail and Gmail and I use them for different things. (And of course I have my Stanford email address).

I’m not crazy about GMAIL. I use Apple Mail L at home and the latest ver of Outlook at the office. Of them all, I prefer Outlook.

I use Gmail, through their website (as opposed to having a pop client like Outlook or Thunderbird). I have multiple accounts feeding into one, and a lot of Labels involved because it’s hard to find things through the Fluther spam.

I love Gmail and pretty much all Google products. Yahoo mail and Hotmail just seem to pale in comparison, and those are the only other big names I can think of for web mail.

Gmail for friends and family, Yahoo for websites and such.