Need advice on changing email address

[snapdragen]

As much as I dislike gmail (I know, I'm in a minority...) I would go with them. The spam filter is hundreds of times superior to Yahoo.

[kelownagirl]

I have an ISP and gmail. I use gmail for anything that might get spam. Only my close friends and family use my ISP. I like gmail and I actually set it up to forward to my ISP so I don't actually have to even log in to gmail if I don't want to. I can send and receive gmail from my regular mail account if I want to.

[RoadRaven]

My daughter has recently changed to gMail and loves it for all the reasons others have listed above.

She has about 7 emails with both ISP and non-ISP - gMail means everything comes to one place, she doesn't loose anything and the spam-filter is one of the best about.

[Tuckervill]

gmail gmail gmail! Love it. I never check any of my others, because they go to gmail.

The advertising cracks me up some times. When I go to the spam folder, I get recipes for Spam dishes. lol.

Karen

[Grog]

I have always been wary of free email services. Email is so important to me that I feel that it's a service I want to pay for, and not depend on someone else's business for.

The domain name corresponding to my last name has been bought by netidentity.com (a service of Tucows.com, a Canadian company). So I pay about $20 a year for myfirstname@mylastname.com . For another $25 I get myfirstname.mylastname.com which I am not really using but 10 years ago I had a blog and I like the archive to remain accessible somehow.

I access it through POP or through a web interface.

Overall it's been pretty good, and I hardly receive any spam. However these last few months they have had a series of technical issues, including one recently that lasted three days. I thought that sucked pretty badly, but the same happened to my university last year. Tucows gave me a 2-month credit and apologized profusely. Oh well. So I don't know if I really want to recommend them, but you can be aware they're out there. You can check if they have your last name by just typing: www.yourlastname.com or .net and see what happens.

I've had this address for over 5 years I think.

[Chile Pepper]

The domain name corresponding to my last name has been bought by netidentity.com (a service of Tucows.com, a Canadian company).

I am so glad you cleared that up. I couldn't figure out who owned me! It made no sense at all--but now I see the netidentity logo. Case solved.

[OakLeaf]

okay I had to look - "mylastname.com" is a German manufacturer of industrial baking machines! Their website is full of illustrations of cookies, wafers and ice cream cones. I knew there was a reason for my sweet tooth