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[-Sky-]

I think I'd go for gmail and/or Windows Live. Although I have used Windows Live hotmail for more then 3 years and have had no problems whatsoever. It's great.

[Xalor]

GMail is my favorite because of its elegant simplicity. I enjoy using Google's interface. The best part is that I can search through my email instead of going through it one by one. I don't like offline clients so I don't have problems with its lack of full cooperation with traditional email methods of Outlook and Live Mail. Its fast, you have a loading bar, your email rechecks automatically and rather fast. It has a whole slew of features, that allow it to integrate well with other programs on in the Google Suite. You have the ability to open documents on the web, decreasing load time. The only problem I have is with the lack of a fully functional folder system. I have to manually use labels and its rather hard to organize emails from friends and emails from online contacts. I find that this is the biggest flaw, and that sometimes forces people who don't like using multiple addresses to stick with Hotmail over GMail, but he Search features is one of the best for anyone I believe. Also the fact that you can log into Aim, MSN, GTalk and other IM Clients while on the web, and chat realtime, through email messages.

[flashy]

Well ive been with GMail now since 2004 - best service by far.

Unlike Yahoo!, Google isnt cluttered and everything is just so incredably neat and tidy. And the great thing about Google Mail is that you can have custom themes with FireFox!
Plus aswell there is a mail notifier as a firefox addon too

When i joined many years ago Google was only giving out 3GB of space. And now they are giving away 7GB!
3 gig let alone will last you a lifetime.

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However though, i reckon that the Email that you are hosted on many hosts are just perfect - you have full control over them, and you can even create your own webmail

[zakaluka]

As many others have said, I definitely prefer GMail for the simplicity and speed. In addition, all the new lab features they keep adding are extremely helpful (like advanced keyboard shortcuts). The tagging system is fantastic, and I greatly prefer it over just folders. Their '+' feature (i.e. with the account user@gmail.com, you can send yourself e-mails from user+digg@gmail.com, user+trap17@gmail.com, user+<xyz>@gmail.com - you get the idea). This gives you an unlimited number of accounts that can be easily filtered based on the tag after the '+' sign.

All this combines to make a really fantastic e-mail service. However, I still maintain a yahoo e-mail, for all those times when you need to give out an address that you know will be spammed .

Regards,

z.