I use Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Aim. Too many, probably Yahoo may eventually go, although I do like maintaining the IM account. I can access Google, Hotmail and Aim through Entourage. That way everything is on the server and I have the convenience of using an email client at home. Aim is good because it is IMAP. The only free IMAP service that I know about. I do get lots of spam at Yahoo and Google, but the spam filters are wonderful and I very rarely see it. And it doesn’t filter out good mail.
I don’t understand the negs against .mac mail. No ads, no banners, almost no spam at all. Plus with all the other benefits of the account it is really good. A bit overpriced but if you buy it at one of the big box stores you can get them to discount it. Yahoo mail and Hotmail are just plain horrible. Gmail is good and excite.com is good but too much spam. Never had an isp mail that was worth more than a few weeks of frustration before getting rid of it.
I use GMail and Yahoo for web mail, and GMail is by far my favourite of the two. In fact, my Yahoo account is little more than a spam trap now. GMail got it right. It gave use gigabytes of storage at a time when everyone else was limiting us to a few megabytes. GMail’s search capabilities are phenomenal, and the simple interface is clean and intuitive.
I use GMail and Yahoo for web mail, and GMail is by far my favourite of the two. In fact, my Yahoo account is little more than a spam trap now. GMail got it right. It gave use gigabytes of storage at a time when everyone else was limiting us to a few megabytes. GMail’s search capabilities are phenomenal, and the simple interface is clean and intuitive.
Have you seen the demo of MobileMe web mail? This is why Apple wants Safari Everywhere™ these days. They’re making the web browsing experience on Safari better than on MSIE or FF, Mac, Windows, iPod and iPhone, and that makes products and services from Apple look even more inviting.
How many email accounts do you have? If you’re like most of us, more than one. Some of us have many email accounts.
What about free web mail accounts? I’ve had a Yahoo email account since the early days of free email. These days it catches mostly spam.
Who’s got the best web browser email? Google? Yahoo? MSN Hotmail? .Mac? Don’t get me started on .Mac.
Don’t get me started. I have so many of each I can’t keep track. Most I can get on my Mac’s Mail, but some, like Yahoo, are web-based only. Even my school prefers we use web-based email. I’ve got Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and two or three others. There’s an old saying, “If you haven’t worn something in a year you should probably give it away.“ Same goes for email accounts.
Google. They haven’t offended me yet. Yahoo I think is only slightly less irritating than Hotmail.
Here in France there are many places with PC’s connected to the internet, so if you’re not carrying your notebook it’s easy to check mail. I love Google, but still maintain a Yahoo! account. One of the major issues is dealing with Windows in French and the French keyboard.
Ugh.
Rather than use public locations and the French keyboard I would rather have a new MacBook Air and carry it with me everywhere.
Anyone here ever try Zimbra? They have an open source email and calendar management system, as well as a commercial version. It’s all web based and works on Mac, Windows, Linux and probably other flavors. I thought they were owned by Yahoo!
That kind of thing is yet another evolution toward the browser as the new “desktop” of the 21st century. That’s what Apple wants to do with Safari. It’s what Google wants to do with Chrome. It’s what Microsoft tried to prevent Netscape from doing, because it negates the need for the OS to be dominant.
If the browser is where you go to do most of your work do you need an expensive Mac? Do you need a PC running Windows?
I’m convinced that it’s the future of desktop publishing at a basic level.
I still want everything local. I will not use web based tools for my work. I just won’t. Most of my work is not done in the browser anyway. Most of my play is however.
Google. They haven’t offended me yet. Yahoo I think is only slightly less irritating than Hotmail.
That says it for me, too. Google is less offending, but with a good feature set. Yahoo! is offensive, yes, but Microsoft’s Hotmail is the most blatant, horrible user interface.
Truly, Microsoft doesn’t get it.
Google all the way!! Uh, wait. I do like MobileMe’s web interface. It reminds me of Mail on my Mac.
Is there anybody that uses ONLY web email and not Apple’s OS X Mail?
I say that because my significant other never uses the email program on her PC, either. It’s always the web mail, whether for Google or for company email.
Is there anybody that uses ONLY web email and not Apple’s OS X Mail?
I say that because my significant other never uses the email program on her PC, either. It’s always the web mail, whether for Google or for company email.
Me. After trying and trying to get Mail to do something, anything, I finally gave up. Turns out I’m supposed to be paying for these “free” e-mail accounts in order to get them to forward to my computer. Yeah guys, that’ll happen real soon!
(Of course, now Gmail will work without paying for it, but A: I don’t like Gmail, and 2: I’m just in the habit of using webmail.)
I use webmail for things like yahoo, although now I use my iPhone for that mostly. I do use mail for my main ISP provided account though. Some of these isps have relatively draconian purge cycles and I like to keep email so I use it mostly as a mail saving tool.
Google Mail all the way. I gave up on Yahoo! a few years ago. My wife and I are living in France and about to get the first Apple Store in the country right down the street from where we live. My only complaint is that I have to use a PC sometimes at work and those French keyboards are a nightmare.
