Which email to use?

[mycarsavw]

Gmail's not for you then.

Have you tried Yahoo mail?

[scaryjim]

... Gmail does folders but calls it labels. ...

GMail's labels aren't actually folders - it doesn't change the actual storage of the emails. It's very easy to accidentally delete stuff if you're relying on labels to keep it safe.

Outlook's folders are done pretty well.

... I'm at 30GB on Yahoo and 5GB already on Gmail, after less than a year.

what on earth do you keep in your email account to chew up that much storage? That's kind of insane for email - I don't think you'll find many free email services that offer 35GB+ storage for free accounts. Certainly outlook.com doesn't offer anywhere near that much. You might need to think about some kind of paid service, whether that's email, cloud storage or something else...

An as an aside:

... Have you tried Yahoo mail?

I assume you forgot the sarcasm tags on this...?


EDIT:

Turns out mail.com (https://www.mail.com/mail/) offers a free service with unlimited storage. No idea what their service is like though, as I've never used it. But it might be the only option matching your storage requirements - the vast majority of free services offer 5GB at best...

[Ttaskmaster]

what on earth do you keep in your email account to chew up that much storage?

Err... emails?
I have invoices and things, legal documents, photos, stuff like that. A lot of it is kept as evidence/audit trails, although I think Yahoo also includes my photo account in that space.

Outlook is sounding pretty good, though.

[scaryjim]

Err... emails?
I have invoices and things, legal documents, photos, stuff like that. A lot of it is kept as evidence/audit trails, although I think Yahoo also includes my photo account in that space.

Outlook is sounding pretty good, though.

It's a nice interface, and it's easy enough to set it up on mail programs on mobile.

As I say though, you won't get anywhere near enough storage as standard, and you'll probably have to get used to moving photos, documents and other large attachments into OneDrive - although the free version of that only comes with 5GB of storage. If you've got an Office 365 subscription you do get a OneDrive upgrade to 1TB - depends on how much you want Office 365 though, I guess! Otherwise it's about £2 a month for 50GB of storage, which really isn't cheap...

[mycarsavw]

GMail's labels aren't actually folders - it doesn't change the actual storage of the emails. It's very easy to accidentally delete stuff if you're relying on labels to keep it safe.

Thankfully nothing truly deletes until you empty the bin (or 30 days elapse.)

Outlook's folders are done pretty well.

I refused to use Outlook for years, I even forced my entire office to use Thunderbird. A recent merger made me reevaluate things and we're now into the second year with Office365/Outlook. I have no idea why I held off for so long.

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I assume you forgot the sarcasm tags on this...?

I missed the sarcasm tag, yes

I do it myself all the time. I have a service I love that does something that annoys me enough to want to see what else is out there. I spend ages trying to find a replacement. More often than not there's nothing else that does every single thing I like about the original service I'm trying to replace and I end up staying.

I have something similar to do myself in a years time when my current car is up for renewal. I've been window shopping for months trying to find a replacement that does all the things I love about the one I currently have. I've come to the conclusion that there's only one out there and it's the one I'm already driving.

[satrow]

I think mail.com and gmx.com are both now back under the 1+1 umbrella, where they began.

I'm still with Yahoo, my logs show I changed my passwords there 4 times during 'the year of the hacks', including a few weeks after the latest reported one. I have noticed an increase in spam over the last few months (now maybe 6-8 per day) but I'm sure that's down to kiddies following up on the reports and they're all auto-detected and binned anyway.

I'm also with GMX and back up my Yahoo mail there, with Outlook + Gmail in reserve.