Features - QOTW: Email - how do you get yours?

[Englander]

Started with hotmail, but it is now sitting there with 5 or 6 thousand unread spam emails (Facebook notifications and forum thread subscriptions etc) and my main email is with yahoo mail.

[matts-uk]

Exchange 2003 server in the airing cupboard. Mac mail on the desktop, native iPhone and iPad on the road, Outlook Web Access on Windows PCs. Hotmail address for testing and any registrations I think will produce spam. Miss the calendering and contacts in Outlook/Entourage but unprepared to jump through the Microsoft version compatibility hoops.

[Ciber]

Gmail, as that works across browser, tablet and phone. And it's good at protecting me from harmless and harmful spam. After I ditched live mail for my personal email I haven't looked back.

[vinnyT]

I use both Gmail and T'bird for my emailing needs.

[dfour]

Thunderbird all the way. set to collect from all my online email accounts.

[GravitySmacked]

Desktop Outlook and my own email domain.

[5teviewonders]

Outlook on my PC but i rarely use it as my emails come to my phone and i end up checking them on there instead. Will use outlook to send an email though.

[jim]

Going a day without Outlook and IMAP gives me withdrawal symptoms.

[MrBozack]

HTTP or POP3!

On a side note, my friend uses on of those ye olde Amstrad Emailer things that could send emails by phone! LOOOL

[ET3D]

I have my mail forwarded to gmail, and I read that using Thunderbird on my desktop, the gmail app on my phone and the web interface elsewhere. I still have some other mail services, and my mvps.org and Yahoo addresses are used for some things (but so little that I tend to forget about them).

[=assassin=]

I have Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail email accounts, but my main one is my Hotmail account, so I'll be very annoyed if I get forced over to an Outlook email address at some point in the future, as alot of stuff would need to be changed. I browse only through Firefox. Hate the Outlook desktop application. I've always considered Outlook an easy way in for viruses tbh. Forced to use Outlook at work though.

[Bluecube]

OSX Mail does the job for me along with Mail on the iPad and Android's built in app on my phone. I use IMAP to keep track of all eleven of my email accounts - mostly business with a couple of personal ones! Although I have a Gmail account, I've never used the web interface and never intend to.

[jnutt]

Outlook 2010 (I get office cheap from work). Also Gmail. Largely ignore Hotmail.

[McPhee]

Gmail, as that works across browser, tablet and phone. And it's good at protecting me from harmless and harmful spam. After I ditched live mail for my personal email I haven't looked back.

Do you find Gmail to be a bit... aggressive with it's spam filtering? I use both Gmail and Live mail and Gmail seems to catch all of the spam, but at the expense of legit emails (I've noticed the majority of 'spam' isn't, meaning I have to check my spam folder regularly). On the other hand, my Live Mail account catches most of the spam and nothing of the rest. I prefer the occasional 'herbal viagra' email to having to manually verify spam mail a few times a week.

[alpha channel]

Thunderbird for my website(s) related e-mail, yahoo is my main web based e-mail (had it since the late nineties) and hotmail for those things that might generate spam (and gmail but I never use it, only have it thanks to my Samsung Galaxy S wi-fi 5).

[peterb]

Thunderbird and Evolution to my own Imap server and one commercial mailbox. Commercial mailbox uses horde, but I very rarely use a web interface as I get mail on the move through a smartphone.

Never used hotmail much, partly through lack of requirement and the microsoft live stuff. I avoid gmail for similar reasons.