Ask dotTechies: What e-mail service (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) do you use the most?
November 13, 2009 40
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E-mail is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular, if not the most popular, medium for communication today. So, I am curious, what e-mail service do dotTechies mainly use? Now I know many people have multiple e-mails from many different e-mail services. Please select the service that you use for your main e-mail; the e-mail you check the most often:
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If you have any thoughts on this topic, feel free to share them below. However please, please no one post their actual e-mail in the comments for everyone to see.
I find it interesting that both here and on the browser poll I use the least used of the big ones.
Is it just me or is the inbox.com receiving a negative percentage?
@Samuel: I am guessing you use… Hotmail? =D.
@Bug?: It was not just you but it seems to be back at 0% now =P.
@Ashraf: Yup! (I’m an MS kind of guy :D)
@Samuel: Figures =P. To be honest I also voted for Hotmail because, well, Hotmail was the second e-mail service I used and I just can’t get rid of that e-mail address – it is too important.
@Ashraf: Same for me, but it was my first. (in fact alot of my email accounts are hotmail, but that because they’re from MS Small Business)
@Samuel: Yahoo was my first but I quickly changed after the huge amount of spam it got.
The only real problem I have with Hotmail now is that it won’t let me open e-mails in new windows cause of JavaScript.
@Ashraf: I rarly get smap on Hotmail. The opening in a new window problem I agree could be anoying but I use Outlook, so no problem there.
@Samuel: I would do the same but I find webmail to be more convenient than Outlook.
@Ashraf: I use to, but the problem was I had too many emails. With web clients I can only have so many filters and only so many folders, and I can’t put folders in folders. In Outlook I can, so I decided to use Outlook, though I don’t have it delete emails from the server so I can check them from the web client.
@Samuel: That is how I do it for the e-mails I do use with Outlook.
The only real fear I have with Outlook is I may accidentally reply with the wrong e-mail once in a while and that can be bad.
@Ashraf: But you could have that problem on the web client too :S
@Samuel: If I connected multiple e-mail addresses to the same webmail inbox, yes. But I don’t for the most part. The only one that I do I can reply from without fear because of how the receiving server recognizes my e-mail.
@Ashraf: So in that case its more how you use Outlook and the web client then a problem with how they work.
@Samuel: Um. Sure I guess. I do accept the fact that I don’t use Outlook even close to its full potential.