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    • Beka27
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        What does everyone on here use?  Do you like it?  Easy to navigate?  Minimum spam?

        We are needing to change our emails soon b/c we’ve decided to switch internet providers (got a great deal on phone/cable/internet).  I’ve been using the same company for years, along with THEIR domain.  That was probably not the smartest idea b/c now I have to get a NEW email account and somehow change everything over (like most people, we do everything online: bills, banking, all of my school correspondence, etc…)  I do not want to use the new provider’s domain as my MAIN account b/c I’ll be in the same situation in a few years when we shop around for another good deal.

        My brother recommends Google/Gmail… I set up an account on there and it seems pretty good, but I’m confused about there being a lack of a homepage.  My old email was thru the phone company and Yahoo. On there I had a homepage with weather, bookmarks, celebrity gossip (lol!), political blogs, and some of my other interests…  Does Gmail not have that or am I missing it?  I’m especially concerned about Bookmarks, I have a rather extensive list of Bookmarks on Yahoo, I’d be lost without my “internet roadmap”.  ;o)

        I also set up a free Yahoo account, and it’s similar to my old email, but now I’m hearing that they are always inundated with spam.  Same with Hotmail, I heard they have tons of spam.

        Thoughts?

        And if anyone has had to switch a long-time email account, is there any easy way to do, any special trick I should know about?


      • skibunny8503
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          I have 2 emails, one is through earthlink but I don’t know if they do free accounts or not because it was my parents’ internet service and now ours. My other email is through MSN’s hotmail, which is free. I don’t get any spam in my inbox, it all goes to my junk box. Easy to navigate and is pretty nice. My husband has yahoo and he gets TONS of spam.


        • Barbie
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            Well I SWEAR by Gmail. I absolutely love it. You have basically unlimited storage space so you can keep all the emails you want. Attachments are super easy to send/receive. Also, Gmail groups similar emails, so if you send someone an email and they reply, it comes into your inbox with your sent email attached, so the whole conversation stays together. Gmail has some fun gadgets and stuff, but I don’t use them much. There is an option to “undo” sent mail right after you sent it in case you changed your mind… lol. But i think it only works on some emails. It’s super easy to set up folders and tag emails to different folders so you stay organized. Also, Gmail has a calendar. There’s a function called “Documents” You can upload a paper or whatever to it and give someone else with a gmail account access to it. That way you can both get online and modify the document. Works especially well on group projects that I had to do in high school. I haven’t used it for awhile, but the one draw back to it was that it refreshed fairly slowly…. With gmail you can download gmail notifyer so if you get an email, even if you don’t have your email open, a small window in the bottom right of your screen pops up and shows you the subject line and the first line of the email. To use this you do have to be logged into your account, but if you click stay logged in or remember my password (i forget what the option is exactly called) you can close your browser window and still get the notifications. There are a bunch of fun backgrounds and color palettes for you to customize your email. Gmail also has a chat function, like facebook has – similar to AIM – so you can chat or video chat with other people who use gmail.

            As far as spam goes, I haven’t had any problem with it. Gmail is pretty good about sorting out the spam into a spam folder. No there is no “homepage” per say, but personally, I hate opening my email and seeing all that junk. I have a separate yahoo account for when i post things on craigslist, and honestly, I can’t stand using it because of all the stuff that comes up when I open my email. There’s something called gmail reader – I havent used it, but from looking at it briefly, i think it’s similar to an email homepage, you can pick pages for it to display and you can go there to read articles. Oh and I just found this, you CAN create a homepage called iGoogle. If you’re logged into your email account and then go to google.com and click on iGoogle in the top right corner of the page it’ll walk you through the process. The calendar and reader and documents functions are listed in the top left corner of your email page, so you don’t have to go anywhere else to get to them.

            If you have a gmail account and if youre logged in (but you dont have to have your email open) and use google search, your gmail/google account will track your searches and the pages youve clicked on. There’s a way to turn that off i think, but ive never had an issue with it, im not searching anything I shouldn’t be =P Also, you can go through and individually delete any of the searches.

            Anyway, Gmail has a lot of functions and if you poek around you can find them, they’re all pretty self explanatory, so I would definitely recommend Gmail!


          • Barbie
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              Oh one other thing about gmail. You cna link different accounts. I have two gmail accounts and my college email account. I have all my college email forwarded to my gmail account and becasue they’re linked when I send out an email from gmail, I have the option to have my email show up as either my college email or my gmail address.


            • bunnytowne
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                Gmail is my fav.    I have yahoo for stuff like  when I email a site and ask a question.   I use yahoo in case I get spam

                Now with Gmail I use it for my friends or for one on one with people.  I don’t get hardly any spam on gmail.  

                I do with yahoo but as I said I use it for websites as opposed to friends and one on one with people I know Like BB  Dana Krempels That sort of thing


              • TARM
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                  Actually, if you set up an iGoogle page you can set that as your home page and your email will show up in a little box. I use it as my home page.  I use Gmail, google reader, the weather…I have a ton of little gadgets on mine. And you can pick from a gazillion different themes. I have a twilight theme because I am a dork. I’ve been using gmail since you had to have an invite to open an account and I’ve never had a single problem. I love it and will never use another email service.

                  Oh, and when I was self employed I had a domain and business email accounts, which I forwarded to my gmail so I only had to check one email account for personal and business emails. I could reply using my business email domain, it was wonderful! I also use the gmail notifier and love that too.


                • Furface
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                    I have a ton of free accounts, Gmail, Yahoo & Hotmail.
                    None of them have ever generated there own spam, I know because I carefully watched for it.
                    I have a Hotmail that I use for contests, forums, sites that you have to sign in, inquiring about colleges. It gets a ton of junk in its junk box & inbox but,
                    once you label stuff junk, it goes to the junk box from then on.
                    I use a different account for friends, family, resume, etc.
                    I give friend the junk email addy too (hotmail in my case) & beg & plead with them to use that addy for any web birthday etc cards,
                    forwarding coupons, any of those send someone this page things – they all sell addresses & generate junk.
                    I use a different Hotmail account for MSN messenger. Before I signed up for that – no junk – after signing up for that – junk.
                    I use yahoo for their messenger & that email gets no junk.
                    I don’t like the homepages so that’s not a good feature for me.
                    About Gmail – if you’ve ever had trouble with a stalker or use the online classifieds such as Kijiji or Craigs List – Gmail has a niffty feature – it knows if an email from a different address is coming from the same person (or maybe computer)

                    Microsoft has a free email program now – Windows Live Mail – you can put all your email account in & it checks everything, rather than signing in & out for each. Similar to Outlook but I found easier to set up.


                  • Beka27
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                      Gmail sounds very cool! I’ve spent the past couple hours (NOT writing my paper that is due Wednesday!) but instead… transferring my stuff to the new Gmail account! So far I like it! I did find the homepage feature (iGoogle) so I’m excited about that!

                      I am pleased that you can have multiple emails all send to the Gmail account. My teachers REFUSE to send messages to our personal accounts, and I always forget to check the college address and I miss a lot of stuff!

                      Thanks so much for your input! I love polling you guys for opinions, you’re great!


                    • Monkeybun
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                        I <3 Gmail.


                      • RabbitPam
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                          I was going to highly recommend Gmail but everyone beat me to it!
                          And, I was going to suggest you use iGoogle for your home page, so you can select all sorts of segments on it to get your preferred news, weather, games, gmail preview, etc. You’re already doing that too.

                          BUT the BEST PART of iGoogle is that there is a BinkyBunny.com feed that can be put on your home page also.

                          In fact, it was last year when I got my new Gmail account, started using iGoogle, and found the BinkyBunny feed. I had never been on BB before, and Spockie had just gone to the Rainbow Bridge, so I found you guys thanks to my Google account.
                          The rest, as they say, is history.


                        • jerseygirl
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                            haha BinkyBunny.com feed…She’s sold!
                            I have a few free accounts, yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc. I haven’t found spam to be much of a problem and the reason I signed up for some of these is so I could give an email that wasn’t my chief one in case of spam.
                            I don’t utilise any of the other features much though other than iGoogle. I did find adding attachments to be frustrating with my yahoo account but not with others…..


                          • Deleted User
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                              Gmail is the all-around athlete! You can even send out and receive small videos because its capacity is so huge.


                            • Elrohwen
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                                Gmail! I love gmail. I hope you enjoy it too 🙂


                              • Kokaneeandkahlua
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                                  Personally I love hotmail. I’ve been on it since the good old days

                                  Gmail does sell your info and read your emails, so I’ve heard, in order to marke to you (I’m sure they all do though). Probably just spotlighted becasue it’s google http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

                                  I’ve set up with yahoo, gmail, hotmail, godaddy, university email the works.

                                  Hotmail is by far my favorite and I think because they’ve been around so long, they’ve changed a lot of things to make it more user friendly etc. Also-HUGE storage. I keep all my emails (forever, always have!) and I’m at like 2% usage!


                                • Monkeybun
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                                    Psh, hotmail stole the large storage from gmail, they used to have low limits before


                                  • Kokaneeandkahlua
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                                      I know!! Now it’s huge


                                    • luvmybunny
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                                        I LOVE my yahoo account! I have Gmail too, but I have used my yahoo account longer. Either one is good I think!

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