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Which email provider do you use for your primary email?

  • Gmail / Google

    Votes: 21 50.0%
  • iCloud / Apple

    Votes: 6 14.3%
  • Outlook.com / Microsoft

    Votes: 3 7.1%
  • Yahoo!

    Votes: 2 4.8%
  • AOL

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other web-based email

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • Your own server-based email

    Votes: 9 21.4%

  • Total voters
    42

Prototypical

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Apr 22, 2011
413
57
Nebraska
I have decided to pare down the number of email addresses and email providers that I use (currently have far too many) and I'm not sure which way to go. I'd really like to get down to one or two providers to make consolidating email a lot easier.

Which provider do you use for your primary email address?
 

Ariii

macrumors 6502a
Jan 26, 2012
681
9
Chicago
I use LavaBit. It's a really nice service, the web version is lightweight, the spam filter is great, and it has free POP3/SMTP support.

I used to use AmeriTech, which turned into SBC/Yahoo!, which turned into AT&T/Yahoo!, but my account was suspended, due to spammer breaking into my eMail and sending news fraud scams.
 

malman89

macrumors 68000
May 29, 2011
1,651
6
Michigan
I switched to an @outlook.com when I was able to reserve my perfect email address when it went live.

It's also sleeker and nicer than gmail. And after 6 years of gmail, I unfortunately started to accumulate quite a good amount of bothersome email newsletters/spam, so it was a good time to cut loose.
 

sviato

macrumors 68020
Oct 27, 2010
2,427
378
HR 9038 A
It's difficult to define what primary is, but I use several. Gmail would probably be primary, although I use these as well:

- School email for school stuff and job applications
- Hotmail for random sign-ups to stores and forums etc
- iCloud for Apple stuff

Also reserved an outlook one with my name which I'm considering using as my primary in the future.
 
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