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Which email address to use as standard?

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heavyseve

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Nov 8, 2019
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So I have @me.com and @mac.com and @icloud.com. I use Thunderbird as my email manager. I’m also trying to get away from legacy Comcast email addresses and use gmail less.

Not sure what to do. Thanks.
 
I use a "way back" @netscape.net address for contacts with businesses, charities, organizations, etc.
I have an @att.net address that is for the same groups, but those I really don't want bugging me.
Then there is an @iCloud.com address which is for friends and family.

So you might want to use them all. Break it down in a way that works for you.
 
I prefer to use my own domains. I just forward my email to whatever mail host I'm using (Gmail for one domain and Fastmail for the rest). There is a bit of work to do to ensure my sent mail shows as coming from my domain, but it was pretty easy with Gmail and Fastmail. I do work hard to make sure I don't get locked into some mail provider like Apple, Gmail, etc.

It's pretty cheap to get a domain from Cloudflare (not so cheap from the likes of GoDaddy).
 
Go with your own domain, that way, if you change emails providers you won't need to tell the world and possibly lose out in emails
 
I have one domain with two email addresses…hosted at MS Office 365…and that ends up costing me nearly $125 per year. It can't be avoided due to user requirements.

Another domain I have has a cheap website host. This totals around $30 per year. The website host provides its own IMAP email with limited space…so I use it but I move all the emails to a Gmail account so that I don't exceed the storage limits. An added bonus is being able to do this with multiple email addresses @thedomain.com.

Whether or not such a setup will work for a user depends on the user's requirements, I suppose.
 
BrianBaughn said:
I have one domain with two email addresses…hosted at MS Office 365…and that ends up costing me nearly $125 per year. It can't be avoided due to user requirements.

Another domain I have has a cheap website host. This totals around $30 per year. The website host provides its own IMAP email with limited space…so I use it but I move all the emails to a Gmail account so that I don't exceed the storage limits. An added bonus is being able to do this with multiple email addresses @thedomain.com.

Whether or not such a setup will work for a user depends on the user's requirements, I suppose.
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I do similar but use an email client -- Mail -- to store email locally rather than using something like Gmail.
 
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