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Which webmail service do you use?

Which webmail service do you use?

  • gmail

    Votes: 29 55.8%

  • outlook.com

    Votes: 3 5.8%

  • yahoo mail

    Votes: 2 3.8%

  • other

    Votes: 18 34.6%
  • Total voters
    52
I have mac.com, outlook.com & gmail. I have been trying to consolidate my personal domain emails that were on google apps and migrated it to outlook's domain services. I have to say that email w/ Outlook is better than Gmail in the web interface. I love how it manages mail. I really hate those stupid tags. I've been using gmail since the says when you needed an invitation and I still don't like tags. I like folders. Sue me. GMail has just gotten so cluttered. Those tab things make it even worse. Less ads in Outlook. No push from GMail in iOS native email.

BUT Outlook.com has some growing up to do as well. My 2 big issues:
* If using mac mail or any 3rd party mail app, you can not send mail as one of your aliases, only your primary. That is pretty eye-roll worthy IMO.
*Also, the Outlook calendar does not provide calDav support to use with iCal. But it works fine on iOS. I don't know why that is.

I would rather pay for better Outlook.com services/access than pay Google for my domain services, but I may actually have to go back to GMail if Outlook can't get this alias & calDAV thing corrected. Those are important to me.

My dream solution would be if Apple has domain services. But that won't happen.
 
DramaLLama said:
Don't use the web interface too often anymore? Is it just me or is the web version of email the 'future' of things?
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I don't know. I usually handle email on my phone since it has push while most desktop clients don't.
 
E3BK said:
*Also, the Outlook calendar does not provide calDav support to use with iCal. But it works fine on iOS. I don't know why that is.
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This is really strange since Microsoft Exchange Server (the host for Microsoft Outlook program rather than the web service) does work with Calendar (iCal).
 
I usually use Gmail but sometimes Yahoo mail too.
I think Gamil is faster than other mailing service.
 
tbayrgs said:
My primary email account is through Yahoo, have had it since their beginning in 1997, but I manage it via a gmail account (everything automatically pulled in). I only keep the Yahoo account because I've had it for so long and prefer to have my actual name in my user ID--wasn't available via Gmail.
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This. I forward everything from Yahoo! to Gmail. If you've ever let the yahoo webmail sit in your browser playing ads overnight, then you'll find it consumes a couple of gigs by morning. It's one big memory leak.
 
Jws said:
I've used Outlook.com ever since it launched. I was able to get a variation of my name (which is very common) so I started using it. I prefer it to Gmail anyway when I have to go to the Web interface, but I don't do that too often anymore.
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I signed up very early to grab an outlook email address exactly as I wanted just so I could. But I don't use it often.
 
dogslobber said:
This. I forward everything from Yahoo! to Gmail. If you've ever let the yahoo webmail sit in your browser playing ads overnight, then you'll find it consumes a couple of gigs by morning. It's one big memory leak.
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Is the mail service then resulting in a memory leak in that case or the browser (or a plug-in the that a browser uses) resulting in one not handling the content it displays properly somehow?
 
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