New Email Address Questions

[Bruce Wrenn]

I'm dumping AT&T for both Direct TV, and crappy (3.6Mb) internet. I went with T-Mobile's 5G internet, and so far am VERY HAPPY! Though slow by many standards, I now have 40Mb service for more than ten bucks a month less than I was paying AT&T. This means I will need a new internet address. Any suggestions as to who to go with, or avoid, based upon experiences.

[Matt Day]

Gmail is the standard.

[Zachary Hoyt]

Gmail is good. I am still on Yahoo because I have had that address since 2003 or so and my customers are used to it, but I have a gmail account that I use for backup. I forward all my business receipts to that address so I'll still have them if Yahoo goes away.

[roger wiegand]

I don't know of any reason to use something other than Gmail. I do have a legacy Yahoo address that I use for sites that I expect are going to send me spam. The mail for the web domain names I own is managed through Gmail. I'd always keep an address on at least one other service, no harm in having multiples email accounts-- I use at least six to keep different kinds of activities separated.

[Jim Becker]

gmail. Works. Easy. Good spam filtration. Nice integration with their calendar and other resources, too.

[Bill Howatt]

When I had the same problem, I went with Outlook because I have an Office 360 subscription which apart from all the MS Office apps provides 1TB of cloud (OneDrive) storage. It also has contacts, calendar, etc. Of course, this costs a few dollars a year but you get the the latest apps and lots of cloud. Gmail is certainly popular and would work fine.

[Curt Harms]

I have a gmail address I seem to have gotten when I activated a Pixel phone. I hardly use it. I'm maybe silly but I don't want Google embedded in every aspect of my life. The European email providers appear a little more respectful of privacy. Bruce, you've discovered why it's a good idea to have an email address not tied to your ISP.

[Andrew More]

I don't know of any reason to use something other than Gmail.

Privacy mostly. I've got a gmail account, and have had for decades, but if I was looking today I'd consider an encrypted provider that doesn't read my email to craft ads.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Our former cable provider did away with email services. I am the computer guru/email secretary for our home. That eliminated the last defense I had for not changing to Dish Network. My wife changed us to Dish for television and I set up a gmail account. It works well. Of course, I also had to change the email address at about 64 or 65 accounts IIRC.

[Jerome Stanek]

You could check out hush mail. My wife uses it and likes it

[roger wiegand]

Privacy mostly. I've got a gmail account, and have had for decades, but if I was looking today I'd consider an encrypted provider that doesn't read my email to craft ads.

I don't use the web interface so I may be missing where this shows up, but I've never seen an ad of any kind associated with Gmail, much less a targeted one. It looks like any other IMAP/POP provider, completely ad-free.

If I need to keep something confidential I certainly wouldn't put it into an email, no matter the provider. One-on-one conversation with a mask on, in a huge open area outdoors, adjacent to a roaring waterfall might be OK.

[Bruce Page]

I use Comcast/Outlook for serious things like banking and medical. Gmail for just about everything else.

[Myk Rian]

I have a couple yahoo accounts and a Gmail. I don't use yahoo at all. It gets nothing but spam. A lot of it.
Gmail has always done a great job of filtering the junk mail out.

[Ron Selzer]

I'm dumping AT&T for both Direct TV, and crappy (3.6Mb) internet. I went with T-Mobile's 5G internet, and so far am VERY HAPPY! Though slow by many standards, I now have 40Mb service for more than ten bucks a month less than I was paying AT&T. This means I will need a new internet address. Any suggestions as to who to go with, or avoid, based upon experiences.

Bruce
My email address is ronselzer@att.net, I have not had att service for around 14 years. See no reason to change anytime soon either.
Ron

[Keith Pitman]

Bruce
My email address is ronselzer@att.net, I have not had att service for around 14 years. See no reason to change anytime soon either.
Ron

I agree; you probably can keep your current email address and avoid a lot of issues in changing. I did change mine 18 months ago and I still run into websites that I have to re-register on.