10 yahoo, 8 gmail, 2 MS. Some have fake names and / or crazy titles. I use 5 or 6 as primary, the rest collect junk. I check 4 of them daily, the rest monthly. I hate a cluttered inbox. I have a domain but do not use the mail service with it. I had 8 facebook acc’ts back in the 00’s to keep my farmville’s going. I quit all FB acc’ts in 08, Now I just keep the mail accounts active in case I ever need them.
Go ahead and laugh , but I had a lot of time on my hands back then. But I always had very good passwords and changed them often, a good memory too.
I used to use Thunderbird, but got to the point that the interface wasn’t what I liked. Since all the email accounts I cared about where Gmail/Gsuite, I switched to Kiwi which works for me.
For work, I use Outlook, because its Office365. But again, we still use a third party spam provider with it (of which I am a reseller if anyone is interested).
Never understood Thunderbird. My mum seems happy with it, but it is so clunky and a pain to configure.
I haven’t liked any email programs since YAM https://yam.ch (Amiga OS), hence I end up using whatever the OS has.
As I have multiple accounts with the same services, no way am I spending time logging out and in multiple times to just get my email.
Web mail is a convenience, which the providers would prefer you use as it allows them more insight into your buying habits and a variety of other privacy invading things such as watch the way you type and the words you use, so they can more effectively advertise at you, including right there in your email.
NO !
I prepare or read my email locally on my machine, on or offline it does not matter, but it will be done away from nosey HTML and scripts.
The only trustable email web portals are those you get with dedicated email services that don’t have adverts.
Then you often get the option of front-ends so you have a better chance of using a GUI that suits you.
Also, how easy is it to use email certs with google, microsoft or yahoo webmail ?
In a real email program you have the easiest way to add authentication and encryption, making authenticated private emails a much easier achievement for all, for free.
Peoples reliance on webmail is one of the biggest reasons we can’t all use standard crypto, and all manner of hacky PGP solutions have had to be contrived.
But I mostly use the default mail apps on iOS and macOS. On Windows I have yet to find a mail client that I am happy with, so I stick with the gmail web interface and that works well enough.
I am occasionally tempted to run my own mail server, and at some point I will probably do this on a non-critical domain I own.
I use Gsuite for my (2 personal domains, single inbox), 1 gmail and 1 icloud (mostly for junk use to be my primary.). I used hotmail years ago, I check it maybe once a year now.
Primary email for our business is our own domain running through a ProtonMail paid account. We used FastMail before that, which worked well too but changed to ProtonMail as in theory it has better privacy as only we can view the email contents and not the email service provider. At the moment I use the ProtonMail IMAP Bridge software installed locally so that Thunderbird can collect/send the email via the Bridge software. I think that in the near future I will move to just using the ProtonMail web interface. Simplifying things as I will not need Thunderbird or the bridge software.
For Personal email I use my own domain on my own mail server running on a Raspberry Pi 3 at home. It runs Postfix and Dovecot. I had good fun setting it up and learning the process. The server has been running great for a couple of years now without issue. I just update the Pi every now and then. I collect/send the mail on my home systems via Thunderbird for desktop/laptop and K9 Mail on my Android devices.
I also use a few free providers like Yahoo and Hotmail for various things and disposable email services like SharkLasers, which can be useful too.
One thing I have found very useful about Thunderbird is that it is great for people that are not very web savvy and keep giving their User/Password away to phishing sites pretending to be their email provider, which seems to be a problem at least for many people I encounter. As with ThunderBird or similar email client they never have to enter a User/Password on a webpage again to use their email. I have an agreement with one person that I do not even tell them what their password is as they can not get their head around phishing and always think that Yahoo is about to delete their account if they do not enter their user and password as detailed in some random email they received.
I use Apple’s iCloud and the Apple Mail client. Like most Apple applications, Mail is pretty basic and certainly not as good as Outlook. I chose Apple as I do not trust Google and I use Apple hardware.
I used Spark for a while, but it just doesn’t feel right for me - the swipe actions are a little too sensitive and the display text a bit cramped. Edison was okay, but have gone back to the Gmail app again as I can see what labels have been applied to messages - I organise by labels with a lot of filters, and just swipe emails away from my inbox but still have them accessible under the Gmail “folders”.
The only thing I want from the Gmail app really, is customisable notification tones.
Since I have 2 G-Suite mailboxes to watch, and a personal GMail, I use Google’s Gmail app for iPhone. I really like that it can merge the accounts into an “All Inboxes” choice. On Windows, Mac, and Linux, I use multiple Chromium based browsers (Brave is my favorite).
I’m hosting both my email and my Mom’s business email at home with MailCow. Real easy in docker and after putting in a bunch of DNS records, it is really stable and solid.
, but I had a lot of time on my hands back then. But I always had very good passwords and changed them often, a good memory too.