<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I hate my email address. I made it in like the 7th grade and it's just completely tacky. I know I want to get a new one, but I just wasn't sure whether I should wait and use the one I get from my new college (I'm a senior in HS), or if I should just go ahead and get a gmail.</p>
<p>Do you guys use your college emails or just a regular gmail/yahoo/hotmail account? Pros, cons?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, I'm not in college yet (Senior in HS also) but I plan on using my current e-mail throughout college. However, my situation may be uniqe since I do all of my business under that account and it isn't some free account on gmail.</p>
<p>Regardless, you should be able to forward all your e-mail from your campus account to your gmail account, and if you can't do that, I think gmail will allow you to have it check a second account for you. </p>
<p>So, it's really a matter of preference, since you can easily keep tabs on your campus e-mail account even if it isn't your main one.</p>
<p>I see no cons with either choice overall. Also, if it's the web interface that bugs you, you can most likely find another one or use a client on your computer like I do.</p>
<p>Or use your college email AND gmail. Between work, personal, and school stuff, I regularly check 6 email addresses. It's just better for me this way; keeps everything separate. It's not time consuming though since i use a POP3 client and have it check most of them at once.</p>
<p>For, $10 a year, you can buy a domain from godaddy.com or enom.com via google. It's a system Google has that's called google apps.</p>
<p>They will give you free email (the interface is the same as Gmail, but for your domain), Google Talk, and Calendar. It's a nice touch having an email with your name on the right side of the @.</p>
<p>For example, I bought timothyandrew(dot)com, and my email is mail(at)timothyandrew(dot)com</p>
<p>More info here: Google</a> Apps</p>
<p>Gmail is probably the most useful of mail service.</p>
<p>Of course, the best and longest lasting user name is some easy variation of your name and initials</p>
<p>I use Gmail (3 accounts), Yahoo, and my SEMO account.</p>
<p>One thing to think about is that many (most or all??) schools will require that "school business" be conducted only through a school account.</p>
<p>If you have a gmail account, you can link it with your school account and not only be able to see all your mail when you login to gmail but also be able to send mail from your school address from your gmail account. I just started using gmail after over a year of balancing a few different accounts, and now I don't know how I lived without it!</p>
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If you have a gmail account, you can link it with your school account and not only be able to see all your mail when you login to gmail but also be able to send mail from your school address from your gmail account. I just started using gmail after over a year of balancing a few different accounts, and now I don't know how I lived without it!
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<p>Yes, you can. Your college mail account will let you access your mail via POP3, which essentially lets you download the e-mail messages to your computer via a desktop Mail app like Outlook, Thunderbird, or Mail.app (on a mac).</p>
<p>But Gmail supports POP3 to. So you can download your messages from your college account to your Gmail account. Cons are: Gmail checks for POP3 only around once every hour, so you can get new mails only once an hour.</p>
<p>A better solution would be to setup your college email account to forward (sans POP3) all your mail to your GMail account.</p>
<p>Alternatively, some people just use a desktop POP3 email app for their college email ID and the Gmail online interface for their gmail account. Please note: On the desktop email app you will not be limited to once-an-hour refreshes.</p>
<p>I use a combination of POP3 and having my email forwarded to Gmail. This way, I get my email as soon as I should, and I still have the ability to send emails from my school address</p>
<p>Yahoo for all personal email, school address for all school-related things.</p>
<p>Gmail. 6GB, fast, clean interface, IMAP mail access= can use a desktop client like outlook or thunderbird but keep all of your email. Spam filter is excellent too.</p>
<p>Yahoo has unlimited storage.</p>
<p>Yahoo also deletes your email if you haven't accessed it for 90 days, the ads are more intrusive, the interface takes longer to load, and you can't use a desktop email client.</p>
<p>6GB is way more than enough for most people. I've used my account extensively for 3 years, never deleting an email or attachment, and I'm at 12% utilization. And usually around the time I break 20%, google increases the storage for free.</p>
<p>my college mail website absolutely sucks. its painful to use and slow. and, it only has 100mb of storage. i use Gmail, and have all the messages from there forwarded to my GMail account. i can also send messages from GMail, but it looks like i sent it from my .edu address. yahoo sucks. to cluttered, and not as easy to use as GMail. google has a lot of good features like google docs and spreadsheets too, that go well with gmail.</p>
<p>I use gmail and have my school e-mail forwarded to that account. I recommend that system, it's great.</p>
<p>the email system at the university of montana really sucks. it has only 50 mb and does not work well with firefox. so i made it forward all emails into my gmail. and if you have firefox you can get an add-on called customizegoogle which removes gmail ads.</p>