Best email provider please.

[Slime]

Unfortunately my email provider is o2, who sold the webmail arm of their business to Sky in 2013.
They have maintained their servers for those who migrated to Sky, but yesterday the system went down and only came back around lunchtime today.
o2 blamed Sky, Sky blamed o2 and neither seemed to give a damn!
So ............... I'm now looking for a new email provider.
All suggestions will be very welcomed and, as soon as I'm sorted, I'll go about binning Sky altogether!

Cheers all,

Slime.

 

[full_throttle]

outlook, google and yahoo all have stand alone email accounts, free and easy to use.

 

[rosecott]

Many years ago I had to keep changing ISPs due to poor service. As it didn't depend on any particular ISP, I switched my email to Live Mail and this has served me well since - easy to set up and use.

 

[SocketRocket]

I have used Yahoo for many years and have never had cause to complain, it's also free!

 

[PhilTheFragger]

If you want an email that is independent of your ISP then Outlook.com, or Gmail are the places to go

Hotmail is still going strong, but a hotmail account is seen as a bit old fashioned

personally im with Gmail

 

[Hacker Khan]

gmail

 

[Fish]

I've used Gmail now for donkeys without any complaints.

 

[Slime]

Gmail is getting a lot of votes, I think I'll look into that.
I'm assuming it's easy to set up for use with Thunderbird and I'm hoping I could have several different email addresses.
Also, would there be a way of changing the domain name from @gmail.com to, say, @slime.com?

Slime.

 

[full_throttle]

check this site out https://uk.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83269&checkAvail=1&domainToCheck=slime.co.uk

 

[palindromicbob]

definitely worth looking at gmail. Gets you so much more than just email. App is simple for mobile devices. Access via desktop is easy and quick. Interfaces are clean and more advanced options such as filtering etc are easy to set up.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Gmail has been good so far, you can do a fair bit of extra stuff with it if you get under the hood a little.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Been with Yahoo and never had any issues

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Been with Yahoo and never had any Emails

Fixed that for ya Martin

 

[Slime]

Gmail has been good so far, you can do a fair bit of extra stuff with it if you get under the hood a little.

The problem is that I'm pretty stupid!
If I'm to shift from o2 to Gmail, it'll have to be absolutely idiot proof!
Exactly how easy is it? I have five current email addresses.

Slime.

 

[davidy233]

The problem is that I'm pretty stupid!
If I'm to shift from o2 to Gmail, it'll have to be absolutely idiot proof!
Exactly how easy is it? I have five current email addresses.

Slime.

It's a doddle - if it wasn't it wouldn't have grown so big - lots of stupid people out there using it no prob

 

[Slime]

It's a doddle - if it wasn't it wouldn't have grown so big - lots of stupid people out there using it no prob

Thanks mate, that gives me a bit of confidence.
I guess the best thing for me to do is find an idiots' guide on google.

Slime.