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[#1]

256M for an inbox is a joke... It's 2012, not 1992.

[#2]

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KeithLucy wrote:

256M for an inbox is a joke... It's 2012, not 1992.

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Assuming you are talking about Verizon's webmail, I don't know why you would have 256MB, I have 2GB:

Maybe you should check again to see how much you have?

[#3]

I've wondered, why do people use emails that are tied to service providers?

[#4]

The 2 Gig mailbox is only for the primary account; subs get 250 MB.

As for why people use their ISP's email... I have no idea. There are many free email providers out there that have a better interface, better storage, better features, better security, better backups...

[#5]

Thanks for that correction somegirl! As I never log into any of my sub-accounts via the webmail interface I was not aware that sub-accounts got less storage (and somewhat in defense of what I wrote, the OP did not mention using a sub-account  ) - the amount of storage Verizon provides does not matter to me at all for any of my accounts as my wife and I use PC-based clients for all of them and I download from them all regularly.

As to the other question about why would anybody use ISP email accounts, for me it is more of a convenience than anything else. I originally had Charter Cable email accounts, when I switched to Verizon FiOS 7 years ago I just notified all of the people I cared about that I had a new email address and happily "lost" contact with a bunch of Spammers and people who had my Charter email address that I didn't want to communicate with any longer. For me at least Verizon's email has worked just fine the whole time - fast, reliable, and virtually no Spam gets through (I probably average one or two Spam emails a week in my client inbox). I do have email accounts at another ISP plus Gmail, Hotmail, and a website domain that I maintain, and I check them regularly with Windows Live Mail, but I really don't use them.

From the list of better features that somegirl mentions that other providers offer:

better interface - doesn't matter to me since I use a PC-based client

better storage - doesn't matter to me since I use a PC-based client

better features - doesn't matter to me since I use a PC-based client

better security - important, but with Verizon now supporting SSL, I am not sure what security exposures still exist compared to other providers

better backups - doesn't matter to me since I use a PC-based client

My alternative question would be: why would anyone want to rely on managing and leaving their messages on any email system? I want mine on my laptop, under my control, in my backups on my own external hard drive, accessible when I am online and when I am not, as soon as I can get them.

Just my opinions of course....

[#6]

"My alternative question would be: why would anyone want to rely on managing and leaving their messages on any email system? I want mine on my laptop, under my control, in my backups on my own external hard drive, accessible when I am online and when I am not, as soon as I can get them."

Maybe I don't understand the question correctly, but I can think of one reason: automatically downloading emails to your system is a security risk.  However, this can be down with gmail, hotmail, ymail, and every other freemail out there.

Either way, the main reason I don't use ISP email is that if I ever have to change ISPs I have to change emails, which is a hassle.

[#7]

"Maybe I don't understand the question correctly, but I can think of one reason: automatically downloading emails to your system is a security risk.  However, this can be down with gmail, hotmail, ymail, and every other freemail out there."

Why do you view that as a security risk? From my perspective, getting the emails off the server and having them exist only on my PC makes them far more secure than leaving them for days/weeks/months/years on some server in the sky. You hear all the time about email accounts being hacked, if that happens the hacker can read every email you have left there. If the emails have been downloaded and deleted from the server that security exposure no longer exists (well of course the hacker can see any new emails that arrive after hacking in, but not any of the previous ones). And since I am using the available SSL support for sending and receiving emails with Windows Live Mail, they are encrypted while being transferred between the servers and my PC.

So please explain why what I do is a security risk, because I view what I do as far more secure. Thanks.

As to the hassle of changing email addresses, have only changed mine once (or maybe twice) in about 20 years, not really a big hassle to me. But everybody's situation is different I guess...(interesting sidenote though: I just recently cancelled our AT&T DSL and voice service at our lake house, and AT&T said that my email address would remain active and that I could continue to use it. I was surprised by that, although I have no intention of using it.)