My throwaway account is my hotmail email address. I use that for signing up for forums and Facebook, stuff like that. Hotmail has really good spam filters and once I've marked something as 'junk' further mail from that sender goes to the junk folder.

For my serious email I have a gmail account.

I'm looking at this

https://protonmail.com/about

Throw away is Hotmail.

Gmail is the way to go, IMHO.

I have had a Hotmail account since I started, well after juno lol

I also use Gmail. Had a yahoo throw away but it was a pain. I got free Comcast with my internet but don't use it.

Hotmail and Gmail linked to Cox. Yahoo is my throw away.

Yahoo & Gmail

Sounds like gmail is the way to go. I've had my sbcglobal as my main email for serious stuff, it's from our internet service provider. My whole life in on that darn email for 13 years! UGH! Now we will have to go around and change emails everywhere...what a pain!

You should be able to send all your old sbcglobal emails to gmail. You won't lose them.

I am looking at protonmail, but I have been using gmail for my mail -- I don't think Google is going away soon, and I got tired of having to send everyone new email addresses for me every single time the one I'd been using (ISP mail address) was sold, bought out or whatever.

My ISP eventually became AT&T, and I was already on gmail, so I didn't switch and make an AT&T account... even though I thought they'd stay awhile, too. Nope, they sold out to Frontier.

I did have Yahoo and Hotmail throw aways. Yahoo was indeed a pain.

Once apart of time I used the mail my internet provider set up with my account. Then we moved. and moved. and moved... and each time I ended up with a different email address, cause the provider from before wasn't available.

Thus, I changed to hotmail, later moved to yahoo, (where I still have a 'throw away account') and for about 14 or so years I now use gmail.

It took some time to get used to every new email account... and with gmail, it doesn't matter where I am to log in, or where I move to.

I like that in an email address.

Moni

I still have my AOL account, I'm terrible with email, I have almost 150k unread. If you ever need me, do not send me an email!

AOL for me. Never any other, never a problem in all these years.

Yahoo is my primary email. I use Gmail for throwaway stuff. I despise Gmail, I don't find it user-friendly and it doesn't have the short-cut keys that yahoo does. I'm so used to hitting the "r" for reply, "k" for read, and the delete key to delete messages. Gmail doesn't do any of these.

I have Comcast and have them send my emails over to my Outlook so I don't have to log in to Comcast to get my mail. I also have a gmail account should Comcast be having any problems.

Still aol. 20 years! I do have a gmail but that is for certain apps on my phone.

Yahoo for junk, gmail for personal

GMX for personal and family emails. Gmail for all other junk, which is 95% of emails.

gmail

Terilyn....thank God. I have met someone just like me. I don't read my email either. If you need to get hold of me, text me or find me on FB. Or here. Or anywhere, but please don't email me. BTW, I have a Gmail email and I have a couple of different ones from yahoo for FB and pinterest. I never check those either.

There is Gmail by Google. My son uses that one. I'm using the email provided by my internet service provider; It is Yahoo! running on ATT's Uverse. Recently, Yahoo was bought by Verizon, and for now, ATT continues to use it. During the week of completion of the purchase, I noticed a glitch or two with my internet service, but after that, there were no changes; It operated the same as before. I can neither recommend it or pan it. It works for me and what I do. It would not surprise me if ATT went looking for a different service mainly due to paying fees to Verizon.

I've used AOL for a very LO-O-O-ONG time, it is my main email account. Never have any problems with it, and can log in from anywhere, as far as I know. I also have sbcglobal and gmail, mainly as 'throw-away' accounts, and I really don't care for either of them, they aren't very user friendly. But that may be because I'm so used to how AOL works.

Rusty

Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook and Yahoo. Yahoo which I detest is my throwaway. It's like a giant spam folder. LOL Hotmail is my social and a couple Gmail accounts are for the real world.

I created a Gmail email but find it a bit confusing since I already had a youtube account which also uses google so now I have...somehow...THREE google accounts, one is the gmail and two go to youtube. I only remember creating the one account for youtube, but there are two. I have no idea where it came from but it used my yahoo email address as my ID. I think I may have created it many years ago and forgot, maybe for google documents?

I'm wondering if those that are using AOL will experience the same thing I did with OATH taking over your bookmark and asking you to agree to their terms. As I understand it, they are also under this oath dot com company. So then, if that's the case, you will have to agree to their terms or you will not be allowed to get to your email. What happened to us is that when we clicked on our regular bookmark to go to our sbcglobal dot net email, it redirected us to oath dot com and because we were using palemoon as our browser, the user agreement would not come up and it just went to the oath home page and nothing would happen. It wasn't until we use Internet Explorer that we were able to get to the user agreement page, accept that and we then went to our email like normal. According to AT&T's customer service, they told us that we had to accept the user agreement. Bad thing is...no one knew anything about this oath dot com deal until my husband insisted to speak to a supervisor and THEN THEY had to talk to their email people who then told us that if we want to continue to use our email, we HAD to accept the user agreement "that's just how it is" they said. It is ridiculous how these customer service people are so clueless!

We use a couple Spectrum accounts (they're our ISP) and several gmail accounts. Like others, 2 are "special purpose". One is the "Signup Account" and another is "Online purchases Account". That helps keep our "real" accounts clutter free.

ArkansasGirl, as an aol user I have never seen or heard of OATH.

Janie, I had not either until yesterday! In fact, in my other thread, I thought that our computers were infected with a hijacker malware!

I have used Hotmail since I first got a computer almost 20 years ago.

I have had outlook from the beginning -- great spam filter, and you can report phishing emails and emails that have come from a hacked friend's account (beyond just labeling them as junk). It has a few other functions that I use also in coordination with my browser. Can't do that with gmail -- I have gmail as my "throwaway" account that I use to sign up for promotions, catalogues, craigslist, that sort of thing.

I use the AppleMail that came with my computer - have been doing so for over 25 year - works a treat!

I recently changed to outlook.com via MSN. Love it. It’s easy to use, easy to keep organized and user friendly.

Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions!