Do you or anyone you know use an ISP provided email (@aol.com, @comcast.com, @att.net) or a work or school email (@yourjob.com, @yourschool.com) as a primary email? It’s time for you (or someone you love) to switch to a free, large storage email system, with an innovative web based interface email service like Gmail (or Yahoo or Hotmail).

These services will give you an address you will have for life with typically all the storage you will need without having to delete any emails. Without the headache of being tied to a service for the sake of losing your email address. They also provide POP / IMAP support so you can still use your favorite email application (Outlook, Thunderbird); if that’s the sort of thing you are into.

It kills me when people send out “I have a new email address” every time they change jobs, schools or ISPs. With each switch they often lose their saved emails, address books and other important information.

Branded email addresses (me@mydomainname.com) are good to use when you want to promote your site, but then you are tied to renewing that domain for the sake of keeping your address. Then, the webmail applications included with webhost accounts are typically very bad and not even worth using. So if you are using a personal domain name for your email, I recommend using Gmail’s “Get mail from other accounts” feature to POP your email into your Gmail account, then you can use the “Send mail as” feature to send email from that address.