Do you use free or paid email service? Here is also the place where you can post what kind of email service you use.
I use Free email service. Gmail and Hotmail. One free Email for private stuff, and one for newsletters - junkmails - and so on v
Free Gmail, Hotmail and now TrulyMail with all accounts setup in the TrulyMail client which is also free.
Paid and free. Email is important to me. Paid account hosting my domain (giving me "forever" email addresses). Via EuMX: IMAP, 10GB storage, web storage, unlimited email addresses, <$14.00/yr. Free accounts for incidental / non-critical communications.
As few posts above have confirmed , paid is for business usage . It is absolutely unnecessary for a home user making no business to pay for an email account when there are many good out there such as GMail , Windows Live (Hotmail) , Yahoo , etc...
I host my domain email with Google Apps which is free. But I do pay for my registered domain name. Which costs less then $10 a year. This allows me to change email hosts quickly and have unlimited custom email addresses on my domain, which I can delete if necessary.
I bought Bluebottle account (for POP3), but it was actually worse than free Gmail, so I stopped using it.
Free is all I need. I started out with Hotmail/ Live Mail and it still is my default email that I pass on to friends/family members for now. I also have Gmail but that's used for other purposes.
All my accounts are free, except for the ISP account. I pay for the service, thus the email account that comes with it.