best email?

Gmail hands down and spring for the pro/business account if you want your own domain name and other power features.

 

Admittedly I'm not skilled in 90% of the features GMail offers but of all the one's I've used, it's been the best. Especially if you want to use your own domain. Been using my personal free account for just under 10 years and aside from adjusting the spam settings recently it's been great.

 

Outlook.com if you are a Windows / MS Office user. great online document editing. If you want to maintain your domain name then an Office 365 business account and you can keep using fchat.com for your email.

 

Gmail is reliable but the interface is perverted by Google's corporate mantra "search, don't sort."

What appear to be folders are in fact shortcuts to searches, so the same message can potentially occupy more than one "folder." It's quirky; you can delete a message only to find it later loitering within the "All Mail" or "Important" (whatever that means) pseudo-folders, for some reason. Their webmail interface also commits serious violence to message formatting and quoting style. The line-wrapping has a mind of its own.

However, Gmail does have an IMAP backend that works pretty well, so you can use your own client application like Thunderbird and avoid most of this.

 

gmail or outlook i use and love both

 

As much as I dont like gmail reading the content or text on my emails so they could target the ads, its still is the best one Ive use.

 

I opened an outlook account about 10 years ago. Lots of spam, considering I've only used it for 3 maybe 4 forums and friends and family. I opened a gmail last year for business and have received a lot less spam. Actually almost zero spam. Outlook, get bogus emails pretending to be everything from Facebook, EBay and the Apple Store. I have non of these connected to the outlook account. Point gmail for less spam and phishing scams.

 

Honestly, after years and years of using OUtlook, I prefer Gmail's tags/shortcut for searches. Certain emails could be filed in many different folders, yet with a search in gmail, it applies much better. But that is all up to the end user and what works best for that individual.

I'll vote gmail / google for business.