That's the way Google wants it, which is why I've given up on Gmail after almost a decade. But this onetime alternative is showing signs that it's past its prime, especially if you want to use the service with a third-party client. Gmail was a breath of fresh air when it debuted.
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If that account is on a free service run by a large corporation, good luck getting anyone's help in restoring your account. If you depend on an email address that someone else controls, you run the risk that the owner of that domain will suspend your account for a real or imagined infraction of their terms of service. I'm a firm believer in the value of owning one's own email address, though, even for personal mail. You can use a generic address if you want simplicity. Step 1: Set up your new primary email address. Note that the steps I list here will work with any service, not just, although you'll have to dig around to find the corresponding settings for other services. This post explains how I did it, and how you can do the same.
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With this consolidation, all of those widely scattered addresses are now going to a single inbox, with an address hosted on a domain I own. Over the years I've accumulated a collection of addresses on a variety of free email services: Hotmail and its successors Yahoo (barely used) and, of course, Gmail. I keep my personal mail separate from my work correspondence.
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(I list the reasons why I made that choice in this post.) My primary work email address is associated with my business domain and is hosted on an Exchange Server run by Intermedia. Last weekend, I moved several thousand messages to a new account at, leaving my once busy address as a plain-vanilla forwarder going to a more modern service, one that works effortlessly with all my devices. As I wrote in my last post, after nearly a decade, I've finally given up on Gmail