A big problem that you can encounter online is if you change your ISP, and you get a new email address. Telling all your friends your new address (and making sure they use it!) is difficult enough, and changing our address at all those sites you've registered is too big a job to contemplate!
To get around this I use an address from email.com. It will forward any email sent to it to another address of my choice. This means that if I change ISP (which I have a few times) I don't need to do anything other than go to the web site and change the forwarding address.
I don't use the email.com web-mail features, so I couldn't really comment much on them. However the site is pretty easy to use when I go there, except for it's irritating branding with NBCi. Since they're the ones paying for it all I suppose I can put up with it though!
One of the top points about using this service is that you get an address of [yourname]@email.com . This looks good, and is pretty easy to describe to someone. If your address is currently something long and awkward from your ISP then using this may well be useful.
I've found messages are forwarded promptly, with very little difference to them being sent straight to my ISP.
The only problem with using this to forward your emails is when they go down for maintenance. This means that you con't get your mail for a while. This generally only happens for a few hours though, and I've only had problems with it 2 or 3 times in the last 18 months or so.
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May 19th, 2001
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