Reply #17: Yahoo or Hotmail.

[Xithras]

Old, but reliable. I have SBC DSL, so Yahoo is my default webmail client. My GMail accounts actually forward/copy any inbound messages to that account. My only complaint about Yahoo mail is that it's sloooowwww. At certain times of the day, it can take up to 30 minutes for them to process an inbound message and post it to your account. This normally isn't a problem, but there have been a few instances where I've needed a message right away and couldn't deal with the delay. I use GMail for those.

And my 13 year old Hotmail account is still puttering along just fine. It's gone through a number of various incarnations, interfaces, and rebrandings, but it works just as well today as it did when I first registered it in 1997. It's my old school go-to account that all of my friends, family, and old co-workers know they can reach me at.