I simply recommend GMail. (www.gmail.com)
I do, however, understand that from certain lines of business and in certain situations that Outlook is a much more favorable option.-- but for regular plain everyday e-mail, I think GMail is the way to go.
It's not your "traditional" web-based e-mail, such as say, Hotmail or Yahoo which take forever to load, and are at times incredibly difficult to work with. Its a much more fluid solution than web-based e-mail of yesteryear. For the longest time, I too, had despised web-based e-mail. Especially hotmail and optimum online's version of "webmail".
Which, by the way, when I was an OOL subscriber, I used Mozilla Thunderbird as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook.
-Fragzem
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