Tom Chuong, SEO

When your favorite online email provider is down, what do you do? Well, first you shouldn’t be asking yourself this question. If you do any work online, you always want to make sure you have redundant email services. When I say redundant email services, I’m referring to following:

• Yahoo Mail
• Hotmail.com
• InBox.com
• AIM Mail

Most of you reading this probably already have an account with one of these companies.

I’m guilty of using Gmail exclusively for all of my personal, and business email communication. In the past 3 months, I’ve seen Gmail  go down twice. And usually within a few minutes or hours, it will work again.

What do you do when you want to check your other email addresses that are not Gmail based? In this case, you could use the free email client that came with your computer. If you’re using a PC, you probably already have Outlook Express or Outlook preinstalled for you. Simply open your email client, and input your email login information  to access your non-Gmail accounts.

Keep in mind that Outlook Express or Outlook are both great application for checking emails.  Unfortunately,  they could crash if the emails in your Inbox exceeds several thousands. In fact, I’ve seen cases where Outlook Express would frequently crashed simply because the user has about a thousand emails in their InBox. To prevent this issue, I suggest that you use Outlook instead of Outlook Express. It’s more stable, but I’ve also seen similar problems with Outlook too.

Other popular and free email programs that you could use are:

• eudora.com 7.1
• Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
• Pegasus Mail 4.41

The point here being is that you don’t want to be caught without your email client not working. If you have other recommendations, please post your comment . Thank you!