I have been using Gmail for just over a month now and like it. I have been running it in tandem with my account at onlymyemail.com - i.e. I have all my email accounts forwarded to both Gmail and my onlymyemail.com account.
Now, onlymyemail.com's claim to fame is that it has an excellent spam blocker but I have found that by creating just a handful of filters in addition to gmail's autmatic spam filtering - I have equal results with gmail - and it is free
The only problem I have is that I am already using over 20% of my 1 GB of space that Gmail gives you - and that is after only a month

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