In the past I have expressed my puzzlement about people who use work email or shared email addresses rather than having their own personal email. The solution is obvious – use a free online email service.
GMail is free and it works very well, so why bother to use anything else? You can easily set up multiple GMail addresses if you need them (and forward all the mail to one account if you want to make life easier). You can also receive messages in Outlook, Thunderbird or any other email client if you prefer to work that way.
GMail also has a very effective spam filter, whereas I gave up on Hotmail precisely because I received such huge volumes of spam. Of course Hotmail have been forced to up their game since GMail came along, and have abandoned their crazy idea of charging for POP3 access and extra disk space and whatever else it is they used to do.
Yes, there’s also Yahoo Mail, and I’m sure that’s also wonderful, but none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for GMail.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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