I am a middle-aged person and have been using an email for a long time. I have been quite happy with the service… but all my emails come to this one account. I wanted to know how many emails can I have because I am involved in a lot of community service and local businesses. Ideally, I would like to segregate emails from different senders into separate accounts.
Elaine Randolph
In all the years of teaching people about the internet and the web, I’ve learnt that it’s not the ‘fear’ of digital technology but misinformation that holds most of them back. The newly initiated somehow get this notion that they can have only one email address at one time. This is completely false! You can have as many emails addresses as you can handle
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There is nothing stopping you from creating multiple emails as long as you are able to manage the several accounts. We’ll first take a quick look at some of the free services through which you can get an email and then explore the option of creating your very own email address.
Email address from the many free services
There would be hundreds, if not thousands, of web sites offering free email accounts. The three best email services are from Yahoo, Gmail (Google) and Hotmail. To get many emails simply create an account at each of these… and Yahoo and Gmail even given you a second email address for free! Below are links to other pages in which you’ll find step by step instructions along with screenshots:
Please also refer how to create a second email address at these services – second Hotmail email, another Yahoo email.
How to get your own email address?
There comes a point in a person’s life when he/she wants exclusivity. Though all email addresses are unique, the ones provided by the free services (including those mentioned above) have a common domain name. For instance, all email address from Gmail end with gmail.com.
Wouldn’t it be great if this was ‘unique’ too? Interested? All it requires is a domain name and email hosting both of which are quite cheap. For details, refer the article on how to create your own email address.
Many emails can cause confusion – be careful
Create many emails is one thing and maintaining them without getting confused is another. I suggest you go a little easy – just because you can have many emails doesn’t mean spending all your waking hours creating email accounts. Unless you have a valid reason, 2-3 email accounts are all what a person needs.
Emails can also be arranged and sorted out in a single account. For instance, both Hotmail and Yahoo services let you organize messages in folders. You can even instruct emails to be filtered and segregated into folder when then arrive at your account automatically. Read how to automatically sort emails into folders in Hotmail.
What is wrong with having more than one email address?
There is no problem in having more than one email address. In fact it’s a good idea to segregate your personal and business correspondence.
My mom had an email and now I just signed up for my own. So why isn’t hers still up? There did it get deleted?
No, you’ve just overwritten her saved username and password with yours. Please clean the browser cache and saved password. Your mothers account is very much alive on Yahoo server.