When you reach college or start working at an organization or become a freelancer, the once "cool email address" now becomes an "embarrassing funky email address".



Honestly many of us have been there and done that, when we are new on the internet, we never foresee how and when our email addresses become an important part of our identity. This post will help the folks who just got started with the internet and people who regret choosing a non-professional email address in the past and are looking for tips to make a switch.

Here are the top don'ts to consider when choosing a professional email address

Update on 2018:

Cool Hotmail service has been discontinued. All of the Hotmail users have been migrated to Outlook.com now.


Are you bored with @gmail @hotmail @live @yahoo email IDs? or do you have any other boring, very common overused email id? Do you want your personalized email id for free? Yes, your own!

It's possible to get a cool custom email id which reveals your personality, thanks to Microsoft Hotmail.  Hotmail has launched a new service "Cool Hotmail" which lets the existing or new users create a unique email id from a big list of domains. This service is targeted exclusively to Indians at the moment.

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Top mistakes to avoid when choosing the first email address

Are you one who gets hundreds of emails every day? How do you manage them? How do you prioritize them to read, sounds odd? You might waste your working time reading the email that's not so important thinking of any urgent one. You get Twitter, Facebook Linkedin notifications, Wikipedia alerts, comment moderation (regular), etc every day. If you skip, you might need to search them later it huh... They hamper your productivity. A blogger knows this very well - how important is time management!

When you set up your email client you are asked to select your email-server type. The common email clients support the following email servers.

What is Post Office Protocol (POP3)?

POP3 server holds the emails until you download them from your server. When you download the emails it is permanently deleted from the server. Use POP3 if you access emails form a particular system.