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I recently snagged a coveted invitation to become a GMail email account holder, and I excitedly signed on.

Umm…now what?

I have a new email account with all these really great potential features, but I have no incentive to use it. Let’s count how many emails i have:

1. yahoo - my first web-based email, now almost completely unused because of spam
2. ideoverse - my email for this site and my usual personal email
3. e-utah.org - from when I worked at our Utah office
4. neinetwork - for the Vermont office
5. hotmail - which I have only for IM’ing
6. byu - which I have for life and gets forwarded to my yahoo account

That’s 6 email accounts. 6! And that’s excluding the two email accounts which I administer at work! All of these accounts have access via the web and most have pretty good spam control, both of which GMail provides as well. And then some of my accounts are POP3, allowing me to download into a mail reader, which is something GMail doesn’t offer.

So my question is, what does GMail give me that nothing else does?