WOF: How many email accounts do you use?

4 here...

1 - Personal (for family only)
2 - Gmail (for general purpose & Android)
3 - Yahoo! (for subscriptions)
4 - Work provided. (Been considering a work subscription account lately.)

I have 3 Work related Email addresses, and 2 personal accounts 1 gmail and 1 yahoo account for newsletter and news related stuff. The Best part is that I'm able to access all of them from one place, as I've configured those email accounts in Taroby www.taroby.com - A web based Email Client.

Except for the occasional instance where the address is spammed (I usually close out the address once I've accounted for correspondance) I haven't had a single item of junk, spam or virus to account for in 5+ years.

I also recommend to friends and clients; etailers, online auctioneers, tech forums, entertainment and educational sites*, and to make as sure as possible I vet every contact for at least three months before recommending to these people. Diverting junk and spam to a folder is all well and good, but using the same address for every sign-up won't tell you where the crap originated from or whose giving out your address.

* I work with the deaf community quite intensively, and deaf people tend to rely more heavily of electronic communication than do non-hearing impaired people, since the simple act of using the phone for instance can be either daunting or impossible for some. The internet also provides many interactive rehabilitation resources for people who have regained some measure of their hearing back through hearing aids, surgery or cochlear implantation-unfortunately the same people who are desperate to re-establish their hearing skills and partake in the normality of the hearing world quite often find themselves falling prey to the more unscrupulous individuals on the net.
Checking seventy-nine addresses (the number varies) isn't a chore compared with keeping grief and stress from the people who have enough on their plate. SInce most people who lose (and sometimes regain) hearing tend to be elderly, being tech-savvy isn't usually high on their life skills achievements.

/climbs off soapbox