How are you using Email in 2025

Posted by NoelB on Tuesday, September 30. 2025

Today, I was sitting in my local car dealers Service Dept, knowing I had a couple hours to kill, I signed into their Guest WiFi network and logged into our CRM and did what I needed to, but I couldn't access Email, so I fired up Wireguard, and no go, WWW worked - I was just using it for past 40 minutes, other websites worked as well.

I then fired up other utilities to try different protocols, and quickly realised they are only allowing port 80 and 443, I thought to myself WTF, surely if you are going to offer a guest WiFi in your business, you'd at least allow Email as well as WWW, but this dealer here in North Lakes doesn't seem to think so, or they think that the only Email is Webmail.

It got me thinking, back in 2023 I ran a poll that produced rather surprising results and I wondered what, if anything, has changed since.

So here we are two years later, have people all gone back to one of the privacy invading webmail providers, my thoughts on them have not changed, they offer free Email for a reason, to scan your messages, and target you with advertising, at the very least anyway.

So if you have a spare 5 seconds, we be grateful if you can help us gather some newer statistics by selecting your method on the top right hand side, feel free to share this around.

Poll opened September 30, and will run for one month, if you use multiple options, select the method you use most.