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For the company I work for (hotmail|live|msn) addresses come third, making up about 1 in 5 users. That’s actually more than I would have expected, and I suspect is largely due to the audience not being very technically savvy.

GMail just pips Yahoo to the top, both making up about 1 in 3 users each.

Hotmail seems to just magically disappear e-mails at random; they never end up arriving with our customers. Yahoo frequently “defer” delivery until later which can be very annoying when sending out verification e-mails. We’ve never had any problems with GMail delivery at all.

Following the advice on the pages below has helped resolve some of these issues, but if I were a user of these services I’d rather receive the odd spam e-mail or it end up in the junk folder instead of having to wonder if e-mails were occasionally going missing.

http://postmaster.msn.com/

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/post...

I know, I have only had two emails ever sent incorrectly to spam by gmail.

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