Comments on: How Often Do You Check Your Email?

By: Markus Zeller

Markus Zeller — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:48:50 +0000

I was used to check it every 5 minutes to be fast on reacting to them.

But today, I set Mail to load them only once per hour. More often would dramatically reduce my productivity.

By: nickjuly4

nickjuly4 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:01:03 +0000

I used to check my email everyday, but now since I get way too much spam I check it every once or twice a week, but MSN Messenger (which is always running when I’m on my Computer) always notifies me when I get a new email even when I’m not on my email program.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:13:24 +0000

emailed Chris this one already and got a cool response. Guess I will share this gem here too. I use a pretty cool program called Magic Mail Monitor which is Open Source. It allows to to check all your email and selective delete or read as text messages as well. If you want to read the message as intended, you can save the file as a .eml (not sure if Win7 can open .eml files) or a .mht .

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm3/

By: James Young

James Young — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:38:12 +0000

I use my iPhone to cheach and send emails. It is set up so that it cheacks for new ones every 15 min., so I guess you could say that I’m always looking at my email at lest mote then most people.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:04:33 +0000

Between the iPhone and a GMail add-on for Firefox, I am always aware of my email status. However, I spend about a third of my computer time wandering through my feeds and checking out new technologies on Web2.0. My web server and domains take up another third, checking logs, analyzing stats, and seeing what people copy from my site using Tynt Tracer. The rest of the time I am checking out new Linux distributions or web apps.

By: jose ignacio hernandez

jose ignacio hernandez — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:57:44 +0000

In my work I have the mail always on. And activated the option in Thunderbird to advise of incoming mails.
At home, I check at night my mail. (First I read Lockergnome newsletter). May be an hour. No more.

By: David Banther

David Banther — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:37:13 +0000

I consider Apple Mail my “third arm”, I do not know what I would do without it.

By: Wrath Oskvro

Wrath Oskvro — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:11:23 +0000

I normally check my e-mail at least 3 times a day. If I’m expecting something, I’ll check it more than that. I tend to check it fairly often because I’ve got a couple RSS feeds that I’m subscribed to, using Mozilla Thunderbird. As for other things that I typically do, I’m always on Pidgin (using most of the clients that it has) and I’ll often use TweetDeck. foobar2000 for listening to music. :)

By: Ken Richmond

Ken Richmond — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:35 +0000

I normally check my email several times per week. I do not check it daily. If I have pictures to enter onto one of my hard drives & to edit, they take priority.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:12:38 +0000

I have Outlook open all the time and most of the time I always check it immediately when I hear the “new email” sound.

By: Auriette

Auriette — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:44:32 +0000

At work we use Outlook, and I have two e-mail addresses that funnel into the software. It’s open all the time, but sometimes I don’t refresh for a couple of hours if I’m really slammed.

At home, I keep one e-mail open almost all the time. I check my other personal e-mail accounts anywhere from once a week to once a month.

By: fus

fus — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:30:49 +0000

Fetych new data on my iPhone is arranged for every 15 minutes, but on my MacBook for every 1 minut so basically I never check my e-mail.
The same with Facebook, when I’m not using it on laptop I check it on iPhone app several times during one hour.
It’s so depresing how are we devoted to being in touch every second.

By: Actionvance

Actionvance — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:26:45 +0000

I too am in a perpetual state of checking email. This is why, when I am working away from a base location my gadgets burn through batteries.

On vacation, I check it daily, or a few times per day, at most.

By: Mattjsrules

Mattjsrules — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:26:14 +0000

I have it open constantly on my computer and my iPhone.

By: prowse

prowse — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:56:04 +0000

I just set mine to sms me if it is directly to me, otherwise it can wait.