How many email accounts do you have?

The other day I was talking with my sister and she'd mentioned that she'd forgotten her password and hints for her yahoo email account. She'd pretty much resigned herself to simply adding yet another email account. I thought there must be a way to save that old account. I was far more concerned about it than she was, and it wasn't even "my stuff". I went to the yahoo help page for mail and they seemed to have a reasonable procedure to get it reset. Enter your id, dob and home zipcode. Perhaps I should sent her an email and cite the link? No, that would be too easy. I shouldn't send it to her work email since it's not work related. I guess I'll need to call her on the telephone. But wait, perhaps I could do it for her. Since she's my sister I know the private answers like dob and home zip code. I need to give this a try. I got past those items just fine, but then I hit the challenge question. What's your pet's name? Hey man, I even knew her pets and xpets names, but none of em worked. The next option is to send your password to the alternate email address she used at registration. I know I've got it someone in one of my email stashes, but it too will be useless since she certainly doesn't have a "current" account with any of those old or defunct ISPs. My next attempt was to fill out the form and continue to impersonate my sister. Now how long before (if) yahoo customer care responds? That answer may have to wait since I need to get off the tangential disertation on yahoo email.
For me I've got at least three external email addresses at work. One follows the form FirstName.LastName@MyWorkCompany.com which is the one I like best. It's actually an alias to an internal id in the form employeeNbr@InaccessibleInternalHost.MyWorkCompany.com. It also has other external usable aliases in the form FirstInitialLastName@MyWorkCompany.com and FirstInitialLastName2@MyWorkCompany.com. Why do I have two of these? Glad you asked. Someone else at MyWorkCompany has the same first name and last name as I do. I got the first email address for the conflict, but when the folks doling out addresses realized that first initial wasn't nearly unique enough the added a number on the end. I didn't get the #2 suffix until some simpleton remapped my email to someone else with the same last name as me and the same first initial. After arguing at length with the miscreants I got #2. Perhaps a year later I was saved with FirstName.LastName. My namesake at work also shares the first three letters of his middle name with me. Needless to say we get each other's email and phone calls from time to time. The buffoons at our dental care provider also have chalked up some of his dental care work to my account. I tried to fix that but I found it too infuriating and hopeless. Yet I digress again giving me some fodder for a future rant.
For personal email I use hotmail for anything I'm unsure about. It is my high risk account and littered with oodles of spam. Hotmail does do a good job of filtering out the crap, placing perhaps 95% in the junk folder. This account was my first "free" one, but feel out of favor when I continually bumped up against that spacious 1MB cap and when they removed POP email access from the "free" package. Why would I ever want to pay for free email? I won't and you don't have to either.
Next came yahoo since it had free POP server access for multiple accounts, decent spam filtering and an excellent address book. I use this account for much of my personal, untethered email. I am carefull about who I give this account out to. The space is a bit limiting at 100MB, but that's much better than the 4MB it used to be. Actually the 4MB for yahoo vs 1MB for hotmail was another key reason at the time for going to yahoo.
At home I've got RoadRunner and currently have only two email accounts there. One is for myself and the other is for my wife. The kids don't have em there yet & most likely they don't need em. My son does have a yahoo account and a google mail account, but doesn't use them as much as I'd thought. I read most of my rr email through the POP server access in yahoo.
What email discussion would be complete without google mail. I got an invite for it from a coworker about six months ago. I joined up since it was "free" and more importantly I could grab up to 1GB of space. This is much harder than one might think. I do like the "labels" feature of gmail for categorizing emails with multiple tags which can later be used to retrieve them. Ever have an email that covers multiple subjects and you have to pick only one folder to file it in? The search is very cool, as are many things with google. Google mail does lack two important features that I need. One is a better address book with lists. The other is the ability to search attachments. I emailed a small splattering of perhaps 10MB of "technical" documents I've amassed over the years that I'm sure I'll need again in furvent anticipation that I'd be able to search them. NOT! The only way I can make them searchable is to email inbound to google as inline text attachments. Yek!
Since I knew that someday 1GB would be inadequate I recently ran across an interesting blog post citing a site called hellacious riders (http://www.hriders.com) which offerred 1TB of space. Now that's what I really need. I like that I can email files directly to folders on hdriders.com. Ignore for a moment that I've only used 2% of my gmail account to date. Now my problem is how do I send large video and audio files to that account? I'll have to search around for some piece of software to get it done or write something.
How many email accounts do you have and what do you use them for?