# How often do you check your email? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981 "2003-03-21T02:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheCheshireCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@TheCheshireCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCheshireCat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/21 "2003-03-22T04:11:57Z")
I have my e-mail at work running all day, so it gives me a little envelope when new mail comes, which is cool. I check my home e-mail almost every night, but not usually during the day … What on earth did we do before email??? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/22 "2003-03-22T05:15:45Z")
It depends. I guess the correct answer is “constantly.” I have several email addresses all for different purposes - my “entertainment” email (the one linked below), my ebay email, my work-related emails (two) and my “family & friends” email. Depending what’s going on where in my life, I’m almost always expecting email from SOMEONE. I also have DSL, so it’s a piece o’ cake to leave the computer on all day and check it every time I walk past. (Or even never get out of my computer chair…) ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/23 "2003-03-22T05:38:13Z")
I check twice a day usually, once in the morning and once about right now. I also have an anonymous acount at Yahoo that I check once every week or so. It usually has nothing but spam. ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/24 "2003-03-22T07:51:42Z")
Which box? I leave my mail client on through the day, so I am notified when it discovers there is new mail on any of the several addresses it monitors (every 10 minutes). I also use Trillian as my chat client and it notifies me when new mail arrives at my Yahoo and Hotmail addresses. I check them only once a day, as they have become compromised. **Crusoe** , Trillian uses the Yahoo and MSN protocols, so you should recieve a notification from the server about every email you recieve at either of those services. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/25 "2003-03-22T07:57:01Z")
2-3 times a day… ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/26 "2003-03-22T08:17:30Z")
4-5 if I’m at the computer. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/27 "2003-03-22T08:25:26Z")
All the freaking time . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981/28 "2003-03-22T08:28:09Z")
I have my email notifier set to check once per minute, so I get my mail more or less instantly. For those of you with AIM, there’s an email checker built right in, and I highly recommend it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-your-email/162981.md?page=1)