Do I need another mail account other than mac?

This may be a dumb question, but here goes: as I use my desktop mac mail for sending and receiving all of my mail, including sbc/yahoo mail, I'm wondering why I need the second. Is it because they provide my internet access?
If I used solely mac mail, I'd still have to pay a provider, right? And I'd have the option of using, or not using that mail account, correct?
Now that I'm getting more into dotmac mail on the web, which allows me to access all of my mail from any computer, I'm using yahoo less and less.
Do you see where I'm going? Trying to slim down my Internet travels.
Thanks!

Hi Elaine,
You can access your other existing email accounts through Mail.app which it sounds like you are doing, so keeping other email addresses, in addition to .Mac, is purely up to you. Quite a few folks have more than one email address for different purposes if for no other reason than a "junk" address for web sites that require an email address for access. Keeping a "clean" email address for family, friends and personal contacts can be very helpful if you get a lot of spam.
Email accounts are almost always offered thru an internet provider, and not taking advantage of them will not reduce your providers monthly bill. What you are paying for is the access to the internet, whether it be dial up, DSL, or something else. Free email accounts are available from a multitude of different services - Gmail, Netscape, AOL, Yahoo, etc.
You can drop or add email accounts at will. Since you are a subscriber, a look at .Mac Mail aliases might also provide some insight and alternatives.
Apple does not provide internet access, so you still need your provider. .Mac is simply a group of tools and a service integrated together and sold by Apple.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck,
John
G5Dual 2Ghz  23" ACD  iSight Mac OS X (10.4.8)  20" Intel iMac 

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