OT- recommend a free mailbox?

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Randy Bard wrote:
|
.....

| http://www.fastmail.fm/
| The "Guest" Acct. is free with 10MB storage. It really is
| fast! There are many ingenious advanced features; no spying
| and no ads, but they do put a tagline on your outgoing.

Taglines = abuseware.
I hate taglines. I hate all unwanted advertising. Period.
So, these jokers are using your emails to advertise to me. That's
abusive.

Richard
 
ms | Softhome reads like a lot of spam to me.
| Quote:
| Advertising: We advertise to you two ways.
| One way is through traditional banner ads when you use our
| web-based email service.
| The other way is through email-based ads. Our email-based ads
| are delivered to you at an average rate of at most one per day.
| end quote
|
| Comment?
|
| Mike Sa

Yeah. To Randy:
Look. My cousin uses Yahoo webmail. He's already paying for real
internet service, including email. Perhaps he receives
"conveniences."
However, the mail he sends me pisses me off. He gets angry
replies from me.
I Do Not Yahoo! I Will Never Yahoo!

In short, if you want to be my friend. Don't even think of
sending me anything that carries an advertisement.

Richard
 
DC wrote

||| Feb 19, 2004
|
||| The MyRealBox system will continue to no longer accept new
||| accounts at this time.
|
|| Right, apparently a nice one, but not available.
|| Mike Sa
|
| Not lately. Lots of hardware failures/service interruptions
| -- I am slowly migrating to GMX.net.

What's GMX.net?

I have not experienced "Lots" of interruptions on MyRealBox. It
happens from time to time. The deal, of course, is that you are
always a beta tester for Novell's commercial email products.
That's the bargain; one does not get something for nothing. It
has been an OK deal for me. Perhaps it will end soon. For sure,
we can't recommend it to anyone right now.

Richard
 
As I understand it, webmail means my email is stored in my mailbox on
their server, I assume I can review there, download from there, delete
on the server. Then to send, I go to the site, compose my message and
when it sends, a copy goes to my server mailbox. Does this sound right?
Correct.

Softhome reads like a lot of spam to me.
Quote:
Advertising: We advertise to you two ways.
One way is through traditional banner ads when you use our web-based
email service.
The other way is through email-based ads. Our email-based ads are
delivered to you at an average rate of at most one per day.
end quote

Comment?

Mike Sa
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I have had a POP account at softhome.net for six months and I've yet
to receive any spam. I check softhome via my fastmail account ;-)
 
What's GMX.net?

I have not experienced "Lots" of interruptions on MyRealBox. It
happens from time to time. The deal, of course, is that you are
always a beta tester for Novell's commercial email products.
That's the bargain; one does not get something for nothing. It
has been an OK deal for me. Perhaps it will end soon. For sure,
we can't recommend it to anyone right now.
Click to expand...
Used to use Myrealbox..still do for some 'non critical' addys, but got
fed up of the outages and the slowness ( though it does have some
powerful features )....have been with GMX for years now, and it
outperforms some services I pay for!

Regard,
 
As I understand it, webmail means my email is stored in my mailbox on
their server, I assume I can review there, download from there, delete
on the server. Then to send, I go to the site, compose my message and
when it sends, a copy goes to my server mailbox. Does this sound right?
Click to expand...

I use fastmail.fm (ftml.net) as an aux mailbox/ID and have no problems
in setting it up as an alternate account/ID in Mozilla mail.

Mozilla checks for IMAP msgs, and I send through my main smtp server
with the ftml ID, and can check/reply from any browser.

Fast and works great.
 
Burp said:
Well..... this free offering has been around awhile and it has been reliable
for me:

http://mail.adnmail.com/adn/login/login.asp

It's a freebie offered by an on-line newspaper.... that Anchorage (Alaska)
Daily News.

Considering the low population of that area and that the free offering isn't
advertised I expect the servers to never be overwhelmed!!!!!!!

Of course, YMMV.

Happy mailing!!!!!

Oh..... as a plus. You don't have to have active scripting enabled for the
site to work.... a plus in my book.
Click to expand...

It does seem like a nice one, but after signing up, I posted a test
message to myself 5 hours ago, still don't see it.

I notice the web pages need Firebird as a browser.

Mike Sa
 
This topic came up at Fatwallet recently :
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18&threadid=205238
Here's the post that started it :

Yahoo is charging $30/year for such features! Hotmail is charging $20
for such features with only a 10M mail box!

I will never think of paying to have email. Here are a few good free
email services.

Please give your opinion too if you are knowledgable on this issue.

1. www.myrealbox.com
Pros: 10MB, IMAP, SMTP, Forwarding, No Ad/Spam so far, a big-name
provider.
Cons: May have serivce outrage time. Will ONLY accept new user from
time to time.

2. www.hotpop.com
Pros: 10MB, Pop3, SMTP, forwarding up to 3 addresses.
Cons: No IMAP

3. fusemail.net
Pros: Has everything except POP3.
Cons: The site states that it will charge in the future.

4. fastmail.fm
Pros: 10MB, IMAP, auto-retrieval of other emails & hotmail, advanced
spam filter, stable company
Cons: No free SMTP, forwarding limited bandwidth (40M/month).

5. vfemail.net
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 15MB space
Cons: 15 MB band width /month

6. safe-mail.net
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Secure protocols(**valuable)
Cons: only 3MB space free.

7. ezrs.com
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 20 MB space, short domain name and possible
user name.
Cons: Down time. Server IS in Hong Kong. No chargable plans. Don't
know how they can survive.

8. (by nukem) BlueBottle
Pros: SMTP, 10 MB space, Challenge-response system, hotmail retrieval.
Cons: Challenge-response system (it could be both good and bad).
Live again.

9. mail15.com
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 15 MB space
Cons: No chargable plans. Don't know how they can survive.

X. DEAD!!!!!! no longer support POP3 www.gawab.com
Pros: 15MB, POP3, SMTP, forwarding by filters, No Ad in emails so far.
Cons: No IMAP, online help is not good.

Message edited by: tomprc on 02/09/2004 09:08:59
 
Randy said:
I have had a POP account at softhome.net for six months and I've yet
to receive any spam. I check softhome via my fastmail account ;-)
Click to expand...

Thanks, Randy. It was your comment above that decided me to try
softhome. I don't like the personal information form you have to fill
out, it's only purpose is spam, but we'll see. Anyway, I signed up, sent
myself a message, got it in 5 minutes, deleted it, that's all I want in
a free account. That form is funny, I can check "retired", but *have* to
check what my job title is, what I do, etc. Anyway, it works.

I tried the Alaskan server, but after 6 hours, I still don't see my
message, so it's a puzzle.

Mike Sa
 
VH said:
This topic came up at Fatwallet recently :
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18&threadid=205238
Here's the post that started it :

Yahoo is charging $30/year for such features! Hotmail is charging $20
for such features with only a 10M mail box!

I will never think of paying to have email. Here are a few good free
email services.

Please give your opinion too if you are knowledgable on this issue.

1. www.myrealbox.com
Pros: 10MB, IMAP, SMTP, Forwarding, No Ad/Spam so far, a big-name
provider.
Cons: May have serivce outrage time. Will ONLY accept new user from
time to time.

2. www.hotpop.com
Pros: 10MB, Pop3, SMTP, forwarding up to 3 addresses.
Cons: No IMAP

3. fusemail.net
Pros: Has everything except POP3.
Cons: The site states that it will charge in the future.

4. fastmail.fm
Pros: 10MB, IMAP, auto-retrieval of other emails & hotmail, advanced
spam filter, stable company
Cons: No free SMTP, forwarding limited bandwidth (40M/month).

5. vfemail.net
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 15MB space
Cons: 15 MB band width /month

6. safe-mail.net
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Secure protocols(**valuable)
Cons: only 3MB space free.

7. ezrs.com
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 20 MB space, short domain name and possible
user name.
Cons: Down time. Server IS in Hong Kong. No chargable plans. Don't
know how they can survive.

8. (by nukem) BlueBottle
Pros: SMTP, 10 MB space, Challenge-response system, hotmail retrieval.
Cons: Challenge-response system (it could be both good and bad).
Live again.

9. mail15.com
Pros: IMAP, SMTP, POP3, 15 MB space
Cons: No chargable plans. Don't know how they can survive.

X. DEAD!!!!!! no longer support POP3 www.gawab.com
Pros: 15MB, POP3, SMTP, forwarding by filters, No Ad in emails so far.
Cons: No IMAP, online help is not good.

Message edited by: tomprc on 02/09/2004 09:08:59
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Thanks for the info.

Mike Sa
 
I had posted this in alt.comp.freeware.discussion, got one response.

Need to do something soon, so am trying here.

As a secondary account, I need a free mail account, to send and receive
mail.

I want one with minimal ads/spam, no spyware.

Can I get some recommendations for one that has worked
out well?

Mike Sa
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My Real Box
http://www.myrealbox.com
Very reliable for the last ~3 years and spam free, too.
Don't pay attention to the disclaimer(s). I've yet to have problems.

regards

Dud
 
My Real Box
http://www.myrealbox.com
Very reliable for the last ~3 years and spam free, too.
Don't pay attention to the disclaimer(s). I've yet to have problems.
Click to expand...

Then you don't use them every day. They just suffered a *major* outage.
I even lost mail on this one.

And they are not spam free. No service can claim that.

Besides, they aren't accepting new customers for the time being.
 
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