What's the best free email service?

[Clear Skies]

Hotmail sucks, I agree, but it's just too much hassle to change off it...

[Grrr]

Originally posted by Starchild
fastmail.fm

Fast, efficient, and lots a room. There's a free version and a paid version with the difference being in terms of storage and bandwidth. Though the free one has all the room and bandwidth I'll ever need.

Agreed ... except you forgot to mention:
Free IMAP (use whatever clinet you want)
Fully customize/skinable interface
Able to handle LARGE attachments (ie no problems recieving 8MB files in email)
'Bounce' - most useful feature ever! If there is someone you don't like emailing you ... this sends them an email that your net@ddress does not exist.
FAST interfaces.


And about all that room ... I have currently got 1543 emails sitting in my inbox ... try doing that elsewhere without junk.

[FrustratedPoet]

I like the sound of fastmail. I'll check it out.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
You mean back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and a 500 Mb HD was a HUGE disk?

My roommate has a whole box of around 35 mb HDs he refuses to toss out.

I use http://www.softhome.net for my email. It's free, can be accessed from both the web or a pop3 email reader like Outlook, which is great for travelling.

They're the best spam blockers I've ever seen. I get nothing, and I mean nothing from anybody I don't know.

[Grrr]

Static23 ... this is what softhome gave me:

Spammers go away! Our policy is zero tolerance. Dropboxes are not allowed. Mass mailing is not allowed.

Signups from your region of the internet have been temporarily suspended.

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[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
I like the sound of fastmail. I'll check it out.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I use fastmail too, and all I can add is

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Grrr
Static23 ... this is what softhome gave me:

Looks like they don't like New Zealanders

[Dis]

Yahoo works fine for me. but I have never tried any others.

[alva]

The only reason I have a hotmail account is to register and to divert spam mails


I used to have a yahoo account, better then hotmail.

[The Vagabond]

Hotmail sucks indeed. And the problem is not just huge amounts of spam. I've got the impression that they have been gradually introducing tougher and tougher policies in order to extort your enrollment in the paid service. You can't feel safe that one day they won't unexpectedly introduce some stupid "innovation" that will affect you. For example, a few months ago they decided that emails saved in the "sent" folder should automatically be deleted after 30 days. Hell, I discovered this "innovation" only after my whole storage, accumulated for years, had suddenly disappeared.

[korn469]

i have yahoo, a hotmail, and a mail.com email addresses

yahoo is maybe the all around best, it has low amounts of spam in your in box, good reliable service, lots of storage space, plus it doesn't expire...with hotmail you go out of town for a while you lose everything!

hotmail is a good service except for the spam, policies designed to get you to pay for their service, and the relatively suckiness of msn messenger

email.com is the least reliable service and it has the fewest features, but it is virtually spam free, and has a good amount of storage

[Tuberski]

My wife has a hotmail account, and she hates the fact that you have to check the box for each e-mail individually to delete them. While I, with my Yahoo account, can simply click on check all and then delete them all at once.

ACK!

[FrustratedPoet]

Hotmail has a "check all" button too.

Observe: