What's The Best Email?

[+ Lucky]

Yahoo is getting more difficult with all the downloads on the webpage and the stupid pop-ups they are adding over my email.

 

What is a good one? I am willing to pay a fee to aavoid the nuisances.

[Spida]

I like gmail, it is googles new mail, it allows you 1gb of space. It also puts emails together in a thread mode. So when you send an email and they respond they are setup as "parent" "child" relationships.

 

The only problem I see with this is when a bunch of people respond to the same email. Other than that it works very well if you want an invitation I have some in my inbox (you have to be invited at this point) send me an email through the site and I will send you an invitation.

 

Spida

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

listing of free email addys

http://sitefreenet.virtualave.net/free_email-a-c.htm

 

10MB storage

http://www.fastmail.fm

http://www.graffiti.net/

15MB storage

http://emailchoice.com/

20MB storage

http://inbox.net/

http://mail.uk2.net/

40MB storage

http://login.mail.eudoramail.com/

50MB storage

http://www.myownemail.com

http://www.totalise.net/

http://in-box.net/

100MB storage

http://www.freeserve.com/

UNLIMITED storage

http://www.unlimited-mail.com/

http://www.onemarq.com/

http://www.freeuk.com/

http://www.eboxmail.net/

http://www.boxfrog.com/

**unsure of storage

http://www.outgun.com/

http://www.emailaddresses.com/

http://www.freecenter.com/

http://graffiti.net/

For Italian speaking members:

MSN Extra Storage: piena libertà di esprimersi e comunicare

http://www.msn.it/msnservizi/es/?xAPID=534&DI=1044&SU=http://hotmail.it/&HL=HMTAGTX_MSN_Extra_Storage

http://www.groupsaccess.com/

From 100 mb to 2 GB of space. $4.17 a month as of 11-18-03.

[+ deej]

That's sorta like asking "what's the best car?" :+

 

Without more information, what works for someone else may not work for you.

 

Personally, I absolutely refuse to rely on a free email account as my primary account. The problem with "free" is they can decide any time to discontinue it. They can also change it any way they like and you can't do a doggone thing because of course you're not a paying customer.

 

(I do HAVE a couple of free accounts, mostly as spam collectors, but I don't rely on them for primary communications.)

 

Changing your email address is a PITA. You have to remember everyone who might have it on file and notify them (and hopefully they'll all notice) and invevitably somebody important gets left behind.

 

For that reason, I long ago registered my own domain and have it hosted at a reasonably priced hosting company. That way whether it's changing jobs, or whatever, my primary email address just doesn't change. You don't even need a website. Just a domain. You can take the domain to a better hosting company any time.

 

I realize this option doesn't appeal to the non-tecchies among us. But having an email address I know will never change is highly valuable to me.

[Steven_Draker]

Re: Yahoo!

 

>Yahoo is getting more difficult with all the downloads on the

>webpage and the stupid pop-ups they are adding over my email.

 

Lucky, I am more than happy with my Yahoo! account and will not change it for anything else. Have you tried to get a pop-up killer ?

 

With 250 MB, efficient anti-spam and ability to block/blacklist undesirable people I have to add the clarity and the nice layout ... I'll stick with Yahoo!

[+ Lucky]

RE: Re: ARI Yahoo!

 

The pop-up comes from Yahoo. It's a WoeMart ad and it is pretty obnoxious.

 

I do have a domain name hosted by Yahoo. I would love to transfer it. But where?

[+ deej]

RE: Re: ARI Yahoo!

 

>I do have a domain name hosted by Yahoo. I would love to

>transfer it. But where?

 

Finding cheap hosts is easy. Google "cheap hosting". ;-)

 

But if it's currently hosted by Yahoo, are you sure you own it? For a while they were acting as registrar for domains, and the kicker is that they own the domain. You just rent it from them.

 

I dunno if you fall into that group.

 

If you really own the domain, you can take it anywhere you want.

[FourAces]

RE: Re: ARI Yahoo!

 

>The pop-up comes from Yahoo. It's a WoeMart ad and it is

>pretty obnoxious.

>

>I do have a domain name hosted by Yahoo. I would love to

>transfer it. But where?

 

At the risk of being a "dittohead" I copied the above for clarity. I have my own domain and I use that as my primary email address. It's parked for free at godaddy.com and I pay all of 9.95 per year for their extensive email service. I have yet to find a better deal of combination pop and web based email service and application.

 

RT

[Vincent_Michael]

GMAIL? I heard that had some major security issues

[Vincent_Michael]

I actully use Yahoo all the time, I do pay for it as I prefer the upgrade...It gives you allot of plus features. I do think if you use Yahoo or MSN you should get all your e-mail through outlook that way you dont get allot of ads.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

> The problem with "free" is they

>can decide any time to discontinue it. They can also change it

>any way they like and you can't do a doggone thing because of

>course you're not a paying customer.

>

 

I don't think that for-profit providers offer that much more security as they can 'go under'. And the free providers would have to change their business model from the ground up -- something I put at a lower probability than them being 'bought out'. More of a worry IMO is the eventual institution of a mandatory service charge. But that is unlikely in the current competitive market. However, your point is taken about owing your domain name for ultimate reliability.

 

 

>(I do HAVE a couple of free accounts, mostly as spam

>collectors, but I don't rely on them for primary

>communications.)

>

 

 

Lol... someone likes spam enough to set up special accounts to collect it. :+

[JamesK840]

Not Hotmail!

 

Just wanted to chime in and say Hotmail blows too, and not in a good way. I'm amazed how often it has trouble or is totally down. May switch to Gmail.

 

V-M, I'm not sure the "issues" people had with gmail amounted to much. Yes, they may pickup certain words in an email and target advertising, but the service has to be paid for somehow and they promise confidentiality. I would guess their written policies are much better for the consumer then Hotmail's or Yahoo's.

 

It's a beta at the moment, so there may be a couple security problems, and the storage model is different so others are afraid of that (though I'm sure Hotmail and Yahoo are moving towards the same one), but I think in the end it'll probably be the best one going.

 

One of these days Hotmail's gonna piss me off enough to switch!

 

Deej is right though, if your livelihood depends on it 'free' is probably not the way to go. Even if you pay for service escorts should read all the terms carefully, keep backups of websites (and use a POP client to download mail) so you can switch should they be bought out or become offended by your work.

[+ deej]

>I don't think that for-profit providers offer that much more

>security as they can 'go under'.

 

Big deal. ;-) You take your domain name to another host and you've survived and you're up and running in under an hour. The only thing you lose is any mail not downloaded before the hosting co. goes.

 

>>(I do HAVE a couple of free accounts, mostly as spam

>>collectors, but I don't rely on them for primary

>>communications.)

>

>Lol... someone likes spam enough to set up special accounts

>to collect it. :+

 

Heh. No, but I use those accounts for things like warranty registrations, etc., that are likely to increase the incoming spam.

[Spida]

Vincent,

 

I haven't heard anything about it, having security issues, I will do some research tomorrow. But hey if someone get in all they will get is some pics of naked guys.. Now don't everyone at once try to hack my email.

 

Spida

[Vincent_Michael]

Sorry I don’t think it has security issues however I am pretty sure it does have privacy issues. I also think you should use a pop account as it is allot safer and you will always have a copy of everything. There is not such thing as a totally secure e-mail but you can get closer with a few companies out there.

[Skyyguy]

I've paid the extra # for Yahoo plus. You can keep your existing addy, won't have to learn anything new, increase your mailbox and attachment size, lose the pop-ups.

 

You'll also gain POP access.

[Guest houseboy]

No need to pay for anything if you change your account settings in yahoo from "United States" to "United Kingdom", "Singapore", or "Australia". You will get local (i.e. British, Singaporean or Australian) ads, but no popups, refreshingly subdued advertising, and an idea of what mobile phone services are available to people in those countries. Seriously, yahoo has become much more manageable after I changed my settings and it sure beats having so send out emails to everyone telling them you changed your address.

 

"No running in the house!"

[Steven_Draker]

> the stupid pop-ups they are adding over my email.

 

Lucky, this makes sense when I checked my Yahoo email box this weekend from another computer. Are you talking about the sliding pop-up ad "Take a survey" from left to the right ?

Do you have Norton Internet Security installed on your machine? Norton has an Ad blocking feature which you can configure manually and helps you to get rid of unwanted ad banner and pop-up ads.

[+ Lucky]

No, I didn't get that one! Your opinion matters more to them!

 

Thanks to spida, I am trying out gmail. So far, so good. I am also using the Mozilla Firefox browser much to my satisfaction.

[FourAces]

If others here want to try gmail sendme a inbox message. I have a few invites left that I doubt I will use otherwise.

 

RT

[Kevin Slater]

>If others here want to try gmail sendme a inbox message. I

>have a few invites left that I doubt I will use otherwise.

 

Ditto here.

[Steven_Draker]

> Your opinion matters more to them!

 

I know ... and they know where to find me. However, I'm still getting those ads for breast implants !

[Prime Muscle]

I pay yahoo $20/year for the upgraded services and have not had any problems. It also allows me to manage other accounts. I have a free email for my escort work but it gets forwared to yahoo and I can respond from yahoo with my other email account.