08-01-2003 18:43									#1
	What's the best free email service? Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I'm getting more and more fed up with Hotmail, to be honest. It has a nasty habit of courrupting attachments, pop-ups have appeared all over the place and the 2MB limit is too restricting.

Can anybody recommend something better?

	08-01-2003 18:45									#2
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I kinda like Yahoo. My account attracts very little spam. And when it does, it gets pre-sorted into a junk box away from the important stuff. Hotmail is nothing but a spam magnet. Let it fade away.

	08-01-2003 19:09									#3
	Tired of ads?

More and more spam has been escaping the bulk folder on yahoo lately, but it's pretty easy to spot and dump (unless you have friends named Delore6573x who routinely e-mail you about weight loss and penis enlargement). Plus, I've never had a problem with attachments and they have a 6 mb limit (on storage; is that what you meant?). I'd second the vote for yahoo.

	08-01-2003 19:09									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

I agree. Yahoo is by far the best free email service out there. 6 Mb of space, spam filters, special folders for junkmail, etc. You name it they´ve got it!

	08-01-2003 19:44									#5
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Does anyone have any better than yahoo? I have created an email adress at yahoo.com, but they gave me an .com.uk at the end... I don't want to have an .uk or .dk, I just want a .com ...

	08-01-2003 20:01									#6
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http://www.emailaddresses.com/

site where to find lots of free mail addresses

	08-01-2003 20:45									#7
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i get so much span in hotmail that... err i get so much spam

ive wanted to change accounts
yahoo sounds nice from what u say

	08-01-2003 20:46									#8
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

but when i tried t0 register (and i did) thenit wouldnt recognize my new adress! it would say handle does not exist!

both in greek yahoo (which is mail and some other services, not news) and the american one

plus i think its better not to trust small email service providers.

better go with the big ones,

	08-01-2003 21:35									#9
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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.

	08-01-2003 21:43									#10
	Tired of ads?

quote: Originally posted by ADG Does anyone have any better than yahoo? I have created an email adress at yahoo.com, but they gave me an .com.uk at the end... I don't want to have an .uk or .dk, I just want a .com ...

Did you register at the UK site? If not, why would you get a .uk suffix? Since you can register completely anonomously (and untracably if you use a proxy) they should make no assumption about where you live!

	08-01-2003 21:44									#11
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I like MyWay:

- 6 MB mailbox
- No advertising (no banners, no popups, nothing)
- Personal customizable "homepage" where you can have your local weather, the latest news, the latest sports scores et cetera.

	08-01-2003 21:48									#12
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Here's a screenshot of my personal MyWay page to give you an idea:

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	08-01-2003 23:27									#13
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Hotmail sucks. Spam, spam and spam. Anything is better than that.

	08-01-2003 23:48									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Alexnm Hotmail sucks. Spam, spam and spam. Anything is better than that.

Anybody remember when Hotmail wasn't owned by Microsoft?

	09-01-2003 02:02									#15
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You mean back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and a 500 Mb HD was a HUGE disk?

	09-01-2003 02:17									#16
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Hotmail sucks, I agree, but it's just too much hassle to change off it...

	09-01-2003 03:37									#17
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quote: 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.

	09-01-2003 03:57									#18
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I like the sound of fastmail. I'll check it out.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

	09-01-2003 06:15									#19
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quote: 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.

	09-01-2003 06:34									#20
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Static23 ... this is what softhome gave me:

quote:     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. For sales, marketing, general information, please contact info@SoftHome.net For technical support, please contact support@SoftHome.net To report SoftHome related SPAM, send email to abuse@SoftHome.net You can call us at +1 970 225-2370. Copyright © 1996-2002 SoftHome. All rights reserved.

	09-01-2003 06:49									#21
	Suffering from ads?

quote: 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

	09-01-2003 07:02									#22
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

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

Looks like they don't like New Zealanders

	09-01-2003 07:23									#23
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Yahoo works fine for me. but I have never tried any others.

	09-01-2003 07:35									#24
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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.

	09-01-2003 07:47									#25
	Tired of ads?

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.

	09-01-2003 09:27									#26
	Tired of ads?

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

	09-01-2003 09:44									#27
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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!

	09-01-2003 16:35									#28
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Hotmail has a "check all" button too.

Observe:

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