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Best E-mail?

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Crow550

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Here's a pretty good list:

http://email.about.com/od/free...iews/tp/free_email.htm

It seems Gmail and AOL/AIM mail are about equal. Has anyone tried both? Which one do you enjoy best? If you have tried both that is.

Yahoo mail seems to be falling behind since it lacks free pop3 support and imap support. As well as poor spam filtering because they want you to upgrade to yahoo mail plus which only offers pop3 and not imap. Kinda sad and now they might join with Microsoft which Hotmail has been getting a bad rep too.

Yahoo mail does win on best webmail interface. Which you can check other pop3 e-mail accounts in yahoo mail.
However adding contacts when composing an e-mail is poor compared to yahoo mail classic which lets you place check marks next to your contacts unlike the new yahoo mail which you have to hold down the ctrl key and click the contacts and you can't see some of the names of your contacts and there alternate e-mail addresses are mixed in too. It's a mess.


Gmail seems pretty solid. I have switched to Gmail and use Thunderbird when checking my e-mail.

What you say is the best free e-mail. I mean who pays for e-mail these days?

Also do you use webmail or an e-mail program like Thunderbird?

 
IMHO ...

Webmail is one of those things that's occasionally quite convenient, but I'd want to jump off a cliff before I was forced to use it "often". So that kind of leaves webmail-centric services out of the picture.

GMAIL = we read all your mail, your privacy belongs to us and our advertisers. No thanks.

Yahoo, Hotmail = pretty much the same.

IMAP = by FAR the best way to read your email with a mail client. Anything that doesn't do IMAP = very sad.

SSL or TLS = only acceptable way to to transport IMAP or POP. If it doesn't do POP/IMAP securely with at least those kinds of encryption / security enroute, it's not worth using.

You said free .. but this is ALMOST free. Pay $5-12 per year and register your own domain somewhere like godaddy.com or wherever you get a good deal. Often your registrar will set you up with free (included in the price) managable DNS service, free webmail, free basic email server service too. So for cheap you get a totally personal domain, POP access to your inboxes (however many you want at that domain, typically), usually webmail, sometimes IMAP. Oh and as long as you keep paying a few bucks a year the domain (i.e. your email address) is YOURS and you NEVER have to worry about changing it if you switch email providers like you would have to if you went from gmail to yahoo or whatever.

For more advanced users you can combine the techniques, e.g. register a domain with a catch-all address, forward all incoming mail to your spamme@gmail.com address and then you can get any of the gmail features / larger inbox in addition to receiving mail with your personal domain address etc.

 
And oh yeah, Thunderbird is OK if you're running Windows.

Outlook = from hell.

KMAIL = better in most ways, though it only runs under UNIX.

Thunderbird + "virtual identity" extension = handy for having multiple email addresses.

 
Originally posted by: Crow550
What you say is the best free e-mail. I mean who pays for e-mail these days?
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People use non-free email when they don't want their email blocked because they are using a free, spam-prone, email service. For instance, you can't get an AnandTech Forum account if you use AOL or several other free email services.

Also, it looks really tacky if you do any business with a free email account. As noted previously, registering your own domain name and contracting for email services from a provider can be pretty cheap.

And, as noted previously, webmail sucks for any serious use.

Yeah, Yahoo mail is ridiculously spam-ridden.
 
RebateMonger . . . QFT!!!

I block all .yahoo, gmail, etc. domains unless I specifically know the sender. Yahoo is one of the worst sources of Spam on the Internet.
 
Gmail to me is technically the best - and I mean that from a usability standpoint. The GUI is quick, responsive, intuitive - I don't mind that "they" read my email because "they" are computers, not my neighbors. Unless your a spy or a terrorist, I wouldn't worry about that.
 
Most seem to use SSL for reading and TLS for sending.

I use e-mail for personal use. Pretty sure Gmail uses bots to scan e-mails for text ads. Plus i thought all e-mail is saved in case Homeland needs it or whatever.

Plus search engines keep a list of sites viewed and high speed providers like Comcast and Qwest keep records.

Just the way it is now days.

Never thought of paying per year for a personal domain though. But I don't see what's wrong with gmail and such.

Found a bunch more here: http://www.thefreesite.com/Ema..._E_mail_services_U_S_/

Some other e-mail stuff: http://www.thefreesite.com/Email_Freebies/


Seems like no one wants to give AOL mail a chance lol. I wanted to hear what people thought of it.
 
I miss the majority of Anandtech thread reply emails due to the email account restrictions...

I use an account that is only used for Anandtech as my regular accounts are either Hotmail or Yahoo and therefore blocked :frown:

Personally I think if you have a decent track record on here you should be able to use hotmail, yahoo etc...

I don't have any favourites out of the lot but the WORST "freemail" service I ever used was Spymac......avoid like the plague!!!!
 
Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
And oh yeah, Thunderbird is OK if you're running Windows.

Outlook = from hell.

KMAIL = better in most ways, though it only runs under UNIX.

Thunderbird + "virtual identity" extension = handy for having multiple email addresses.
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Interesting. I never knew about a "virtual identity" extension.

For incoming, several e-mail services dump into my single Thunderbird account. For outgoing email, Thunderbird lets me select any of several return addresses from a simple drop down list. To the recipient my email appears to originate from whichever email address I pick off Thunderbird's drop down menu, without showing my basic Thunderbird address.

This is a native capability in basic vanilla Thunderbird. I don't see why you need a "virtual identity" extension. That's new to me! You may not need it.
 
It's just whatever best fits the purpose. I use all and I don't have any preferences. Only thing is to avoid MS Entourage for Mac if you can because when data lost happens, you can pretty much kiss the database and say good bye.
 
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