mail.com account worth it?

[PatboyX]

a bunch of my fellow recent graduates have been looking for free email accounts.
they were all upset with hotmail and yahoo. anyone have any reasons NOT to set up a mail.com account?

thanks for any info you got.

 

[QueHuong]

A lot of pop-ups, and no POP3 (at least for the free version). But mailbox size is pretty large. And lots of domain names.

 

[PatboyX]

yeah, the size and name choices is why my friends were interested.
thanks.

 

[GroundedSailor]

Be prepared for very slow load up and outages.

Otherwise OK.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: GroundedSailor
Be prepared for very slow load up and outages.

Otherwise OK.

Seems to be slow in the afternoon, but reasonably fast in the evening. Pop-ups are a pain, but any decent anti pop-up software should fix that.

 

[Colt45]

if you can read russian (or if you're good at guessing) mail.ru is good.
has POP support too, and kinda large inbox (12mb IIRC)

 

[evergreen96]

Does anyone know a program that is FREE that work like yahoopop for yahoo but is for Mail.com.

PS
I already know of WEb2pop and it will be installed on multiple computers for friends/family. It will be too expensive

Thanks

 

[Paulson]

I have webmail & pop mail if you really want an email addy... only problem is I don't know if you'd want an @paulsonator.com addy...

 

[MrBond]

http://www.myrealbox.com

No ads, no popups, pop3 access, web access, won't sell your name. I've had one outage in over two years I've had my account there.

 

[RavnShield]

Whatever you do, do NOT sign up with mail.com. It is pure sh!t. Checking email in the afternoons? forget it. I am trying to switch but I am afraid I'll end up missing some important email. They charge for email forwading, argh!

 

[Lyfer]

www.softhome.net


works good, no ads/pop ups, pop3/webaccess, but a little slow.

 

[conjur]

mail.com can be very slow at times...I'm migrating away from it to my yahoo account.

 

[jadinolf]

I have used mail.com for years.

Not 100% reliable but I can live with it.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: PatboyX
a bunch of my fellow recent graduates have been looking for free email accounts.
they were all upset with hotmail and yahoo. anyone have any reasons NOT to set up a mail.com account?

thanks for any info you got.

Although this solution is not free it does offer you a whole lot more and is very cheap.

You get
Your own www.domain.com
www.yourdomain.com website hosting
150MB webspace (to be divided how you want)
3GB per month bandwidth
1 MySQL database (can be used for forums or pichosting for instance - forums would be a nice way to keep in touch and share pics)
10 e-mail addresses (if divided equally each email box will be 15MB)
domain registration

All for only $1.57 per month (paid anually $18.87)

NameCheap.com domain registration
e-rice.net web hosting, email, forums, pichosting, etc.