UPDATE:Losing HOTMAIL (7/28), Amexmail, Yahoo..... Here are Cheap emails wPOP/SMTP ...........

[VisionsUCI]

OMG this is from myrealbox.com (made me decide not to join)

"I will not use this mailbox in any way associated with spam including sending spam through MyRealBox.com, using this address as a return address for spam or as a drop box. If I violate this agreement I subject myself to legal action and will be held financially responsible for every piece of spam that goes into or out of MyRealBox.com at the amount of $10 for every piece of spam."

 

[VisionsUCI]

Does either Hotmail or MSN offer free email addresses? I seem to recall getting a prompt asking if I wanted one when I loaded WinXP. I think Microsoft should be in business for a while, if you we wanted a stable address... am I missing something?

 

[craigg]

Hotmail is free but no pop or smtp access so Bill is forcing you to use his web based product and to put up with all those obnoxious ads. I have an MSN dial up account that I received as a promotion from Best Buy for buying a computer. Even with this paid service they force one to use Hotmail as I have never been able to use smtp with this account. Maybe it is just me as I only use this account as an occasional backup but I can't imagine anyone in their right mind that would pay 21.95 for this service.

Here is the hot tip assuming the cyberwings hosting deal is still available.
Register your own domain at Godaddy for $8.95 then sign up for the $3.90 annual hosting deal. For $12.90 you have all the email addresses you want (anything@yourdomain.com), full pop, smtp, and web access, forwarders, etc...I don't care how poor one is, it has to be worth $12.90 not to put up with all the ads, spam, and games that these free mail servers play!

 

[darkjester]

<< OMG this is from myrealbox.com (made me decide not to join)

"I will not use this mailbox in any way associated with spam including sending spam through MyRealBox.com, using this address as a return address for spam or as a drop box. If I violate this agreement I subject myself to legal action and will be held financially responsible for every piece of spam that goes into or out of MyRealBox.com at the amount of $10 for every piece of spam." >>


I don't recall giving myrealbox.com any of my personal information when making my two accounts there, so I doubt they can actually follow through with this.

Also, their service has been great so I've found no reason to "abandon" my myrealbox.com accounts by making them spam drop boxes. Hotmail, on the other hand, is where I direct all my spam to. I check it once a month to purge my inbox and keep my account active with them.

Try myrealbox.com. They are one of the best!

PS: IMAP RULES!!!

 

[TSDible]

I checked out the web2pop program and it seems promissing. It allows you to check your yahoo, hotmail, etc. using any POP email client. It may be worth looking in to.

 

[weepul]

for those that use softhome or any other pop3 email, do any of them allow you to have a different email? i'm planning to register my domain and have it forward to my current email address, but many email services i know doesnt allow you to change the email address.

example:
someone sends me email: me@weepul.com
i'm currently have a berkeley account: weepul@berkeley.com (won't allow me to send when i change that to me@weepul.com
therefore when others receive email from me, they get: weepul@berkeley.com (which defeats the purpose of having a email domain

any suggestion will be appreciated. thanks ^_^x

 

[mdcrab]

Hot Deal!!! With only 4 more days left on my AmExMail accounts I received the following from AmExMail. It was really great of them to extend the service and give us so much notice. I guess they received a lot of complaints. I have stopped using my Amex Cards and may cut them into pieces.

mdcrab

April 26, 2002

Dear AmExMail Subscriber,

We recently notified you that the free AmexMail e-mail service is being discontinued. Based on feedback from our customers, American Express has decided to extend the service one more month through May 31, 2002, at no additional charge. We hope that this gives you a little more time to find an alternative e-mail service and forward your individual messages there. If you have already signed up for the paid e-mail service through USA.NET's Net@ddress Messaging Center, your paid subscription will start June 1, 2002.

Just a reminder that you are able to maintain your e-mail address and all of your currently saved AmExMail messages and contacts by signing up for Net@ddress Messaging Center at a special introductory rate of $29.99 for the first 12 months. American Express will not collect any part of this fee, which we negotiated on behalf of our customers. After your first 12 months of service, USA.NET's standard rate for the service, which is currently $49.99, will take effect at that time. Net@ddress Messaging Center includes all of AmExMail's current features, plus additional benefits such as virus scanning for incoming and outgoing messages, POP3 access for downloading messages while traveling, and message forwarding features. To take advantage of this offer, please click here.

In order to preserve your saved messages and contacts in your current AmExMail account, we encourage you to sign up for Net@ddress Messaging Center by May 31, 2002. Or, enroll in an alternative e-mail service and forward each of the messages you want to save there. For questions about Net@ddress Messaging Center, call USA.NET customer service directly at (800) 820-6400 and identify yourself as a current AmExMail subscriber.

We apologize for the inconvenience of this change. If you have any questions regarding your online services with American Express, please call (800) AXP-1234 or e-mail us using the form at https://home4.americanexpress.com/cust_serv/forms/about.asp. For questions regarding your other American Express accounts, please do not hesitate to contact the customer service number on your statement or the back of your Card--or visit www.americanexpress.com/customerservice.

Thank you for your valued patronage.

Sincerely,

Andrea Levine
Vice President, Interactive Channels

 

[NICKel]

Just thought everyone should remember their HOTMAIL account is going away soon....

 

[whitelight]

i just bought my own domain from godaddy.com ($9) and hosting from cyberwings. check the cyberwings thread for cheap cheap cheap hosting.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: gsethi
ok, i am new at this thing.

how do i use my own domain name and web hosting ?

i mean, suppose i want to use this as my e mail address:

abc@gssethi.com

what do i need to do ?
Heres what i have figured so far.

I need to register the domain name: gssethi.com
Then i need to sign up with a webhosting place.

what about DNS ? How will i be able to access my e mail ? I was going to signup with cyberwings.com for domain name and webhosting but while registering for domain name, it asked for DNS and i was confused. what should i do ?

Thanks
gsethi

Anyone? Links/tutorials? TIA

 

[psxjunky]

Originally posted by: NICKel
Just thought everyone should remember their HOTMAIL account is going away soon....

Huh ???

Care to explain a little bit more ?

 

[Boogak]

what about DNS ? How will i be able to access my e mail ? I was going to signup with cyberwings.com for domain name and webhosting but while registering for domain name, it asked for DNS and i was confused. what should i do ?

Your web host will provide you with the IP addresses of their DNS servers, you then have to go to your account setup page with your domain registrar and they should have a spot where you can specify and change your domains DNS servers. Most webhosts will also provide you with x number of free email addresses when you host your domain with them, and they'll provide you with your mail server address and login info.

Here's a super-condensed version of "So You Wanna Own Your Own Domain", by Boogak

1. Choose an available domain name and register it with a registrar. I use godaddy.com since they have the best pricing I've seen, you can register a domain for 10 years for less than $70. During the registration process, they might ask if you already have DNS servers you want to use. If you already have a web hosting account and have existing DNS settings, you can enter it now. If not, you can do it in the last step.

2. Find a web hosting provider. There's tons of options available, including some pretty nice hosting deals found on this very forum. I host both my domains thru datapacket.net, where I signed up for lifetime $10 annual fees for 500mb web space and ASP and DB support. You may or may not have the same needs as I did, so I would recommend you look around. Once you've found a web host you're satisfied with, go thru their account activation setup (usually online nowadays). Here you'll specify what your newly registered domain is and this is also when they give you their DNS server addresses. Once activated, they'll send you an email with all the info on how to administer your new website, ie. how to upload files thru FTP, how to log into your mail server, etc.

3. Go back to where you registered your domain and now you can go into your account settings page and enter in the DNS server addresses given to you towards the end of step 2. It takes a few days for DNS changes to propagate throughout the Internet, so it might take a while before you can type in www.mydomain.com and actually see your website come up.

All in all, it's nowhere near as hard as it sounds and it's probably alot cheaper than you think to have your own domain and website. Hope this helps and good luck!

 

[ScrapSilicon]

thanks Boogak

 

[breweyez]

i guess everyone has forgotten about netzero. It has POP service and its free. I dont use the 10 hours unless my cable service goes down.

 

[rickn]

I use iwon. its free. it works atleast. pop accounts, 6mb storage

iwon

 

[firestorm225]

I have a GoDaddy account and a domain name Modzone.net. How does the whole person@modzone.net thing work? How can I get it to send that to other addresses?

 

[Maverick]

I like myrealbox.com
I've used it for about a year and I've had no problems with it. The only issue for some would be the 10 MB storage limit. But its enough for me and should be enough for the casual user. If you're more than casual with e-mail, then you owe it to yourself to get a good pay e-mail provider. My .02

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: psxjunky

Originally posted by: NICKel
Just thought everyone should remember their HOTMAIL account is going away soon....

Huh ???

Care to explain a little bit more ?

Yeah, what's this about hotmail? First I heard of it

 

[chibchakan]

Yeah, what's this about hotmail? First I heard of it

ATTENTION POP USERS: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

Dear MSN® Hotmail® User:

We are sorry to inform you that as of July 16, 2002, we will no longer be able to offer POP Mail Retrieval to our Hotmail users with a standard free account. This means that you will not be able to aggregate e-mail from various accounts into a single Hotmail account.

If you would like to continue to use this feature, you can sign up for MSN Extra Storage. Extra Storage costs only $19.95* a year (that's an average of less than $2 a month), and provides a number of additional useful features, including:


10MB of MSN Hotmail storage ? five times what you?re getting today
The ability to send and receive larger attachments ? up to 1.5MB per message
30MB of MSN Communities storage ? the perfect place to store photos
Exemption from account expiration policy ? you?ll never have to worry about losing your account

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: chibchacan

Yeah, what's this about hotmail? First I heard of it

ATTENTION POP USERS: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

We are sorry to inform you that as of July 16, 2002, we will no longer be able to offer POP Mail Retrieval to our Hotmail users with a standard free account. This means that you will not be able to aggregate e-mail from various accounts into a single Hotmail account.

POP mail? You mean the thing with outlook? Because I didn't think they offered standard pop3 access. Hmm, that sucks its not going to be accessible for free anymore

 

[udonoogen]

Originally posted by: chibchacan

Yeah, what's this about hotmail? First I heard of it

in addition if you dont log in the period of one month they deactivate you. they've sent three or four letters implicitly threatening people to subscribe to their subscription service in order to "save" their mail from being deactivated. theyre using pretty devious measures. its sad but i guess if your in the business to make money then it's an avenue to take

 

[chibchakan]

POP mail? You mean the thing with outlook? Because I didn't think they offered standard pop3 access. Hmm, that sucks its not going to be accessible for free anymore

I don't think it's the outlook hotmail access they're going to stop offering for free. Login to your Hotmail account, after logging in click on the link on the right side that says POP Mail under Hotmail Services. That's what I think they're actually gonna get rid off.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: chibchacan

POP mail? You mean the thing with outlook? Because I didn't think they offered standard pop3 access. Hmm, that sucks its not going to be accessible for free anymore

I don't think it's the outlook hotmail access they're going to stop offering for free. Login to your Hotmail account, after logging in click on the link on the right side that says POP Mail under Hotmail Services. That's what I think they're actually gonna get rid off.

Oh, that thing where you can check other pop3 email accounts and put the mail into hotmail? Ugh, that would be bad, I already have too much crap on there, I'd much prefer using a regular email program to retrieve it and store it on my PC.

 

[Jerry]

TSDible,
It would seem the observable downside to zoneedit.com is that in the 5th year, or the 6th, one would have to start paying for the service. Mydomain.com is a rather slick site and does offer free (with no seeming expiration) email forwarding, but I am fairly sure that Mydomain.com sells the email addresses that one provides as one's basic registration and forwarding address, whereas it is possible that zoneedit.com does not.

Comments ?

 

[RFJ]

How does the evaolution into paying for the service come about ?