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Web2Pop - and other free POP mail alternatives

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I think the important question should be what free pop mail service do we think will still be free 1,2,3... years from now. Sure we can find a couple of free pop mail services now but when they start charging in the near future do we switch again.
 
I too am being screwed by my previously free webmail (onebox.com). They now want $25/yr and there's no pop3! So here's an idea...what if one of us were to start our own webmail site with all the features we would need. Charge just enough to cover costs, can't imagine that would be much more than a couple dollars a year per account. I would guess that by the end of the year there won't be any (good) free webmail sites around. If anyone knows exactly what it would take to do this...please post it. If it's easy enough, I'll start the site.
 
Web2Pop works great! 😀

I tried it with a hotmail account using Eudora 3.1 and with a little fiddling with the settings I got it to work. It's pretty fast too. 😎

I will use it with Yahoo when they stop their free Pop service. 😎

Final Note: Charging big bucks for e-mail just because one's company is not doing so well in the current economic conditions and giving false justifications that maintaining e-mail servers is costly and the sole reason for elimination of the free service despite receiving revenue from spammers (that spam Pop users) is not only unethical and a deceitful, it's predatory business practice that's is akin to the "bait and switch." :|

What's is worse is that a few vocal moron consumers are actually buying into the false justifications that e-mail require costly maintenance with zero proof and without a care in the world. These morons then begin spouting nonsense in support for the companies that have just rammed their behinds. I guess it's true that technology can't replace good old fashion education nor can it help develop the minds of dimwitted media brainwashed drones. 🙁
 
beeebeeebeee - Care to enlighten us with your wisdom then? When Yahoo offered their service in 1999, businesses felt web advertising was viable. ClickRewards is bankrupt, reporting.net is losing clients every day. There is no money in web advertising. And I'm sure you selected every checkbox during the POP3 config so you could contribute for the free service. How is it bait and switch if you're not paying for anything? I don't know the costs involved to maintain a data center. Do you? I can't say whether Yahoo is ripping customers off. But I will say companies are allowed to make money.
 
I personally use E-Prompter. It automatically checks up to 16 different pop or web accounts. It supports:

AltaVista
AOL
Email.com
Go
Hotmail
Juno
Lycos
Mail.com
Mindspring
MSN
Netscape
Onebox
Rediffmail
Switchboard
USA.com
USA.net
Yahoo

And many others - see here


It also includes a mini e-mail client that lets you reply, forward, and send messages. It includes an address book, but is not meant to be a fully-featured e-mail client. It also includes scheduling and autodialer features.
 
My wisdom is not needed, your stupidity speaks for itself.

Recap:
News Flash: Yahoo is soon discontinuing pop and mail forwarding but not its free web based mail.

Manko (bless his kind soul) posts: web2pop is a good shareware solution for those losing their yahoo pop accounts.

Calamity ensues at the bungho hut: Moron broadcasts that he is "confused," is proud of paying money for e-mail when it can be gotten free, lashes out at people using free e-mail service in a hot deals forum, and repeats old exagerated news that the world of all internet companies is coming to an end but we should still subsidize these soon to be bankrupt multimillion-multinational-multibusiness company with a life saving $20 a year.

Conclusion: Moron steps on a mini marshmellow and jolts to death his remaining XXY chromosome braincell but not before feeling that his contribution (calling on everyone to pay full price for free stuff) to a hot deals forum was appropriate. In a fit of frustration, he pitifully begs for wisdom (from a being with almost God-like mental prowess compared to his) but doesn't realize that his situation is hopeless.
 
i think whoever PMed me was absolutely right...

we should just ignore the sun's words, maybe sun should just shine and shut the **** up....

 
Your tactic is common -- You have absolutely nothing to back up your general statements with. So, you resort to name calling and exaggerations. Its obvious you have no clue as to what's really going on.
 
Best Serivce Not to be offend. Check the features, sign up for a free account right now. I bet you'll love it. Enjoy Fastmail.
I forgot, you can check hotmail, pop3, msn accounts with this service too. Neat.
 
Omg guys. Just download a pop3 server app. Your comp is the server. Your own server of pop3. Just like an ftp prog. Easy to use too.
 
people.....how long will it be till web2pop or whatever free service you will switch to will start charging?

$20 for Yahoo is worth it. I don't feel like the hassle of changing now and then changing again when the new free service starts charging to go hunting around again for another free service. unless, you like to do that!

another alternative is to use the cyber wings web hosting with go daddy and spend just ~$15 a year for your own domain.

cyberwings $4
godaddy $9
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$13 more or less


just my .02 cents
 
Bump for ePrompter. Downloaded it this afternoon, and love it. Price is right, easy to configure, and don't have to change e-mail addresses - until Yahoo starts charging for ALL e-mail accounts 🙁
 
You guys think you have it bad. At&t just switched my cable account from mediaone.net to attbi.com, and for $45.00 a month, TOOK AWAY our POP, and shifted us to crappy web based e-mail accounts! So now, I see spam, have to go through a number of "sign in" steps to get to ONE e-mail account, and have the privilige of seeing advertisements.
 
Actually I have AT&T and at first you couldn't pop in after the conversion but now you can, even if you're not connected to their server. Just go to help.attbroadband.com for the steps to set up your Outlook or whatever.
 
im just gonna switch to hotmail...its not fully functional in outlook XP(rules dont work), but its worth the move. I am already getting junk mail tho🙁
 
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