Webmail Servers/Providers

I have used... hotmail, yahoo, oemmail, everyone, mail, gmail... and I currently use the latter.

Gmail is fast, has cleaner interface, less junk, and some unique features like threading messages just like a forum. However, there's know way to know if it will stay this way...

With some jabber clients (plus agents) you can accept and send email messages over the IM network. This would be a strong contender! ;)

http://www.jabber.org
http://www.gmail.com (dunno when it goes live)
 
For one that's recognisable and popular: Go with Yahoo. They offer 4 megs compared to hotmail's 2, and their spam filters are impeccable.

Right now, since our website's with Yahoo small business hosting, I've got a 25 mb account with the company URL.
 
You get 1000Mb with Gmail, and some other have announced a similar response. One of the Tripod mail providers also offer a huge amount of space for free.

I have 43 messages in the inbox, and it still says 0% used, though that may be buggy 'cause it says 0Mb... :undecide:
 
I've heard of one that gives 2gb but they limit registrations per week and I haven't got an account yet...
 
There was a glitch for a short time where someone accidentally put 10,000Mb and CNET/ZDNET reported this as a new Gmail policy but it was just a booboo... or a marketting trick... depends how you want to read into it :p

Where is this 2Gb one? Not that anyone needs that kind of space, but would be interesting to know :)

These huge storage values are worked out on the premise that nobody will actually use it, plus inactive accounts will be reset.
 
Spymac also gives 1GB. They were slow and down a lot a few weeks ago, but is Gmail better?

They only give you 1MB of space, but cjb.net gives a free domain for email-addresses.
 
funxus said:
Spymac also gives 1GB. They were slow and down a lot a few weeks ago, but is Gmail better?

They only give you 1MB of space, but cjb.net gives a free domain for email-addresses.
With gmail, if you hold a conversation with someone, it puts all the emails between you and them in a thread much like this; with one post after the other.

I think it does the same with labels but I haven't messed with that yet.

Other than the flat-thread view, gmail has nothing to make it stand out. The service isn't as polished as yahoo (for example). Gmail is very fast, but was down shortly a week or two ago.
 
Yahoo (CANADIAN VERSION!!!), and Hotmail, with Yahoo being for Spam, and Hotmail my actual account.
 
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