6 Worthy Free Webmail Services
In this day and age, personal email should come in three flavors. Free webmail, your own domain’s email, or hosted exchange. If you do not fall into one of those groups, and pay for email access for no reason, let me point you in the right direction. Here are the hilights if probably the 6 most useful free webmail companies. Now if you are a devoted Outlook fan, most of these services allow IMAP or POP3. GMail even offered free push style faux exchange email. This is a break through since its the first main stream free competitor to the venerable hosted exchange solution.
Gawab is an Egypt based company with an AJAX based inbox. Services include 10GB storage, 50MB attachments, IMAP, POP3, some International SMS, and delivery confirmation. Fun fact: Gawab is the phonetic spelling of the Arabic word for “letter.”
Gmail is the email service from our domestic internet giant Google. This service is my personal favorite for many reasons. Service includes 7.5GB storage, 25MB attachments, IMAP, POP, POP+TLS, Microsoft Exchange(hooray!), account aggregation, plugins, and Google Talk. This is my favorite because of the SPAM control and the simple down to business design (oh and exchange support!).
GMX:
GMX is a european import that is a great success overseas. Services include 5GB storage, 50MB attachments, IMAP, POP3, mobile access, and account aggregation (up to 10 accounts). The Mail Collector is a nice aggregation tool.
Inbox.com is a straight forward webmail provider. Services include 5GB storage, POP3, SMTP, photo galleries, and 90 day inactivity protection.
Mail.com is a unique webmail provider in the sense that they offer multiple domains in which to attach your email address. Choose from including things like mail.com, email.com, techie.com, lawyer.com, and others. Services include 3GB storage, and 60 day inactivity protection.
Yahoo! was a pioneer in the free webmail world. GMail has taken a little shine off their armor. Services include unlimited GB storage, 25MB attachments, YIM chat, POP3, and plugins. You have to pay to remove ads and use forwarding. Personally I know a good amount former Yahoo! mail folks that made the move to GMail…. (may have influenced that).
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