Time for millions to find a new email provider

[SNYder]

In 30 days, Hotmail will officialy [edit]not[/edit] become a pay service.

Did you know? If you don't sign in to MSN Hotmail® for 30 days, your account becomes inactive and:
- You lose all e-mails and attachments in your Inbox and other folders
- All of your incoming e-mail gets rejected
- You lose all contacts in your Address Book

The price: $19.95 per year

So are the other (good) free email providers out there?

p.s. Anyone up for @winamp.com names?

[edit] I'm an idiot

[Xerxes]

Well, Microsoft does need more revenue streams urgently...

[Matt]

The pay thing is for an 'enhanced' service. The crappy free one is still available.

[will]

HA!
I hope that mail.yahoo.com are upgrading their servers at the mo!

[SNYder]

Originally posted by Matt
The pay thing is for an 'enhanced' service. The crappy free one is still available.

ah shit man. your right! it says "if you don't SIGN IN to your hotmail account".

I thought it said "sign up".

wow. that changes everything

[edit]edited original post to avoid further confusion

[s1138]

i didnt get a notice...

snyder..its if you dont use your account for 30 days.


(edit) ahh..i see you have figured that out...

[SNYder]

As I now see, the thing that got me was Microshit's clever use of huge bold red letters at the begining of the email that read...

Don't lose your hotmail account

... and then included information on how to pay for hotmail.

Somehow I think my reaction is exactly what they were going for

Clever bastards

[liquidmotion]

i will give everyone free accounts @morphedmedia.com if they wish. just PM me their login/tempPassword and i'll set them up immediately.

cya

[Xerxes]

/Xerxes petulently considers whether to make this thread a "sticky" as a monument to SNYder's ignorance

[Curi0us_George]

I so want to post the timeline, but I won't do it.

Instead:

[rm']

I am so thoroughly convinced that my email service provider is the best in the world that I am willing to challenge anyone who doubts me to a duel.

Die Hotmail.

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
I am so thoroughly convinced that my email service provider is the best in the world that I am willing to challenge anyone who doubts me to a duel.

Then defend thyself!

[Aeroe]

hmm thought it would be aboot @home and it's email thing0r. well i did get mail (3d kind) that said my email address will now be "username@comcast.net" and a service upgrade notice in a seperate envelope. i think it sounds cooler anyways.

i see y'all care
anywho i ditched hotmail awhile back when my filters and blocked sender lists were maxed and spam kept oozing through.

[edit]me speak good english [/edit]

[rm']

En guard!

• SMTP access for email readers such as Outlook or Eudora
• truly ZERO spam (it's a little known provider, so hasn't landed on the mailing lists yet, and also uses a proxy to screen out mass mailings)
• The stability and flexibility of Novell software
• password box access for simplicity and speed. The option to use regular login screen as well, if that's what you are more comfortable with
• complete web access to calendar, address book, composing/inbox so you can access your email anywhere in the world
• templating to change the look of the site
• 100% Free

[drake]

yourname@winamp3.drakesland.com are FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so are yourname@drakesland.com

no limit on number of acceptance entries.

Only thing is no one likes my name on their address

They think that they are my bitch or something (which they are )

[Ice]

for $20 a month, you could prolly just host a pop3/smtp server somewhere. run your own even.

then another $8.95 for a domain/yr. there ya go.

[deathazre]

possible to run pop3/smtp and http on one box? or would I hafta get two?

[fwgx]

I'm quite happy with my hotmail acount, have been using it for years, not as fast as a POP account but works well enough for me have had no reliability problems. The attachment limit has been a pain in the past but nothing major.

Not too much spam [I use another account for signing up to pron mailing lists ]

[drake]

Price of domain: $12.50
Price of host: $9.75 a month

Getting drakesland.com and being able to brag about it: PRICELESS!!

Seriously if you register a domain and then get the right kind of account you can pay under 10 bucks a month for your own SMTP and POP server like me

[fwgx]

Am I right in thinking you can buy a domain name and the host it wherever you like, on any webhosts server? so I could buy Firewireguy.com and then go choose a server, or are they locked together?

[deathazre]

if you have a ISP that gives ya a fixed IP you can host on your network, just give them your server's IP when you sign up.

[drake]

You buy the domain and then you have to hook that domain up to a host that will allow you to with DNS. for example yourname.com might point to dns1.somehost.com

You can't point it to any server you want either since they have to add you to "their" DNS records so if you choose to point to dns1.hostcompany.com and they don't setup your domain in their database it will give you a error of somesort.

[SNYder]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
En guard!

• SMTP access for email readers such as Outlook or Eudora
• truly ZERO spam (it's a little known provider, so hasn't landed on the mailing lists yet, and also uses a proxy to screen out mass mailings)
• The stability and flexibility of Novell software
• password box access for simplicity and speed. The option to use regular login screen as well, if that's what you are more comfortable with
• complete web access to calendar, address book, composing/inbox so you can access your email anywhere in the world
• templating to change the look of the site
• 100% Free

so what is it? i wish to rid myself of the hassle's of hotmail.

Originally posted by Xerxes
/Xerxes petulently considers whether to make this thread a "sticky" as a monument to SNYder's ignorance

[rm']

www.myrealbox.com

[griffinn]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
SMTP access for email readers such as Outlook or Eudora

And POP3, and IMAP!

The stability and flexibility of Novell software

And the satisfaction of running something from Microsoft's archrival!

password box access for simplicity and speed. The option to use regular login screen as well, if that's what you are more comfortable with

SSL encryption is available for both!

[rm']

Best part of all? No attached ads (unless you consider their name in your address an ad).

[Mokey]

The service really sucks (it's free), but you can get an email address at yourmom.com, which I find to be tastefully hilarious.

[SNYder]

OMG!!! YES!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!

@MYREALBOX.COM =

p.s. I never have had a provider which used IMAP, and WOAH does it kick the flying fuck outa POP3.

In Outlook express, all your POP3 email accounts get poured into one single Inbopx, which has always been the ONLY reason I stuck with Hotmail, because in Outlook Express, it gets it's own folder and everything apart from the other cluttered together account. But I just set up Oulook Express for my new myrealbox account and after I pressed Enter, a new section was created just for this account! YAY!

/me does jumping jacks in fast-motion.

GOODBYE HOTMAIL!

/me hugs RM

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
www.myrealbox.com

Sounds nice, but I just use pop3.

No ads. No html. Nothing unnecessary. Plus, mine is at my website instead of someone else's (i.e. Gelaed instead of myrealbox).

[cmisker]

I use 3 different pop3 email addresses (one for home stuff, my Yahoo! (as pop) and my college email). Then, after Outlook retrieves the pop3 email, it just goes through a filter and puts all the email on my home email to the home-folder, Yahoo! mail to Yahoo! folder and college mail to the college folder. Never had any problems with it.

I use to download Hotspam...mail with Outlook Express too, but I just got sick of the spam, so stopped.

This post is useless. Oh well.

[jns]

Who needs a free webmail account?
I have no trouble getting spam without having such a thing..

[I have a huge]

I take pleasure in pressing my delete key therefore I'll keep my Hotspam, errrr Hotmail

[cmisker]

Originally posted by ElChevelle II
I take pleasure in pressing my delete key therefore I'll keep my Hotspam, errrr Hotmail

I only check my hotmail whenever I think I'm not going to make college and need a college degree (I seem to get 5 of these emails every day about college degrees!)

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by cmisker
I only check my hotmail whenever I think I'm not going to make college and need a college degree (I seem to get 5 of these emails every day about college degrees!)

I think it's funny. Those things always mention that they are non-accredited first. Why not just omit that part?

"Get your non-accredited university diploma! Open up a new career!"

[No Name]

I don't know how some of ya get so much spam!? My friend was over last thursday and he checked his email. He then came back on Monday to check his email and had 100 pieces of SPAM!!

Utterly spAMAZING !!!

[Matt]

My record is about 300 spam messages in 2 weeks or so. This was my other hotmail account that no one knew the address to. I'll leave that to die.

My other which i use for MSN messagener recieves a lot less spam. That's the only reason I use Hotmail anyway.

[binary hero]

i have talk21 email ( www.talk21.com ), and that is just like myrealbox

[ertmann|CPH]

i use operamail cz its the only webmail supported (stable!) by opera's email client

and then i offcourse have my neat stefan@ertmann.net pretty nice (and easy to remember) when my name is Stefan Ertmann huh?

[weedsatan]

So what are good POP3 (free) email providers..

excepts myrealbox.

Cuz I'm using zworg.com at the moment but the outgoing mail is like ridiculously slow.. sometimes it takes up to 4 hours before a mail is sent. And that's too damn long.

[cmisker]

Originally posted by Matt
My other which i use for MSN messagener recieves a lot less spam. That's the only reason I use Hotmail anyway.

You can register with MSN Messagener now with a non-hotmail email adress. My MSN Messagener email = chris@misker.nl. Pretty cool.