Hotmail has jumped the shark. Terribly. Since the switch-over to the new design not only have I been subjected to a million offensive ads for dating services, the bloody thing doesn’t work. Half the time when I click on one of the buttons to, say, navigate between e-mails, I click and click away without any effect.
So, I’m going to get rid of my hotmail account. Does anyone have any suggestions for what service I could use instead? Ideally, a POP3 or IMAP service would be ideal, but I’m broke so I understand that those are probably out of the question. Oh, and there’s another preference: I have a fondness for long e-mail address, so I’d like something that can support my habit..
for free, web based mail, yahoo’s the best. 4mb of disk space, easy to use interface and a really effective spam filtering engine.
I use ureach.com, and have had no trouble with it. It’s not great, but it’s serviceable and free. It does subject you to a (relatively small, unobtrusive) banner ad on every page, though IIRC yahoo is worse when it comes to ads. Pay for POP3/IMAP, sadly.
Wow, really? You get *more* spam on your hotmail account now than you did before? For me, when they switched over to the new design, it coincided with a drop in spam from about 100 messages a day to only two or three.
Anyway, if you’re definitely switching, I’ve heard good things about yahoo’s free email service.
No, no… I don’t receive any spam at all (I never have received any spam; it’s just never happened). The ads I’m referring to are the obnoxious banner ads that take up a third of the page.
Another vote for yahoo. No spam a’tall, three years running now — which couldn’t be said about the CompuServe account that I was *paying* for…
Good luck!
I agree with my fellow commenters: Yahoo, for free email, is superlative.
Problem is, you have to pay for POP3 access- still their rate is decent, $20/year. No help if you’re broke, of course. :(
Two additional suggestions: check out http://www.runbox.com and http://www.emailaddresses.com. The latter is a directory of email services.
Netscape also has a good free web based email system. They’ve been pretty good to me.
I use “myway.com” and am very happy with it and it has very little adsvertising and 6 Mb of space free.
actually myway has no banners or popups.
You can’t get set up with an amptoons POP3?
How cheap is that… demand to be loved!
PDP: Oh, banner ads, right… I kind of forgot they existed after I started using Mozilla with the AdBlock extension… :)
PDP: Oh, banner ads, right… I kind of forgot they existed after I started using Mozilla with the AdBlock extension… :)
I’d forgotten about pop-ups since I started using Safari, but banner ads are still around. So I’ll suffer.
Of course, I could just use Mozilla except that I can’t stand it.
You can’t get set up with an amptoons POP3?
How cheap is that… demand to be loved!
Yeah, Amp no giv me turkee.
I have a friend who swears by fastmail.fm – I would consider switching to that if I didn’t already have too many email addys.
And I concur that yahoo is quite good.
I agree with you! I miss my old MSN layout, I actually have to open up my MSN browser to check that account. Stupid idiots, the layout before worked, why change it?
I have a vanity domain, 50 free pop boxes. I would be willing to offer one. shoot me an e-mail if interested.
You can simply access Hotmail through Outlook. And yes, it works.
I’m a big fan of hushmail. It’s free, encrypted and ad-free. I’ve literally never received a single spam message since subscribing and it’s a great way to communicate privately from any machine. http://www.hushmail.com
I’ve also heard good things about fastmail.fm. Several of my friends swear by it.
Check out http://www.softhome.net. Free POP3 service, minor limitations about polling frequency, webmail as a backup if your client dies, and did I mention it’s free? Owned by twocows, oddly enough.
Only downside is that some blacklists have softhome listed, and they tend to block HTML-mail a lot (big deal).
yes, be sure you have an ad-blocker if you’re going to use yahoo’s email. I found the health and fitness and dating banner ads to be really offensive, so I’m running Privoxy in addition.
Yahoo’s not bad but I wish they’d make their spam blockers a little more user-friendly.
justice.com has a nice set up – no frills, but they’ve always been good to me.
I can strongly recommend Fastmail.fm. I too was looking for a good, free mail service, and FastMail has some nice features:
No popups
Works well with mobile browsers.
Free IMAP
10 MB
Several available domains (.com/.org/.net)
Doesn’t need javascript
Can upgrade for $ for more features too.
Yahoo webmail is bloated to me, and won’t work well (or at all) in a minimal browser. Fastmail is sleek and non obtrusive. Plus their domains don’t scream out “free web mail user!”
Good luck.
fastmail.fm rocks.
get POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo mail for free with this handy little open-source utility, YahooPops, from
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
Works great.
Another vote for FastMail here. Excellent service.
I’ve had bad experiences with hotmail, yahoo, hushmail, and a local isp’s email. At the moment i stick with the devil i know, http://www.themail.com,
but i certainly don’t recommend it.
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