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Which Webmail Service Do You Use? 133

Posted by Cliff from the easy-email dept.
worm eater asks: "I've been hosting my email with my web site host for some time, although a while back I used commercial services such as Yahoo! and Hotmail. I liked Yahoo!, but was disappointed to hear that they stopped offering free POP3 access. So I'm looking for a good, free webmail host for a friend of mine that supports POP3 -- because sometimes you don't want to have to deal with a web interface, no matter how well designed. And it's nice to be able to store messages indefinitely. What do you recommend?" This was last asked two years ago, but webmail is more prevalent now than it was then, so maybe better options are available. Readers interested in security with their webmail might find this discussion interesting, as well.
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  • fetchyahoo (Score:2, Informative)

    by thor ( 3901 )
    fetchyahoo [google.com]
    • http://www.imap.cc/ [www.imap.cc] a.k.a. http://www.fastmail.fm/ [fastmail.fm] is my favorite. They have POP3 and SMTP for a small fee. 10M of space is included.

      Why not use the MUCH better protocol IMAP, instead? Why do people keep using and expecting POP3?!?!?
      • IMAP is not all that much better for this task. POP3's biggest failing is that it defaults to being VERY insecure. SSL and other additions have largely cleared that up.

        IMAP's big advantages are (from the client's perspective):

        1) mail in folders
        2) better handling of lots of email

        Both of these have been solved by mail readers for a long time.

        IMAP is really better for the admins of the world and the security conscious. For most people POP3 is good enough.
      • I second that! Fastmail is by far the best email service I've ever used. They actually have a policy that (seems to me, at least), to be sustainable. They have free accounts with limited bandwidth and storage, and IMAP access. If you want more bandwidth (which is where the money actually starts to count for services like this), you have to pay more.

        Plus, their web interface is quite good, and it is nice to be able to access all of your emails and your email folders from anywhere.

  • Myrealbox.com (Score:4, Informative)

    by Celt ( 125318 ) * on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:33PM (#7145739) Journal
    I've been using it for 2 years now with no hassel, IMAP and POP3 support, 10MB webspace and no adverts.
    Great service even if its is used for a test bed for Novels services :-)

    • Re:Myrealbox.com (Score:1, Informative)

      by orkysoft ( 93727 )
      Yep, Myrealbox.com rocks!
    • I just looked at the site FAQ [myrealbox.com].

      It indicates it is down sometimes. Does it ever drop mail?
      • Nope I've never missed any e-mails that have been sent to me, I've also never lost any of my already saved e-mails.

        Another good point, there virus blocking is top class and I've only ever got one e-mail virus through in the past 2 years.

      • Re:Myrealbox.com (Score:4, Informative)

        by slaker ( 53818 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @03:47PM (#7146477)
        The myrealbox team informs prior to outage. It's been many, many times more reliable than my yahoo mailbox - the one I pay a bunch of money for - and even more steps above hotmail.

        In ~3 years of using myrealbox, I've gotten four messages indicating that there will be an outage, a window of how long service will be down (two or four hours). I've never known my mailbox to be unavailable, other than that.

        myrealbox allows access through the web and by POP3 and IMAP, for free.

        I get *way* less spam through their service than through others that I use (crosswinds, yahoo etc).

        In short, it's a very good service.

      • I've used myrealbox since they started offering the service. They offer a good mail interface, pop3, imap and decent spam filtering (not as good as spamassassin, but better than nothing). However, lately it's been a lot less than reliable. I have had mail that arrives several weeks late, and their service is frequently unavailable. Their spam filters now also block a fair bit of legitimate mail from arriving.

        My sibling posters here seem to have had a different experience, but I know enough other users th

      • It drops all mail from Yahoo Groups [myrealbox.com]. The server tends to be under water fairly often, and you can't get any of your e-mail during that time. Other times e-mail delivery is very slow, even though you can get to the POP3 server or the web server.
    • I looked at this a year ago or so. It looks great. . . but it is unfortunate that (for the dirty minded among us) that it sounds like a porn site.

      Wouldn't you like to touch my real box, baby? ;)

    • I've been using MyRealBox for 3+ years now... back when it first became public. It's wonderful and over the years has added more and more features. Since it is a "beta" for Novell's NIMs project(/client?), you get some very great features.

      As said above, POP3, IMAP, 10MB, no ad's. There's a calander which is very helpful and will also email you a message on a certain day/time for a reminder(if you wish). The address book, which most/all services implement, has a nice look, feel, and offers many fields

  • Interland... (Score:4, Funny)

    by avalys ( 221114 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:36PM (#7145774)
    One of my websites is hosted via Interland, which offers web-based access to email.

    Can't say I recommend them, though - they've been dropping so much mail because of the recent virus attacks that I've had to set up my own mail server and use theirs only as a secondary. Their customer service is awful, too - the representative I talked to resorted to outright lying in order to avoid taking responsibility for the missing email.

    Come to think of it, I'd avoid them like the plague.

  • My favorite (Score:3, Informative)

    by JHMartin ( 311023 ) <jaredmartin@gmx. n e t> on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:37PM (#7145787) Homepage
    I started using GMX about two years ago. They have free POP3 and spam filtering and an assortment of other tools. They seem to be quite stable as well. The only drawback is that the site is all in german. None the less I find the web interface quite useable after I spent a week or so getting used to it. (I use a POP3 client most of the time but if I'm on vacation for example its nice to be able to get e-mail from the web.)

    • I would also like to recommend GMX. It took me an hour or so to fill out their little forms, jumping back and forth between Babelfish, but it's certainly worth it: I've received no spam in the year and a half I've had my @gmx.net address.

      One distinct downside I'd like to mention, though, is that every so often they'll serve up NSFW banner ads. GMX is a portal, and it appears they have their own "adult" content section, which they advertise now and again.

      Those wacky Germans and their liberal attitudes to

      • Re:My favorite (Score:3, Informative)

        by TulioSerpio ( 125657 )
        I manage to disabled the soft porn banner. I traslate from german to english in google and from pseudo-english to spanish in my head, so you can do it.

        Cant remember how its called, but exists.
      • To not display "adult-content" banners is an option in the preferences that you can turn off. About 3 or 4 years ago when I first signed up it used to be multilingual and the non-german web interface was very simplistic and quick. When they switched to German-only they said that they could no longer maintain the multilingual service and I had to use the bloated German language interface that used to be only on gmx.de, but I still prefer it over most webmail services.

        • Thanks for the heads-up. The first time I ran across GMX they were still multi-lingual, but I dawdled for a few months and by the time I decided to get an account, they were German-only.

          Back to Babelfish I go...

      • 1. To disable erotic banners, login to web interface, go to "Mein Account"(top left)/"Meine personlichen Daten"/"Erotik-Werbung -> ..."(near bottom), in the option page, switch to "Nein", and click "ubernehmen"

        2. when configuring POP3 account in your mail client, be sure to specify your account number as user name, not your mail address' user name, as there are various gmx domains (de,net,li,...). The account number is displayed in the left bottom box of web interface : "KD-Nr : xxxxxxx"

        3. You can coll
  • I have been using NetIdentity's Web Mail for a few years now and have had excellent results. They specialize in "family name" and "vanity" addresses. They are stable, the interface is fast, and you can also access via POP3.

    My only complaint is that they don't handle spam that well, but overall, they are solid.

  • Simple: Pay for it (Score:4, Insightful)

    by camilita ( 694206 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:37PM (#7145794)
    Its not that expensive. You can get a decent hosting for 5 bucks a month just for POP3 mail. Or for 10 bucks with IMAP. I have just settled (after trying jumpline [jumpline.net], vservers and others over the years) with dreamhost.com [dreamhost.com], just because of webmail and specially IMAP, which many hosts tend to avoid.

    This is a personal opinion. Pick another host if you like, but pay for one. Much better than free.

    • For $6/month at pair.com (less if you pay a year in advance), they'll host a domain with one mailbox (POP3/IMAP). You can set up server-side mail filters, and they let you control Spam Assassin settings (including not using it if you don't like it).
    • I agree. I have an account with mailsnare.net.

      $19.95 a year for 50 megs of indefinite mail storage, 10 megs of file storage, and 5 "aliases" so you don't have to give out your real mail address and get unwanted spam.

      No adverts, no spam after four months, and SSL/POP3/IMAP/WAP access.

      There's also a $14 per year option with a few less features, but all of the above are standard.

    • I have not used any of the listed services, but I completely agree. The only satisfying email services I have ever used have been the ones I have paid for, especially if they are for domains I own on servers that I run or have hosted by other people. Free email services are simply too limited in their capabilities. They were great when they first came out. I remember being able to use some really great email services that had practically every single feature imaginable all for free, but over time, they alw

  • Uh... Roll your own? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:39PM (#7145803)
    With free software out there, it is cake to run a home IMAP or POP3 server and have your own webmail configured exactly how you want. Nothing to it.

  • Webmail programs (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Samus ( 1382 )
    I host my own email server on a dsl line. Currently I use phpgroupware for webmail access but its development has gone kind of stagnant lately. What other packages do people use? I'm upgrading the server OS and thought I might check out a few alternatives. I know I can do a freshmeat search but I want to know what is active and popular.

  • Use YahooPOPs! (Score:5, Informative)

    by mh_tang ( 307188 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:39PM (#7145807)
    http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]

    Works great for me ever since Yahoo went to pay only for POP3 service. Open source also. From their website:

    Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002. This resulted in many people (including myself) to look for alternative free POP3 services. But this exercise can be very difficult because of the fact that your Yahoo! Mail address could be with several people and informing all of them about your new email address could prove to be a nightmare.

    And then one day, I stumbled across a Perl script called FetchYahoo [twizzler.org], which almost did what I wanted! It downloaded emails from Yahoos website and presented them in a format such that email clients like Netscape and Pine could read them. But, the format in which it saved the emails is not supported by all email clients, including the one that I use. Also, making a layman install Perl and to get a Perl script to work could be a nightmare.

    So, YahooPOPs! [sourceforge.net] was born. YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to your Yahoo! Mail account. YahooPOPs! is available on the Windows and Unix platforms.

    YahooPOPs! emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, IncrediMail, Calypso, etc., to download and send emails from Yahoo! accounts.

    How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3/SMTP server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo!

    • This could be a profitable setup if you expanded it. Set up www.freemailsomethingorother.com and have it grab many popular web-based email sites' email and provide it as pop or imap email to it's subscribers. Put a little add at the bottom of the emails, or in a periodical digest, and you could probably make enough money to pay for it. a good weekend project, at least.
    • Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002.

      Probably because they couldn't figure out how to shovel ads down people's throats over POP. Yahoo! Mail is nice and all, but I wonder if they could still do well with just a few fewer big skyscraper ads choking my 33K modem to death.

    • Re:Use YahooPOPs! (Score:3, Informative)

      by rmohr02 ( 208447 )
      Also note HotPOP3 [sourceforge.net], which allows POP3 access to Hotmail. I haven't tried it, but it looks promising.

      • Hotwayd and/or Gotmail (Score:2, Informative)

        by cmehta1 ( 88375 )
        These two services seem further ahead than HotPOP3 for downloading Hotmail Emails.

        I personally use Hotwayd on my home linux box. Installation instructions were excellent and run w/o problems every since

        Hotwayd: http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/
        Gotmail: http://www.nongnu.org/gotmail/

    • Check your Hotmail with any POP3 mail client by installing Hotwayd [sf.net].

      It works a treat, allowing me to access my hotmail account via Evolution.
  • Does anyone offer a webmail services that will connect to your POP3 account?
  • A SourceForge project:

    YahooPOPs! is an application which emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail server. You can use a mail client of your choice!

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/

    I don't use it (or yahoo) anymore, so I can't vouch for features or stability, but this may solve your problem.

  • Roll your own.... (Score:4, Informative)

    by snubber1 ( 56537 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:41PM (#7145824)
    For those of you who like to do your own thing, but still want the webmail then look no further than Squrrel Mail [squirrelmail.org].

    Chock full of features and can be configured to your heart's content with the robust plugin system. I've been using it as my sole email client for over two years now without regret.

    Find a cheap domain hosting provider that gives imap access and php support and your set.

    • Re:Roll your own.... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by j-turkey ( 187775 )
      For those of you who like to do your own thing, but still want the webmail then look no further than Squrrel Mail.

      Why run Squirrel Mail over any of the other free/free webmail applications out there (sqWebMail, IMP, etc)?

      Some of these do work better than others, depending on what other services you're running and how you need them integrated.

      --Turkey

      • Re:Roll your own.... (Score:2, Informative)

        by -stax ( 34630 )
        Because there are a million plugins that make squirrelmail one of the most versatile webmail systems out there.

        • Re:Roll your own.... (Score:3, Interesting)

          by snubber1 ( 56537 )
          Exactly. Every time I check out the plugins page I spot some new one that is cool enough to merit installing. Virtually every 'itch' you could have while using squirrelmail in terms of features/functionallity has been 'scratched' by a plugin already.
      • SquirrelMail's main advantage is that it does not require a DB back end.

        It does depend on IMAP, which is arguably an email specific DB, but from an installation and maintenance standpoint that doesn't count.

        It also doesn't depend on perl. Since I don't like perl this is an advantage for me ;-)

        -Peter

        PS: I agree with GP that rolling your own is the way to go if you know what you want.

        -P
  • I use Hotmail myself, but I've used Hushmail [hushmail.com] in the past.

  • .Mac (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Goo.cc ( 687626 ) * on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:43PM (#7145843)
    I've been using a .Mac address for a while now and I really like it. In addition to the webmail client, my address book and bookmarks are all available to me online thanks to iSync.

    Works better than I expected, honestly.

    • Re:.Mac (Score:2, Informative)

      by Skasta ( 594110 )
      .Mac is awesome. The only downside being that you need a Mac to use it properly, but if you do, it's one of the best services available, 100megs hosting, iLife apps integration, great offers once and a while, a 15mb mailbox with webmail and imap access. What else could you ask for.
      • How about a mac.com email for say $30-40 a year? I personally would love to have my mac.com email back and and too broke to shell out $100 for an email address, I could handle 5 bucks a month, or some other price point, but the whole give us a hundred bucks is a lot harder for me.
  • This is not a total webmail service like Yahoo! or Hotmail, but it's an incredibly useful tool if you're on vacation away from your computer.

    Check any POP mail account from mail2web.com [mail2web.com]. Free! No registration required! Just enter your e-mail address and POP password. Access your e-mail from the web, and you can keep the messages on the mail server so you can download them later into your e-mail program. It does require trust to submit your POP password, but I've been using it for over a year and have seen

  • Survival (Score:3, Interesting)

    by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @02:51PM (#7145911) Homepage
    It's nice to be able to store messages indefinitely.

    If you want to store messages indefinitely, or want a permanent e-mail address, don't rely on free services. When choosing a provider, ask why they will be around in 5 years. Yahoo will be around because they are drawing traffic to their larger site, and selling upgrades. Microsoft will be around because they are trying to leverage control of every aspect of computing to their advantage, and hotmail helps tie people to their passport system. But i-name? deathsdoor.com? Free mail boxes and forwarding services have folded rapidly as small hosting companies have realized that it takes a lot of bandwidth and effort to keep that extra box with 100,000K users up and running, especially with the things people use free mail accounts for (spam boxes and to side-step site registration restrictions).

    If you really need a permanent e-mail box, or a permanent e-mail address, consider purchasing one. POBox.com has been around for several years, and charges roughly 15 dollars per year for mail forwarding for life that, unlike many of the other sites out there, might actually be in business that long.

    If you are lothe to purchase a permanent address, get friendly with your local college administrator, ISP owner, or Colo guy at bigcompany.com. Most people who own a domain name have no problem giving out .01% of their bandwidth and system resources to a friend. And unlike many of the services that I know will be mentioned here, that address will actually survive.

    • Re:Survival (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Fat Cow ( 13247 )
      When I chose a permanent email a few years ago - this was my primary consideration - security. You don't want to be changing it every year or so.

      I chose Yahoo because they're stable, free and had a POP3 interface at the time. The POP3 interface went away (kind of...see YahooPOPS) but all else remained as I'd hoped.

      However, now I realize that what you really want to have control of is your address itself, which you can only get by having your own domain. You can always redirect the dns mail record thing
  • You mean there's another way?

    Seriously, I remember somebody making a comment about how he used telnet to log in and check his email, and his teacher freaking out claiming he's a liar and you can only check your mail from hotmail and he must be doing that illegal 'hacking' stuff.

    Sounds like a good candidate for a short trip in the candle truck.

    But seriously, Yahoo! mail.

    Mind you, webmail is a huge barrier to using a PKI to validate mail and prevent spam - the client should do it since servers don't reall

  • For 5 euros one time payment you get 5 25MB POP3 boxes with various security features, 3 different webmails access. If you pay one time 29 euros, you get unlimited POP3 boxes and mailing lists handling. For 8.9 additional euros per year you get your com/org/net domain with full web DNS configuration and DynHost. They've answered all my stupid questions in less than a day.

    Disclaimer: I'm an happy paying customer and switched all my email and DNS t

  • 1. Register your own domain ($ 12, approx. for a year)
    2. Sign up to a cheap and friendly ISP that has a webmail interface (I use Sevaa.com, $4 a month, but there are other, possibly cheaper ones out there).
    3. ???
    4. Prophet.

    I used to use my ISP's webmail interface until they went $crazy$ with $ads$ $ever$ywher$e, I switched - and I'm happy now.
  • My alma mater uses it. It's free, pretty, fast, and has a ton of slap on/plug in modules for adding functionality.
  • It's a webmail solution, it supports IMAP for remote connectivity, and it filters your spam 100% of the time! It uses a challenge/response solution to prevent unwanted mail from coming in. It supports forwarded mail accounts, and it has a whole host of other features.

    It's only $9.95 for 1 year (current promo gives you 3 years at $9.95!) for 12 MB of storage. Sorry it's not free, but it is worth 3 times the amount I paid for it. I love it! It's an awesome web-based mail client and I NEVER have to insta
  • I've been using GMX [gmx.net] for four years. I started using it way back when it was a multilingual service, but now it's only in German. It has a really good spam filter setup. When it filters an incoming email into the junk folder it indicates whether it was from a global antispam list, text scan, etc. Sadly though the free accounts don't have things like secure sign in.

  • with a one time donation:

    100mb webspace
    100mb email
    100mb storage.

    You get email with webmail and also a ssh/telnet account onto a server. Also avalable free but with less space

  • your own webmail (Score:3, Informative)

    by TheSHAD0W ( 258774 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @03:21PM (#7146202) Homepage
    Go out and find a cheap web account with POP that only charges a few dollars a month. Then install a script-based email client [cgiextremes.com]. The end result will have no annoying advertising, and you'll have web space and your own domain to play with to boot.
  • Totally perl based, and rather thourough.
    I use it on a medium end coloc machine, and it runs wonderfully.
    Here [openwebmail.org] is the primary mirror site dealie. It has pop3 support, webdisk support, and a calander w/ reminder/notification support.

    Been using it since it was Neomail, and I haven't had a single problem.
  • Yahoo MailPlus gives you POP, 25MB, very good spam filtering.

    Yes, I know the question said FREE but really, is $35 USD that much? I use email every day. It was money well spent for me. What else do you get for $35 a year?

    Anyway, it's not 1999 anymore. Pay for it.
  • I've been using their free POP/SMTP mail for over a year now, and it has worked very nicely. They also offer paid services with larger mail spool and transfer limits, and have a webmail interface if you want to use it.
  • I looked for a good webmail system that also supported IMAP. I finally found it in www.fastmail.fm. It is a pay service but it is very reasonable if you want a reliable email system. I pay $20 a year for: 50 MB storage space 200 MB bw/month IMAP/POP/Web access SMTP for sending email Mail forwarding Virus checker Advanced SPAM filter 3 Aliases They have a FREE service as well as one tier of service lower and one higher than the one I chose. Check it out. I have been very pleased.

  • SquirrelMail (Score:5, Interesting)

    by EvilOpie ( 534946 ) * on Monday October 06, 2003 @03:44PM (#7146454) Homepage
    If you run your own mail server, I'd recommend installing SquirrelMail [squirrelmail.org]. All you basically need is an imap connection to the server that hosts the email, and your web server has to be able to run PHP scripts.

    I know it has a funny name, but SquirrelMail is free, open sourced, and fairly easy to install. And it should do everything that you need it to do. (it may not have *all* the bells and whistles, but it gets the job done) And so long as you're running it on your mail server, you can firewall out imap to everyone but localhost.

    I use this for my home server since I host my own email too. I use it for those rare times when I can't get an SSH connection to the server so that I can use pine instead. Oh, and the college that I work for went with using this for our web-based email that we use here for the students. While there may be better ones out there, the word "free" was very attractive, plus it did what we needed it to. So we host 4000+ email accounts with using this to access them. (though we changed the logos and graphics and things like that. It's fairly customizeable as well.) I'd say it was worth your time to check it out.
    • We run SquirrelMail at work. Can't remember if I'm the one that found it or not. After turning on mod_gzip I had to upgrade to the latest version as of a couple of weeks ago. It's nice.

      For personal mail I use my ISP's webmail software. I don't recognise it and it doesn't have a brand. Sorry.

    • Similarly, IMP [horde.org] does the same job. I use it on my ADSL box so I can access my email via https (self-signed certificate; basically I have to accept the cert each time) from anywhere. At home, I have IMAP access via local LAN.
  • Get a Comcast Cable account. It comes with the best webmail I've ever seen. I mean, who wouldn't want a client that not only opens the mail in a new window without warning you, but mazimizes the "member page" while resizing the mail window to a funky size that doesn't fit on an 1152x864 screen? Add to that timeouts and multiple-sending of messages and you've got one slick client.

    If you were asking for the best webmail, then Comcast would be it! Assuming, of course, that by "best" you mean "worst."
  • I've used Yahoo for years. The automatic spam filter is great: I probably get 50 or so spams a month, and almost all of them end up in Yahoo's spam box without me having to place it there. They have full-feature custom filters available as well.

    I also have a couple of junk Hotmail accounts too: but these are not good for much of anything since Hotmail does not have spam filtering. The Hotmail accounts can get 50 spams a day.
    • I probably get 50 or so spams a month

      I wish!

      I'm on 41 spams since midnight (localtime 16:00 right now). I've got my own colo'd mailserver running exim, inline spamassassin, courier and squirrelmail. works a treat

      dave
      • Are these "41 spams so far in one day" on a Yahoo webmail account?
        • Are these "41 spams so far in one day" on a Yahoo webmail account?

          I'd like to use some british political jargon here, "I'd like to refer the honourable member to the reply I gave earlier"

          the reply being...

          "I've got my own colo'd mailserver running exim, inline spamassassin, courier and squirrelmail. works a treat"

          so, well, no. it's not a yahoo account :)

          dave

  • I like Mailinator [mailinator.com]. It's cool and has a FAQ [mailinator.com] that's one of the funniest things I've read lately.
  • telnet freeshell.org

    You can sign up online. The account is nearly
    free -- you need to mail a real US dollar. It
    has POP3 & other services.

    gene

  • Others have said it elsewhere in this article. You can drop 20-30 buck for a years worth. (Monthly isn't worth it; 5-6/month becomes 60-72$ per year!)

    I've used mail.com for three or four years now with much success. It was great for my Europe trip and other times when I didn't have my laptop with me.

    Others have mentioned domain hosts that offer similar services, but then you're also paying nearly as much for the domain. Regarding that issue, you can look to your local community domain. For Los Angele

  • Super Dimensional Fortress (Score:5, Informative)

    by An Onimous Cow Herd ( 8409 ) on Monday October 06, 2003 @04:29PM (#7146943)
    I highly recommend SDF [lonestar.org]. It's an OpenBSD powered, Non-Profit, unix shell account based service. They offer a webmail interface via Squirrelmail (see above posts)
    $1 gets you a lifelong membership with 20MB email (inc. web, POP, IMAP spamfiltering) and 20MB webspace (http://yourname.freeshell.org), along with all major unix shells and common typical unix utilities(elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi/php4 etc. etc.)

    However, if you want to financially support SDF, for a lifetime membership donation of $35, upgrade to ARPA membership and get additional web, email and /home disc storage (100MB for each!) 300MB total)

    ARPA includes compiler access (GCC, ruby, python, perl, lisp etc) and additional internet access - telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf, ICQ etc.
    Click here [lonestar.org] for more information - there's additional services available - MySQL, VPM, SSH-tunnelling, DNS, listservs, virtual hosting etc.

    SDF is not a fly-by-night service, it's a thriving community that's been around for over 16 years with hundreds of members and a lively community (bbs)
    For us European users, we've got a dedicated server at SDF-EU [sdf-eu.org]

    Beats every other suggestion here into a cocked hat :)

    • NetBSD, not OpenBSD.

      It's a shame the $1 account doesn't get you Perl access. I'd considered purchasing ARPA access, but I'm getting along just fine through free accounts on friends' reliable systems.

      SDF:

      $ uptime
      2:08PM up 14:37, 115 users, load averages: 5.26, 5.54, 5.40

  • I've used both hotpop.com & cjb.net for alternative email addresses. both have POP3 and webmail interfaces, and cjb.net allows one to use up to 100 aliases, i think.. it's been a while since I've actually bothered to look in at their homepages because they both just keep working...

    quite a bit of spam though, at times..

  • I haven't seen a computer from which I couldn't access Hotmail from the web. Outlook Express also supports Hotmail accounts directly, so you can easily move and copy emails around between your own machine and Hotmail. I find it works very well.

    Also, Hotmail can fetch email from other POP accounts for you, so you can then access your email from all your accounts from everywhere!
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  • I really like FastMail [fastmail.fm]. They're "the Fastest Email Service on the Planet." Free POP3 access too. Give them a try.
  • I use it and it works. yahoo like pop with perl help. pipes into procmail :)
    Markus
  • ...SoftHome.net

    YAY!!
  • This question was asked a few times before on slashdot... the usual answer is squirrelmail.
    I tried a bunch of things including squirrelmail, a J2EE app, and even building my own webmail thingy (which by the way worked very well short of dealing with the MIME types, but now I've just retreated to using mutt in telnet.
  • Actually, Yahoo does still offer free POP access, in some of the international versions. I know for a fact that the Australian flavour still enabled creation of accounts with POP access after they made it a pay option for the US one.
  • I hope that you all realise the POP3 and IMAP send logins and passwords in cleartext. I know that most people view email as insecure anyway, but sending around your password in the clear repeatedly (your client checks every 10 or 20 minutes I'd imagine) is just asking for trouble. You wouldn't telnet into a server in this modern age, so why do the equivalent with your email?

    You can teach any client to speak secure POP3 or IMAP by just using stunnel and a email provider that offers an SSL tunnel for these

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