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7 Mar 2008, 02:48 AM | #1 | |
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Mail.com increases email storage to 3GB
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7 Mar 2008, 03:05 AM | #2 |
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7 Mar 2008, 03:26 AM | #3 |
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it is webmail and not pop3 or imap4?
I remember vaguely me had an account some three or four years ago. Why did I stop using it and why are others rather negative about mail.com? Are they not reliable? I have forgotten. Enlighten me Crazy question. GMX say they can retrieve emails from hotmail and yahoo.com. Can they do the same from mail.com? Last edited by drew : 7 Mar 2008 at 03:56 AM. |
7 Mar 2008, 04:46 AM | #4 |
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It's just webmail, the free service offering no POP3 or IMAP or even autoforwarding. But it's a great service to use if you like lots of popups and other ads.
I don't know whether it can be used to retrieve mail from other accounts, but I believe it once could be used to access external POP3 accounts and wouldn't be surprised if it still has that feature, as many webmail services do, although I can't personally see much use for it in this case. And I very much doubt it can be used to retrieve messages from free Hotmail or Yahoo or any other webmail-only accounts. Edit: Rereading your message, your reference to GMX(.com?) being able to retrieve mail from Hotmail and Yahoo, although I'm not sure if I'll ever have use for that feature or not, if true, comes as news to me. Last edited by xmailer : 7 Mar 2008 at 04:52 AM. |
7 Mar 2008, 04:54 AM | #5 |
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The problem is mail.com is a great domain, so is post.com and email.com, they have so many great domains (goto mail.com and look...).
I had several mail.com addresses in the 90's, including myname@indiana.usa.tld, me@bikerider.tld -- and firstname.lastname@usa.tld which I paid for forwarding for several years until a couple of years ago -- but they wanted $20 per year per address for forwarding <choke>. Which does not compare to the 33 aliases, and 200 domain aliases I get at Fastmail for $40 per year... Added: Although with Firefox and AdBlock, mail.com is usable. Last edited by zhak : 7 Mar 2008 at 05:02 AM. Reason: added last part |
7 Mar 2008, 05:58 AM | #6 |
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Yep. Like free Yahoo and Hotmail accounts are "usable." In fact, Firefox with Adblock is how I've been logging into it on the rare occasions when I do, although I only routinely autopoll it through FreePops from my bluehome.net account (which is how I received the update I posted above), after reactivating only my once most-used free mail.com address (which I used to have set to autoforward elsewhere) just on the off chance I may receive a message there from someone for whom that may be the most recent contact information they have for me, Other than "passively" monitoring it in that way, I don't use it for anything else.
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14 Mar 2008, 03:27 AM | #7 |
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Mail.com
Mail.com and Email.com are too fundamental by name extension alone to ignore, and I have both as alternative contact addresses for many services since the beginning. I only wish to God they'd drop the pop up ads. Only pikers and amateurs still foist this kind of annoying irritant on their users. 3GB is a lot for this service, but I'd prefer 100MB if they removed the pop ups, spam, and endless banner ads. I really wish Mail.com would re-develop Webmail.com into a premier service without any of this, either free or paid that is if they still own the domain. That name extension has been offline far too long and is wasted when it could be something great. Maybe Google can buy it and develop it.
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14 Mar 2008, 03:46 AM | #8 | |
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Ok the yahoo.com account but I doubt it would work. Could not somebody curious enough test it? I'm so lazy. Have no idea how to set it up either. Maybe the gmx forum have people mentioning it? |
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14 Mar 2008, 08:14 AM | #9 |
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It's a bit off-topic here, I guess, if not more than a bit, but since it's come up, since my above post I've perused the gmx.com forum for awhile, and the latest status, as of a couple days ago or so anyway, seems to be that they are intending to support collection of mail from Hotmail, Yahoo, and perhaps a number of other among the more well-known free webmail services. But based on quite a number of posts from users having problems with the polling of external accounts in general, including accounts which have POP access, they still seem to have a lot of bugs to work out with the external polling feature, some users reporting success, while quite a few others seem to be having a number of problems with it.
I didn't bother trying to set up my @hotmail.com account, but instead tried setting up one of my @live.com accounts for collection by GMX, but was unable to do so, getting a somewhat cryptic error message in at least a couple of attempts. One or more forum members have posted informing them that they should be able to poll @live.com, since it's the same service as hotmail.com (xpmail.net was also mentioned), which the gmx people there didn't even seem clearly aware of, although they did respond that they would look into the issue, but at least as of the last time I consulted the forum, no mention had yet been made of their having resolved it. In fact, despite some fairly positive reviews of the gmx.com service in these forums, there seem to be quite a large number of complaints from users in their own forum, including from quite a few users claiming to have seen advertisements for the service in a few very popular tech-related publications (can't recall which ones at the moment), many of them seeming to feel that the service had been "over-promoted" (my own best term at the moment) for a service which they felt was less "ready for primetime" than the advertising had led them rto believe, apparently having thought it might be more ready for use as a primary service than their experience with it proved to be the case. Based on everything I've seen and read, I'm somewhat inclined to think they may be justified in that complaint, as many seemed at least a little surprised after reading the advertising even to learn that the service was, in fact, still only in Beta, something which their advertising, at least purportedly, hadn't made fully clear. |
14 Mar 2008, 08:04 PM | #10 |
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Maybe me go off topic too?
Sometimes we hear about services like Mass Media that don't trust free services they prompt us to use an IP related service email for to sign up to get a free product. The problem with this is that while you may use hotmail all your life you will change IP everytime you move to a new neighborhood cause your old IP has not established itself in that region. That was happening to me. Much lower price and better service from other IP. So the old email address I gave got deleted when I changed where to live. So these services that demand an email address from an IP instead of a free service is locking us in. I do get why they want it. The IP knows who you are while the free services could not be so sure or the info given to them. Mail.com has some interesting domain names. which makes them interesting but if they have a lot of ads and pop ups that is not so good. I've been using operamail several times a week recently and I still don't like to use webmail and mail.com is webmail. Now that hotmail and live.com is downloadable using live mail client then it would be more practical to use them as a kind of DEA to give to New Your Times Magazing or whatever service one need to give email too. |
9 Jul 2008, 01:51 PM | #11 | |
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Thunderbird (the famous e-mail client) as a very cool webmail plugin, it allows you to download webmail from mail.com into your thunderbird client. Get it here http://webmail.mozdev.org/ Then, Thunderbird as you know also has a good antispam system, so it filters the spam for you out into a junk folder as you download the mail, mail.com's antispam is much better in the last year but it's always good to have extra layers of protection. Thunderbird can forward, store, whatever you want to do with your mail, it's another cool mail client. So now you can have mail.com, free, with no ads, downloaded on a client with a double layer of antispam protection, and you get the mail.com address! I was very excited when I discovered this myself! |
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9 Jul 2008, 07:32 PM | #12 |
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But if they read here they plug it rather fast?
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