Best off-the-beaten-track free email? - Page 3

communicant · 8 Dec 2012, 06:24 AM

I just found this at the Umail.net site --

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Umail is closing!

It is with big regret that we inform you that the Umail.net email service is being discontinued. Unfortunately, the current status of the project doesn’t allow us to continue any further.

The Umail service, accessible at http://umail.net, and all related services (like POP3/SMPT servers) will be taken offline on 01/01/2013. After such date, all the data in the system will be permanently deleted.

Please make sure that you have downloaded all of the messages you may want to save and redirected your email addresses to some other service before that date, as we won’t be able to recover it after taking the system offline.

Starting from now, it won’t be possible to create new Umail accounts. Existing accounts will continue to function normally till the indicated date.
Thank you very much for being part of our project. I hope you enjoyed using our services as much as we enjoyed providing them to you, but please accept my most sincere apologies if we are causing you or your business any trouble.

If you need help, you can reach us as support@umail.net, as usual.

Thank you, and best regards.

Administration of Umail.net
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Tsunami · 8 Dec 2012, 06:31 AM

Did that mail.ua service survive the hands of time? That was a Ukrainian provider too, although I believe they relied on EveryoneNet infrastructure.

EDIT: yes it is, and it even has an English sign-up page. It is merging with Mail.ru, which may make this one less interesting for some though.

Good old mail.mn is still around but they seem to use Gmail infrastructure

Back in the old days they had a totally independent system.

drew · 8 Dec 2012, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by communicant

I just found this at the Umail.net site --

----------------------------------------------------------
Umail is closing!

It is with big regret that we inform you that the Umail.net
email service is being discontinued.
...
Thank you, and best regards.

Administration of Umail.net
----------------------------------------------------------

I feel for them such must feel sad indeed.
Wanting success and realizing the competition too hard.

May I trust it is the success of FaceBook that makes too few
motivated to pay ads for less popular small services?

just1acc · 8 Dec 2012, 05:13 PM

With current Gmail's offering, NOT having any other business model ( in short, portal), only leads to this fate of small free email services.

Tsunami · 9 Dec 2012, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drew

I feel for them such must feel sad indeed.
Wanting success and realizing the competition too hard.

May I trust it is the success of FaceBook that makes too few
motivated to pay ads for less popular small services?

In the former USSR, Vkontakte is by far more popular than Facebook. Of course with the same consequences. I wonder how services like Safe Mail, EUMX, Contact Office, etc survive the competition of the big players, although I am happy they do. The last thing we need is that the surviving "small" ones all surrender and force anyone to join one of the big players.

King Of Email · 13 Dec 2012, 04:10 AM

Unfortunately, often when a free email service is listed here, even one that has been around for some time; it folds because of increased signups that the system cannot handle and the administrators do not want to spend more time and money to host.

drew · 13 Dec 2012, 04:36 AM

Are you sure or do you guess?
Have any provider written about it
or told you in private?

We are only a handul active here
and should I trust that hundreds or thousands
just lurk month after month? and then join
every suggested email? Okay you could be right
you are the King and I am just a the pessimistic nobody

communicant · 13 Dec 2012, 05:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by King Of Email

Unfortunately, often when a free email service is listed here, even one that has been around for some time; it folds because of increased signups that the system cannot handle and the administrators do not want to spend more time and money to host.

It is conceivable that you may be correct in some hypothetical case, although the math doesn't readily compute. EMD has some twenty thousand members, of whom only a small percentage make up the subset of those who are likely to sign up for a service just because it is mentioned here. It is difficult to imagine that so many members of a relatively small subset of EMD would join a service all at once, to the point of actually overwhelming it. No doubt many of us do indeed sign up for services mentioned at EMD in order to test them (and also because some members are also avid "collectors"), but not enough to cause a service to fold! In any case, the message from Umail announcing their closure did not indicate that excessive demand played any part in their decision not to continue.

**ReuvenNY** · 13 Dec 2012, 10:47 AM

The RE: umail.net thread was merged into this one.

communicant · 3 Jan 2013, 01:52 AM

Umail.net was supposed to close yesterday, but the service is still up. Perhaps whoever was going to turn out the lights is still hungover from his New Year's celebration! (Or maybe they changed their minds? The hangover is more likely, unfortunately.)

communicant · 12 Jan 2013, 07:16 AM

As of today, Umail.net is still up and functional. Messages to support asking when the site will actually be taken down are not answered. This is strange. I don't suppose they have changed their minds about closing the service, but I wonder what is going on.

FredOnline · 12 Jan 2013, 03:12 PM

This reminds me of the Monty Python "Dead Parrot Sketch":

"is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests in peace"

Sorry for your loss.

sheprd · 12 Jan 2013, 11:50 PM

I went to Umail dot net web site and saw announcement that they were closing as Jan first 2013.

janusz · 12 Jan 2013, 11:54 PM

Well, you could have gone to an earlier post in this thread and found the very same hot news, posted on 7th December 2012

drew · 13 Jan 2013, 03:12 AM

Yes but now when he reminded us some new to the forum
may have been reached. I don't mind so few that post
I think we should be happy for every thoughtful post.

8 Dec 2012, 06:24 AM	#31
communicant Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 879	Umail is closing at the end of the month I just found this at the Umail.net site -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Umail is closing! It is with big regret that we inform you that the Umail.net email service is being discontinued. Unfortunately, the current status of the project doesn’t allow us to continue any further. The Umail service, accessible at http://umail.net, and all related services (like POP3/SMPT servers) will be taken offline on 01/01/2013. After such date, all the data in the system will be permanently deleted. Please make sure that you have downloaded all of the messages you may want to save and redirected your email addresses to some other service before that date, as we won’t be able to recover it after taking the system offline. Starting from now, it won’t be possible to create new Umail accounts. Existing accounts will continue to function normally till the indicated date. Thank you very much for being part of our project. I hope you enjoyed using our services as much as we enjoyed providing them to you, but please accept my most sincere apologies if we are causing you or your business any trouble. If you need help, you can reach us as support@umail.net, as usual. Thank you, and best regards. Administration of Umail.net ----------------------------------------------------------

13 Dec 2012, 04:10 AM	#36
King Of Email Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 622	Umail.net Unfortunately, often when a free email service is listed here, even one that has been around for some time; it folds because of increased signups that the system cannot handle and the administrators do not want to spend more time and money to host.

13 Dec 2012, 10:47 AM	#39
ReuvenNY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York Posts: 4,259	Moderator's comment The RE: umail.net thread was merged into this one.

3 Jan 2013, 01:52 AM	#40
communicant Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 879	As of January 2, 2013, Umail.net is still up Umail.net was supposed to close yesterday, but the service is still up. Perhaps whoever was going to turn out the lights is still hungover from his New Year's celebration! (Or maybe they changed their minds? The hangover is more likely, unfortunately.)

12 Jan 2013, 07:16 AM	#41
communicant Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 879	Dead service walking? As of today, Umail.net is still up and functional. Messages to support asking when the site will actually be taken down are not answered. This is strange. I don't suppose they have changed their minds about closing the service, but I wonder what is going on.

8 Dec 2012, 06:31 AM	#32
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,341	Did that mail.ua service survive the hands of time? That was a Ukrainian provider too, although I believe they relied on EveryoneNet infrastructure. EDIT: yes it is, and it even has an English sign-up page. It is merging with Mail.ru, which may make this one less interesting for some though. Good old mail.mn is still around but they seem to use Gmail infrastructure Back in the old days they had a totally independent system.

8 Dec 2012, 05:13 PM	#34
just1acc Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 441	With current Gmail's offering, NOT having any other business model ( in short, portal), only leads to this fate of small free email services.

13 Dec 2012, 04:36 AM	#37
drew The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,626	Are you sure or do you guess? Have any provider written about it or told you in private? We are only a handul active here and should I trust that hundreds or thousands just lurk month after month? and then join every suggested email? Okay you could be right you are the King and I am just a the pessimistic nobody

12 Jan 2013, 03:12 PM	#42
FredOnline The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 2,616	This reminds me of the Monty Python "Dead Parrot Sketch": "is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests in peace" Sorry for your loss.

12 Jan 2013, 11:50 PM	#43
sheprd The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: VA, USA Posts: 2,789	I went to Umail dot net web site and saw announcement that they were closing as Jan first 2013.

12 Jan 2013, 11:54 PM	#44
janusz The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: EU Posts: 4,945	Well, you could have gone to an earlier post in this thread and found the very same hot news, posted on 7th December 2012

13 Jan 2013, 03:12 AM	#45
drew The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,626	Yes but now when he reminded us some new to the forum may have been reached. I don't mind so few that post I think we should be happy for every thoughtful post.