I found Germany providers...

[jeffpan]

• There are more than any other country, the well known ones include GMX, web.de, Freenet, T-online, Posteo.de, Directbox...
• Most of them are high quality, i.e., GMX and web.de
• Most domains are ended with .de, and the supported language is germany only
• Most of them limit people from outside the DE to sign up

How do you think of that?

[drew]

Most of them limit people from outside the DE to sign up

I think that one should always refer to such limits
when one desribe them here on EMD.

To pretend that anybody can sign up
when that is not the case is to mislead us.

GMX.com is not a top provider for me.
I had extremely many obvious spam
and other email sproviders like
Gmail, Yahoo, Live.com, Fastmail,
did not have those spam during same time
so GMX.com is way behind the top providers.

Apart from that I would use German providers
but my German language skill is almost zero.

sure one can always use google translate of a whole page
and that would allow one to get most of the text

web.de, Freenet, T-online, Posteo.de, Directbox...

Example of problems with one of the mention email providers

http://download.web.de/toolbar/firef...de_toolbar.xpi

web.de want me to instal that toolbar or else no sign up.
How did you solve signing up or did you accept the toolbar?
so which of these allow international users to sign up?

Freenet also put up obstacles for us that don't want to lie.

They ask for Street and Town we live in.
And the PLZ which most likely is the German
version of physical mail number for where you live
so most likely they don't want other than Germans?

And they want the House number.
We don't have that system in sweden
here the IRS give each household a unique number
but not to the house. Okay the Athorities have such
for selling or renting a place to place to the house
but that is the land the house is built on and not the house as such

Have you signed up? Do you live in Germany?

Der Ort wurde im Gebiet der Postleitzahl nicht gefunden.
Translated to
The place was not found in the field of postal code.

obviously they expected a german code for the place I live
So only german users are expected.

[drew]

So which of them apart from GMX.com allow
us international users to sign up?

Deutche Telecom seems to accept international users
at least it looks like that at first page of signup.

But one have to agree to get email with ads from their partners.

Yes, I want to receive exclusive offers and information.
I agree that the German Telekom AG my contract data
and certain usage data for the advice, information and
market research to products of Deutsche Telekom AG
used by e-mail, mail, telephone, SMS or MMS.
may at any time revoke my consent.

Could tell me how often they send such and
what advertisers do they make use of ?

Posteo.de seems to not be totally free or I fail to read what they wrote?

For 1 EUR per month (incl. VAT)
You will receive a safe and ad free e-mail account, which is operated at 100% with real green power.

With us there is no unnecessary contract agreement: You can cancel at any time before the end of the month and have a 14 day return policy after you have opened your mailbox. Remaining balance can be refunded or donated.

Maybe that is just an option and not required for to sign up?

Have you sign up. Do you like it?

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by drew

So which of them apart from GMX.com allow
us international users to sign up?

Deutche Telecom seems to accept international users
at least it looks like that at first page of signup.

But one have to agree to get email with ads from their partners.



Could tell me how often they send such and
what advertisers do they make use of ?

When I say GMX I in fact meant GMX.net or GMX.de, not the com one.
Maybe none of these can be signed up without a germany home address or phone number.
I personally have all of those, some got by myself, some with the helps of friends there.

Merry Xmas!

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by drew

Could tell me how often they send such and
what advertisers do they make use of ?

I have kept a t-online account from 2009.
They send the ADs very few times.
But Web.de and GMX.net are terrible, they send ADs each 2-3 days..

[drew]

directbox.de do allow many countries
but they do want your actual street
and the number and house number too.

Street and house number *
Postcode / town *

Have you signed up did you like it?

[drew]

To get help by people living there
would be to cheat in my part of EU.

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by drew

directbox.de do allow many countries
but they do want your actual street
and the number and house number too.



Have you signed up did you like it?

I in fact have no directbox acct, it's may due to the fact I currently have a lot of other germany email boxes.

[Tsunami]

The opening post should contain the nuances that web.de and GMX.de both require a German, Austrian or Swiss IP to sign up. (pity for the folks in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Belgium - where German is also an official language)

Also, are you sure that T-Online would give away mailboxes to people not subscribed to their ISP service?

And finally, fame is very relative. I lived in Germany for a year and never met anyone using Posteo or Directbox. Almost all either used GMX or Web.de, and the occasional persons using Gmail or their ISP's domain.

[jeffpan]

Also, are you sure that T-Online would give away mailboxes to people not subscribed to their ISP service?

I do have a free t-online.de mailbox from years ago.
I have forgotten how to get it.

[janusz]

Originally Posted by jeffpan

I have forgotten how to get it

https://meinkonto.telekom-dienste.de...=email&ready=1

I registered a new address even though
a) I'm not a t-online.de paying customer
b) I do not live in Germany (residential./business address not needed during the sign-up process)
c) I was connected from a non-German/Austrian/Swiss IP address

[drew]

janusz very good that you tested and told us
but me get skeptical. I fit is that good
why have we not heard of it again and again
in the forum. Why would those that join
not tell about it? But that is just me
and maybe it is a very good email service.

Maybe I test it too. Haha I am too slow
entering all the info. They told me

Your session has expired

I am so slow filling in all the data. I finally understood the Chapta

and I have an account now and they tell me that

The advantages of the Media Centre at a glance
25 GB of online storage for free

I wonder how they get payed for that generous offer.
The email quota is just 1GB so kind of odd that the
mediacenter has 25GB.

[Dutchie007]

T-online.de is an so-so service...it´s not realy very good nore is it very bad. It´s just nothing to brag about. Only advantage as I see it....the company is rather big and is most likely to be arround for many years to come.
Most Germans(I know off) use gmail,yahoo or GMX as their (free) email. WEB.de more and more is for old people;just recently they changed their storage from 25 mb (!) to 500...which is nothing special nowadays. If you use their browser plugin in they give you 1 gig...OOO Gooddie....thanks but NO thanks. (try mail.ru...they give 100 gigs FREE cloud storage!!)

The weblogin at t-online.de is especialy a drag....and not very logic imho.
They do have free imap so you can also use an email client if you like.

I for me prefer to use mail.ru,(or mail2000.us)Yandex or infact the new vivaldi looks decent for my free email accounts. Just anything that isn´t Gmail,Yahoo,AOL or Outlook or anything else in the NSA snoopers family;-)

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!!....happy New year...Feliz Año Nuevo and Gott nytt år and offcourse...Frohes neues Jahr!!

Dutchie.

[Dutchie007]

If any of you guys are still looking for German based (free) email accounts...pls look here:

http://www.emailtester.de/freemail/anbieter.php

bye

Dutchie

[communicant]

Originally Posted by Dutchie007

If any of you guys are still looking for German based (free) email accounts...pls look here:

http://www.emailtester.de/freemail/anbieter.php

bye

Dutchie

A very interesting and useful site.

Here is one puzzle -- I did wonder why their chart listed Rediff as an American provider based in Chicago. As far as I know, it is a large Indian portal. You can have an email account at Rediffmail.com without having to be in India, and I suppose they may possibly have servers in other countries, but the company is surely not American!