Praise For Myrealbox.com and Fastmail - Page 2

jhs · 7 Apr 2002, 06:18 AM

It is true you can send an email with a fake from address with FastMail, but so can you with any mail client (e.g. Outlook Express). So it is not like FastMail has opened for a new way to abuse email.

jpkinc · 10 Apr 2002, 11:26 PM

I have just started using fastmail.fm, so I don't know if the limitations of 40 Mb are there for me.
There's Eurosport.com with 20 Mb of storage, and up to 5 Mb for each message, and no monthly limits. But IS SLOW.

Can anyone help?
I am trying to set up Signatures.
One as "Business" and second as "Personal".
Business is full name (first name & surname)
Personal is first name only.
But I cannot do both as I get a message that the signature already
exists.
Please advise

Neil · 11 Apr 2002, 01:11 AM

I have used both Fastmail and MRB, as well as
mailandnews.com (which was supposed to shut down but got a
last-minute reprieve).

I find them all very useful in their own way.

Myrealbox is, as noted elsewhere, a demo vehicle for
Novell. It has no interest in selling any kind of
advertising or charging any kind of user fees. As long as
Novell keeps doing good business, I don't think we have to
worry about MRB shutting down.

MRB provides excellent free POP and SMTP service, and its
primary web mail interface is not too shabby either.
(Can't stand the alternate interface with lots of
hieroglyphics.)

Fastmail should appeal especially to users of the Arachne
web browser for DOS. Of all the online mail services I
have ever tried, Fastmail is the friendliest to Arachne.

Strange thing about Fastmail: It offers POP service only
to cash customers, but allows free users to use an IMAP
client. I don't know why they didn't do it the other way
around. After all, IMAP generally leaves msgs taking up
space on the server, while POP doesn't.

Mailandnews has an especially nice scheduler feature. And
its filtering rules offer a bit more flexibility than some
others.

So in summary, it's not a question of one being better
than the others for all purposes. Each one has its
strengths, and as long as their all free, everyone can
take advantage of the best features of all of them.

robert@fm · 11 Apr 2002, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Neil
Strange thing about Fastmail: It offers POP service only
to cash customers, but allows free users to use an IMAP
client. I don't know why they didn't do it the other way
around. After all, IMAP generally leaves msgs taking up
space on the server, while POP doesn't.

The reason (if I'm not mistaken) is that Rob and Jeremy (who own/run FastMail) feel that IMAP is (a) not as well-known as it should be and (b) vastly superior to POP, so for those two reasons they force non-subscribers to use IMAP.  (I for one wish that POP were available at Member level, as I want to download all mail and this is much easier in POP than in IMAP, especially in Pegasus Mail where there is no facility to migrate new-mail filter rules to general-folder rules, or vice-versa.)

10 Apr 2002, 11:26 PM	#17
jpkinc Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 9	Fastmail I have just started using fastmail.fm, so I don't know if the limitations of 40 Mb are there for me. There's Eurosport.com with 20 Mb of storage, and up to 5 Mb for each message, and no monthly limits. But IS SLOW. Can anyone help? I am trying to set up Signatures. One as "Business" and second as "Personal". Business is full name (first name & surname) Personal is first name only. But I cannot do both as I get a message that the signature already exists. Please advise

11 Apr 2002, 01:11 AM	#18
Neil Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2	Fastmail and MRB I have used both Fastmail and MRB, as well as mailandnews.com (which was supposed to shut down but got a last-minute reprieve). I find them all very useful in their own way. Myrealbox is, as noted elsewhere, a demo vehicle for Novell. It has no interest in selling any kind of advertising or charging any kind of user fees. As long as Novell keeps doing good business, I don't think we have to worry about MRB shutting down. MRB provides excellent free POP and SMTP service, and its primary web mail interface is not too shabby either. (Can't stand the alternate interface with lots of hieroglyphics.) Fastmail should appeal especially to users of the Arachne web browser for DOS. Of all the online mail services I have ever tried, Fastmail is the friendliest to Arachne. Strange thing about Fastmail: It offers POP service only to cash customers, but allows free users to use an IMAP client. I don't know why they didn't do it the other way around. After all, IMAP generally leaves msgs taking up space on the server, while POP doesn't. Mailandnews has an especially nice scheduler feature. And its filtering rules offer a bit more flexibility than some others. So in summary, it's not a question of one being better than the others for all purposes. Each one has its strengths, and as long as their all free, everyone can take advantage of the best features of all of them.

7 Apr 2002, 06:18 AM	#16
jhs Essential Contributor Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Posts: 350	It is true you can send an email with a fake from address with FastMail, but so can you with any mail client (e.g. Outlook Express). So it is not like FastMail has opened for a new way to abuse email.