GMX Beta for non German Residents - Page 2

**CyberSmurf** · 16 Nov 2007, 02:05 PM

http://help.gmx.com/mail/overview/quota/

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GMX Mail Quota

5 GB Storage
E-Mail Attachments (Sending and Receiving): 50 MB maximum
10 E-Mail Addresses per Account
Spam Protection
Anti-Virus Scanner

POP3, IMAP & SMTP

POP3 Server: pop.gmx.com
SMTP Server for outgoing mails: mail.gmx.com
IMAP4 Server: imap.gmx.com

It sounds as though we may be able to set up 10 aliases, but not right-away for new accounts?
Maybe the gmx.co.uk accounts can add/delete aliases?

I had a little trouble getting IMAP working, but after I exited and restarted Outlook Express everything was okay.
IMAP and POP work on standard (non-SSL) ports.
SMTP on port 587 (non-SSL) with authentication works okay. (My ISP blocks port 25).

fabule · 16 Nov 2007, 02:44 PM

It loads fast from here and it looks great! We can't competit with GMX's GUI

We are trying to compensate this with some other features.

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Originally Posted by kelly

Within a period of two weeks we have @live.com, @eumx.net now @gmx.com open for signups. Is it because Christmas season is before us?

The GUI for GMX looks nice, though the loading is very sloooow. Makes Gmail look instantaneous!

jeffpan · 16 Nov 2007, 04:26 PM

Will give a high sing to GMX.

GMX is the best email I have used, except for gmail.

pin · 16 Nov 2007, 05:21 PM

I used to have a GMX account many moons ago but haven't logged in for years.

So I signed up for a new account and I have to say the GMX beta looks really, really good!

It has :

A nice, clean user interface (probably based on AJAX)
SMTP/POP3/IMAP
5GB storage for you mail
Calender / Organiser features
1GB file storage

Well worth signing up for an account in my opinion!

Berenburger · 16 Nov 2007, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fabule

It loads fast from here and it looks great! We can't competit with GMX's GUI

I'm on a slow link now. GMX is very, very slow in opposite of OWM; it is very fast!

earlzsta · 16 Nov 2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelly

Within a period of two weeks we have @live.com, @eumx.net now @gmx.com open for signups. Is it because Christmas season is before us?

The GUI for GMX looks nice, though the loading is very sloooow. Makes Gmail look instantaneous!

It loads faster in Germany, I promise!

paul33 · 16 Nov 2007, 07:10 PM

he

?
gmx besides gmail the best email?
jeffpan whats up

?
are you not a yahoo mail fan?

how can you say such a thing

for me gmx is just a bad , slow , full of ad email service and it looks as a
cheap clone of yahoo mail.

yahoo has ads too, but never so much like gmx.and if you want to get rid of ads it is cheaper to get yahoo mail plus as to buy a adfree account at gmx.

alexu2007 · 16 Nov 2007, 07:34 PM

There seems to be no advertising banners in my gmx.com account. Do you see advertising when you use your gmx.com email account??

jeffpan · 16 Nov 2007, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul33

he

?
gmx besides gmail the best email?
jeffpan whats up

?
are you not a yahoo mail fan?

how can you say such a thing

for me gmx is just a bad , slow , full of ad email service and it looks as a
cheap clone of yahoo mail.

yahoo has ads too, but never so much like gmx.and if you want to get rid of ads it is cheaper to get yahoo mail plus as to buy a adfree account at gmx.

Yahoo is not as good as GMX at all,from my personal view.
Yahoo is really full of AD, without smtp/pop3/imap,without forwarding.It's just a webmail.
GMX is flowery much and stable much than yahoo.I can show a dozens of examples that yahoo delay message or reject the normal messages.But GMX doesn't (at least I didn't see it did in my last 2 years of using it).

I'm not Yahoo fans,and maybe never.
But I love GMX!

GeraldR · 16 Nov 2007, 08:07 PM

To save others making the mistake I just made:

The imap account GMX.COM wants is x@gmx.com. Just x did not work for me.

paul33 · 16 Nov 2007, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by alexu2007

There seems to be no advertising banners in my gmx.com account. Do you see advertising when you use your gmx.com email account??

thats strange, but be sure if not yet, then it will come in future , i mean ads, in a massive way. my gmx is full of ads. gmx is known for this here in germany, they send you every day an ad email. so i have to delet every day an email.

as for you jeffpan, maybe you should remove the big red "Y" from your avatar, it lets look you as a yahoo fan

and yahoo has here in gemany pop3 too like gmx.
and less ads than gmx. i you guys do not believe i have to make screenshoots

jeffpan · 16 Nov 2007, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul33

thats strange, but be sure if not yet, then it will come in future , i mean ads, in a massive way. my gmx is full of ads. gmx is known for this here in germany, they send you every day an ad email. so i have to delet every day an email.

as for you jeffpan, maybe you should remove the big red "Y" from your avatar, it lets look you as a yahoo fan

and yahoo has here in gemany pop3 too like gmx.
and less ads than gmx. i you guys do not believe i have to make screenshoots

Ok paul you are may right. We stop contention about yahoo and gmx here.
I remembered that you recommend Arcor here, now I use it as a forward service, though its webmail is not good with much footags in the outgoing messages.But its forwarding combiled with its 15 alias accounts are pretty much good. Luzo has mentioned most the DE freemail providers have higher ranks than others,that's right,germany products are most good,like my germany car.

**CyberSmurf** · 17 Nov 2007, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeraldR

To save others making the mistake I just made:

The imap account GMX.COM wants is x@gmx.com. Just x did not work for me.

Your "GMX ID" works as well (e.g. 43123456).

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaptitsky

...
I have an old GMX.net account, and I am used to logging into POP with my user ID, which is the classic way German providers used. It allows mapping multiple aliases to one user.

I note that my old ID number is in the 6 million range 6XXXXXX, and my new one is in the 43 million number range 43XXXXXX.
...

xmailer · 17 Nov 2007, 12:09 AM

So this is what they stick their non-German users with? Way, way, WAY too slow. Even with all the ads, gmx.NET loads a hundred times faster for me. And has many more useful features. Does this gmx.com even have the most basic filters? Not that I'm able to find. Which puts it about on a par with AOL/AIM as far as webmail goes IMO.

About the only things this has going for it, that I can see, are a good, short simple domain name (and a "good" user name, thanks to its being new) and possibly POP/IMAP if they work well. And a good amount of storage space, but no more than Hotmail has, and even being no big fan of Hotmail, IMO this makes Hotmail's web interface look great by comparison. At least with Hotmail I don't have to wait all day for page loads to do anything with it. Regarding the gmx.com webmail specifically, this all seems like much ado about (almost literally) nothing to me. A giant leap backward in terms of features and functionality. Okay so it's a simple and "pretty" interface -- when and if it finishes loading.

**CyberSmurf** · 17 Nov 2007, 12:24 AM

I was wondering about the difference between the versions.

The English users get IMAP and more space. And possibly in the future, 10 aliases instead of 2.

But, as far as speed and ease of use, the German webmail seems better. And I have to use Babel Fish with that.

But, the English version is Beta, so maybe they are using us for testing before making any changes on to the German version.
Possibly, they may even close registrations once they get a certain number of "test" accounts, a la MyRealbox.

16 Nov 2007, 08:07 PM	#25
GeraldR Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 227	IMAP user name To save others making the mistake I just made: The imap account GMX.COM wants is x@gmx.com. Just x did not work for me.

16 Nov 2007, 04:26 PM	#18
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,162 Representative of: tls-mail.com	Will give a high sing to GMX. GMX is the best email I have used, except for gmail.

16 Nov 2007, 05:21 PM	#19
pin Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Warrington, UK Posts: 233	I used to have a GMX account many moons ago but haven't logged in for years. So I signed up for a new account and I have to say the GMX beta looks really, really good! It has : A nice, clean user interface (probably based on AJAX) SMTP/POP3/IMAP 5GB storage for you mail Calender / Organiser features 1GB file storage Well worth signing up for an account in my opinion!

16 Nov 2007, 07:10 PM	#22
paul33 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 179	he ? gmx besides gmail the best email? jeffpan whats up ? are you not a yahoo mail fan? how can you say such a thing for me gmx is just a bad , slow , full of ad email service and it looks as a cheap clone of yahoo mail. yahoo has ads too, but never so much like gmx.and if you want to get rid of ads it is cheaper to get yahoo mail plus as to buy a adfree account at gmx.

16 Nov 2007, 07:34 PM	#23
alexu2007 Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 287	There seems to be no advertising banners in my gmx.com account. Do you see advertising when you use your gmx.com email account??

17 Nov 2007, 12:09 AM	#29
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	So this is what they stick their non-German users with? Way, way, WAY too slow. Even with all the ads, gmx.NET loads a hundred times faster for me. And has many more useful features. Does this gmx.com even have the most basic filters? Not that I'm able to find. Which puts it about on a par with AOL/AIM as far as webmail goes IMO. About the only things this has going for it, that I can see, are a good, short simple domain name (and a "good" user name, thanks to its being new) and possibly POP/IMAP if they work well. And a good amount of storage space, but no more than Hotmail has, and even being no big fan of Hotmail, IMO this makes Hotmail's web interface look great by comparison. At least with Hotmail I don't have to wait all day for page loads to do anything with it. Regarding the gmx.com webmail specifically, this all seems like much ado about (almost literally) nothing to me. A giant leap backward in terms of features and functionality. Okay so it's a simple and "pretty" interface -- when and if it finishes loading.

17 Nov 2007, 12:24 AM	#30
CyberSmurf Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,011	I was wondering about the difference between the versions. The English users get IMAP and more space. And possibly in the future, 10 aliases instead of 2. But, as far as speed and ease of use, the German webmail seems better. And I have to use Babel Fish with that. But, the English version is Beta, so maybe they are using us for testing before making any changes on to the German version. Possibly, they may even close registrations once they get a certain number of "test" accounts, a la MyRealbox.