~pcwiz Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 What is your favorite free email service? Share your opinions! Feature Sets: Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) 2GB Storage Space Spam Filter POP3 email access in Outlook and Outlook Express only GMail 4.3GB+ Storage Space Tagging Integrated IM Forwarding POP3 and IMAP Great Speed and Search Function Great Spam Filter Yahoo Mail Unlimited Storage Space (!) Integrated IM Integrated RSS Great Spam Filter Virus Checking * POP3 email access and forwarding are paid features Lycos Mail 3GB Storage Unlimited file attachment size Advanced spam filter Virus checking Domain and Address Blocking AOL Mail Integrates with other AOL products Nothing much else is known ************************** So, your opinion! I personally use GMail which is fantastic and is the best in my opinion. Yahoo! comes a close second (its what I used to use) and if it had free POP3 access its what I'd go for. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Proud Gmail and AIM (AOL) user, one is for play and one is for business. I trust Gmail more... so I would have to say thats my fav... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.aero Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I use both yahoo and Gmail. Yahoo, since it has unlimited storage space, gets anything that can be spam friendly. Gmail gets used for more personal business. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 GMail is my favourite favourite! No Spam, anad it's just awesomely thought out. Plus it's getting better soon, when Gmail 2.0 comes out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neovo Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 With the support of IMAP now, Gmail is a lovely email service. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 100% votes for GMail. That was to be expected. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
damesj Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I agree gmail has the best of everything Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubric Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 gmail for me. i like the fact that SPAM is really restricted to an extent. and it looks neat. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryke Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Even your list in the OP makes it clear that Gmail is the _clear_ winner. Add to that the quickness of its interface and the lack of blinking, moving ads - it's a done deal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 GMail. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 What is your favorite free email service? Share your opinions! Feature Sets: Yahoo Mail Great Spam Filter I have been using Yahoo mail for a few years and I think its spam filter sucks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 my vote goes to Yahoo. ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I voted for gmail, but I disagree about their spam filter. It doesn't block anything except Chinese emails (and on one occasion, a Japanese one). The one thing I like about their spam filter is that you can see the stuff they blocked. Some email services won't show you everything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onetrack Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 My vote for GMAIL: First off now with IMAP I get gmail syncing correctly to mac mail, the gmail web interface and my ipod touch now and its brilliant - if I read an email on one, its automatically marked as read on the others - delete and email - its gone. EXCELLENT and its spam control is fantastic. Also since I'm the admin at work - the very first thing I did was toss out their old exchange server when I took over and installed google apps for small business. We get all these great benefits of gmail - with their own domain name. Plus they get all the google apps, docs and spreadsheets, calendars etc. The company loves it, because they can easily get their email anywhere, administration of the accounts is a total breeze and I don't have to worry about spam control or anti-virus. Only 1/2 hour of service interruption in the last 18 months. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSn1™ Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 GMail, now with more than 4 gb. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUKKU Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 gmail for the spam filtering and IMAP access I even switched my domains to use Google Apps for email/docs/calendars etc. Now if I could just find a good bidirectional sync tool for ical and gcal that's not Spanning Sync and works in 10.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 I knew lots of people would vote GMail but not this many! I read a review of email services by PCWorld Magazine and it said that GMail is only barely better than Yahoo! But Yahoo! is getting better. Their new mail interface is beautiful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
madzilla Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Gmail also has 20mb attachments for free. Another + Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUKKU Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I knew lots of people would vote GMail but not this many! I read a review of email services by PCWorld Magazine and it said that GMail is only barely better than Yahoo! But Yahoo! is getting better. Their new mail interface is beautiful. You have to pay $20/year or whatever to access your yahoo inbox in a regular mail client via pop, no thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-491858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 You have to pay $20/year or whatever to access your yahoo inbox in a regular mail client via pop, no thanks That sucks, I am signing up for GMail account now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 One bad thing about GMail in terms of attachments is that you cannot send .exe files. You can't even send them inside a ZIP archive. Its a small inconvenience though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feyn Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 PS: hotmail is 5GB now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 Well even if it does have 5GB, its not just the storage space that counts. Yahoo! has Unlimited Storage and people still prefer GMail. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiNeR Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Gmail Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 One bad thing about GMail in terms of attachments is that you cannot send .exe files. You can't even send them inside a ZIP archive. Its a small inconvenience though. Yeah - that can be pretty annoying. But all you have to do is rename the extension. Then tell the recipient to rename it back to .exe. (I rarely send .exe files anyway though) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69114-what-is-the-best-free-email/#findComment-492696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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