[OT] I need Email
 

Hey there, this is an off-topic post that I hope to keep rant-free. Let's all see if I succeed.

I need an email account. So PBW can send me turns, and family and friends can leave me Messages, etc. I want to have the email address as I shift from ISP to ISP. Here's what I know:

Hotmail - Sucks. I'm drowning in spam and M$ adverts.

Yahoo Mail - Was suggested by a friend, he said it was fairly spam and ad-free. I dunno though. I don't like their flash ads.

Comcast Cable - I'll be leaving Comcast Cable's service area, so that email account will soon die.

AT&T Dialup - I have this for now, I liked it before I went to cable. Damm it's slow. I may not keep it. So there's no point in spreading this email address around.

All of them refuse to work with Zone Alarm Pro firewall running and the Proxomitron. Yes, I can tweak those apps to allow the specific cookies needed, but blocking ads prevents their web-based email from working. Hotmail won't work at all, Comcast cable asks 7 times to load the Flash executable -- and I simply don't want it on my computer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

What I need is an email service with a few polite non-animated ads or none, that sends minimal cookies, and web access is a plus but not essential. I would spend maybe 20-30 USD a month if it were ad and spam free. Any suggestions along those lines.

Any help at all, really. Thanks.

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I use Hotmail, pull it into Outlook Express (no web adds), and have the filter set to 'Enhanced'. If a Hotmail account starts generating too much spam, just pick up a new one. And be more carefull with it. Don't give it out, don't let it be seen in full form on any web page (the crawlers will catch it), and don't give it out.

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If you are interested, I could set up an account on Yahoo France for you, because the service is better than on Yahoo.com or Yahoo.co.uk (I have yet to see a spam or an ad on my e-mails there, and you can use Outlook or another program to get your mails. Six mo of storage is allowed, so that should be enough for PBW.)

The two drawbacks are you won't be able to use Yahoo webmail as the language will be French, and the adress will end by this domain. Not sure if that suits you though, but it costs nothing to ask. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Apart from that, I don't know any reliable mail provider with a pop access. If you do not mind having to use a webmail, there are quite a few mail providers here and there with little ad on their webmails, and a rather good service. Hope it helps!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Augh! Outlook ... Express... a Microsoft product. Shudder. Ew. I have to shower now.

Alright, I'm exaggerating a little there. That does seem to be a not too terrible idea, but I want to give my email to my colleagues at work, so when I leave, they can send me Messages for a couple of years at least. I want this email address to be 3-4 years in lifetime. I've had 'bout 4 Hotmail accounts already.

Hmmm... I don't think Pegasus mail will work with Hotmail, wonder if there is a web-based email service that will let a third party program work.

[EDIT]

Alneyan, besides Yahoo.fr and Hotmail, what do you suggest as a web based email. Hmmm...Outlook Express is looking better and better. God, I feel dirty admitting that.

[ September 22, 2003, 19:56: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

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If you are willing to pay, a lot of ISP's will offer you an email only account for pretty cheap. I have one with core.com. I pay 50 bucks a year, so less then ten bucks a month. For this I get email and a few MB of webspace. I can use any third party email software that I am aware of. There is also a web email interface. It has pretty good spam controls. Not much gets through that I don't want. Although, to be honest I have never used it for my PBW emails so I don't know for sure it won't block those. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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You want good POP3, you got to pay.

I've kept my current Hotmail for three or four years now. And I have no reason to drop it yet.

I ahve another hotmail account, started around the same time, that I almost never use. It gets no spam.

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Thanks for the info Geo, core.com may be exactly what I'm looking for. At any rate, going there taught me a new term for the day: "Personal email account". There are plenty of companies like this. I will shop around a bit.

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I use Juno for free Email.

They do a good job of filtering.
They only want you to see their sponsors ads.

Juno's free Internet connection is terrible for SEIV Play By WEB.
They bounced me. They claimed I used too much bandwidth.
They choked my service with so many ads and ad downloads that it would take about ten minutes of connection time before I got to the turn upload page. Then if my connection did not get bounced by this time, I could finally upload my turn.
So it took up to 20 minutes to do turn upload that should have taken about 2 minutes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif
Then they bounced me and tried to sell me their premium service. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

I use Access4Free for internet access now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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this is what I did after ATT Broadband switched to Comcast, I was tired of switching evey few years my main E-mail addy, so I went here www.ASPwebServer.com started up my own domain, I think I spent $50 for 2 years, I get 5 ot 10 e-maill accounts for that, more than I will ever use. You can access it via the web or POP3. Now I have 1 e-mail that as long as I kep the web pages, I wont have to change it, though I still use my Hotmail for those times I think it might be sold.

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Take a look at this, lots of people around here are using it of late.

http://mail.zappo.com/

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the email im using right now - www.graffiti.net . almost 100% spam proof (about 4 spams for the past year-and-a-half). they're starting to charge money for full service tho, but still you get 1mb of completely spam free mail.
My $.02

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You can get a free pop3 account with www.softhome.net - it has a few restrictions buyt the fact that it's pop3 should get past your firewall problems.

It's a while since I've been there but I believe www.f*ckmicrosoft.com (be creative with the asterisk) do some free accounts of some kind.

Personally i use www.eudoramail.com - I find it meets my needs pretty well.

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I am myself using Gawab from now, 15 mb available and no spam in your inbox. (No pop3 access though, so I will keep my yahoo.fr email as long as this service is provided) Of course, my broswer is protected by an anti pop-up and an AdBlock, so I don't really mind the ads on the webmail. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
www.gawab.com

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">10 dollars a month for email and a few MB of web space? That is extremely expensive there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif You can get gigabytes of web space for 10 dollars a month... with email software on it and ready to work, of course.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am sure there is Fyron. I was just giving that as a suggestion. There are probably many cheaper. Finding a cheaper place isn't something I am looking for. The reason I am hanging on to it is to keep the same email address.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How does Juno's 'free' service work? I've found they have a local access number in town and I'm curious if it's worth signing up as a 'backup' access for when my reguar ISP has problems. Is it adware that actually downloads ads onto your local computer?? Or do they just force you to use a certain homepage with ads on it?

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Juno has it's own mailbox thingy and browser.
I did use IE with their internet service.

They do download ads to your computer.

There ula for free internet also states they may use your computational time. They want you computer to stay up and running and be available.

Well, my computer was not near the phone jack and I was not leaving the damn wire in plain view. I was also not leaving the computer on. So maybe that is another reason they dropped me.

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