[OT] I need Email

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Loser:
I use Hotmail, pull it into Outlook Express (no web adds), and have the filter set to 'Enhanced'.

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 ]

[geoschmo]

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.

[Loser]

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.

[Arkcon]

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.

[Wardad]

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.
Then they bounced me and tried to sell me their premium service.

I use Access4Free for internet access now.

[Narrew]

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.

[Thermodyne]

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

http://mail.zappo.com/