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Gmail's it

Authored by: Dano on Thursday, June 01 2006 @ 12:45 PM CDT

No "gonna burn out your retinas" advertising, very little
spam, fast, simple, and best of all...

ARCHIVING

Coolest invention related to e-mail yet. No deleting, no saving to folders (although you can if you want). Just use google search to find your e-mail messages. Works great.

What's the best free e-mail service?

Authored by: jsignal on Friday, June 02 2006 @ 01:51 PM CDT

I've used Yahoo! mail in the past, and it is very good. But I've been playing with Gmail this week. It's different, but better once you get used to it.

Also, I've found a way to use myname@mydomain.com with Gmail. I set up a forwarder on mydomain.com, for example, to forward my mail on to Gmail. Then in gmail, I can set the "from" on my outgoing mail. To all but the most astute, header-scrutinizing mail recipients it looks like I've got my own mail server.

The disadvantage to that, of course, is that if the mydomain.com server goes down, my e-mail is also down. It just adds another "hop" in the e-mail delivery process.

If Google for my domain wasn't invitation only, that extra step wouldn't be necessary.

It looks like Gmail is the winner.

What's the best free e-mail service?

Authored by: savantelite on Friday, June 02 2006 @ 03:43 PM CDT

The only reason you use hotmail, is because you have never had another email, or you use msn messenger. Otherwise I can not think of a bigger time waister then using hotmail. Ok maybe one time waister, but I enjoy that.

What's the best free e-mail service?

Authored by: navajoboy on Thursday, June 29 2006 @ 12:41 PM CDT

Rocketmail is the sh**z!

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What's the best free e-mail service?

Authored by: jsignal on Saturday, August 26 2006 @ 10:28 AM CDT

I've been using gmail for a while now. I'm not sure I like it as much as the old unlimited quota IMAP account I had at BTInet. It's tougher to sort messages in Gmail. For example, in Thunderbird you can choose to sort by "conversation" or by date, message size, subject, etc. Gmail seems to force the "conversation" order.

Also, Gmail has been having problems with its SMTP servers showing up on Spam blacklists. Many messages I send aren't received.

-Jason