Some Well Known Free Email Service Providers
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META: With the number of free email services out there all offering something slightly different, it’s up to you to select the right one that will be good for you.
The Internet has a plethora of free email service providers and with tough competition among them; they vie to provide the best services to users by including better features on a constant basis. You will be surprised at the amount that you can get for free from a prompt interface, mail filter facilities and many other useful features at no added cost. You may even be tempted to have more than one free email account that you could assign to various categories of mails that you receive.
Some of the top ten email service providers include –
Gmail from Google, which offers almost unlimited storage and an efficient interface that allows you to check your mails effortlessly. Gmail can be accessed from any kind of email programme as long as you have POP and IMAP sofware. When you are reading or sending an email, the advertisements can be seen without the emails causing a hindrance.
Yahoo Mail also offers unlimited storage besides which it provides RSS news feeds and instant messaging. A rich HTML editor which is available for writing emails, is offered by Yahoo Mail Classic. This is another servce from Yahoo which offers good spam protection features.
AIM Mail from AOL offers its free services with limitless storage, a brilliant interface and an excellent Spam protection. Features such as smart folders and labels are sadly not offered but it does offer standard POP and IMAP access.
FastMail offers some good things and some of which are not so good, so let’s begin with the good things; an astral web interface, IMAP access and some other useful features. The down side of this service, it offers limited storage of 2GB and not a very good spam filter.
GMX Mail is another consistent free email service that offers a rich interface along with POP and IMAP access, a good Spam filter, protection against viruses and a 5GB of storage. But proper organizing of mails is a bit lacking here.
Inbox.com provides its clients 5GB of online storage and an efficient web mail access along with POP for your email programme. However, improvement for use of organising mails is really required and it does not support IMAP accessibility.
A user-friendly interface, total security and 5GB of storage is offered free with Windows Live Hotmail email services. On the down side getting mail to go past the folder level is non-existant and it does not give you POP and IMAP access. Some improvement to the spam filter available would be great.
Various features such as, organising mail with labels and search, good spam filter, some short cuts are offered by Zenbe Personal, although IMPA access is only available for the inbox.
Despite offering a free email service, unlimited storage, background images and POP access, Zapak Mail is not the most efficient mail service.
Gawab.Another free email service is offered by com. It also offers 10GB of online storage and access to POP and IMAP software. Labels, nor complete mail search facility are however offered.
If you are new to the Internet and do not know which email service providers are good as well as reliable, this list of free email service providers would help you select one for your free email account. You could choose to have one or more free email accounts as suits your requirement. They will also provide you with a free email address.
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