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E-mail Freebies These services are all totally free and, in some cases, are
supported by advertising. Even if you already have an E-mail account
on your home computer, a Web-based E-mail account can be very handy
for corresponding when you're on the road. In this section, we also
take a look at free E-mail software, notable free E-mail
newsletters, specialized free E-mail services and more. |
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- BurntMail
Here's a promising free Web-based E-mail service that offers
a lot of nice features such as spam protection, stationery,
POP3 support and E-mail forwarding. A big plus to this
service is that it doesn't plaster ads on your E-mails,
unlike many services of this type.
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Yahoo!
Mail
One of the top free Web-based E-mail services, Yahoo! Mail
offers a powerful package that gives you four megabytes of
storage space, along with nifty features such as spam
filtering. We particularly like the Norton Antivirus
feature, which automatically scans incoming E-mail
attachments. Yahoo! Mail also lets you password-protect
outgoing E-mails.
- Note: In March 2002, Yahoo!
Mail announced that it will no longer provide free
POP3 access or free E-mail forwarding services.
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TheFreeSite.com
E-mail
TheFreeSite.com offers its own free E-mail service. This
service gives you six megabytes of space for your messages
and attachments. There's a handy filtering feature to let
you sort your mail into different folders and block spam,
and the service can be configured to allow you to read
your POP mail, as well. Requires
Internet Explorer or Netscape, version 4 or more recent.
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Hotmail
Owned by Microsoft,
Hotmail is the largest free Web-based E-mail provider,
with over 110 million registered users. Hotmail offers
mail filtering that allows you to direct mail into folders
and also features a spell checker and a signature option,
as well as the ability to customize the layout. You can
add up to 20 recipients per message, as well as send
attachments. Hotmail also offers its users the option of
scanning attachments for viruses.
- Signing up for Hotmail's free
service is confusing and cumbersome these days. You
must deal with strong pitches for Hotmail's
commercial, for-pay service, as well as page after
page of ads that pester you to sign up for various
mailing lists.
- Note: In June 2002, Hotmail
announced that it would no longer provide free POP3
access.
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AmExMail
(AmExMail ceased operations in May
2002). This is a competent free Web-based E-mail
service. With AmExMail, you can have a permanent E-mail
address, so if you move, change ISPs or switch jobs,
you'll always get your mail. AmExMail also offers message
forwarding, as well as junk mail blocking, filters and
mail collection from multiple accounts.
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Universal
Post Office
(Note: the free E-mail service here
has been suspended). Here's a versatile E-mail
service that features Web-based, POP and WAP E-mail access
and five megs of storage. Universal Post Office also
offers access to external E-mail via IMAP and POP. Here,
you also get a vanity E-mail address, with over 120
domains to choose from.
MailBR This free service from
Brazil offers POP3 support and it supports attachments. You also
get multiple domains and the option to create folders.
- Talk21
This is a major, free,
speedy Web-based E-mail, offered by British Telecommunications.
You may send up to three attachments per message (for a maximum
file size of one megabyte). Your address here will be YourName@talk21.com.
- Postmaster
This British site
bills itself as Europe's first free E-mail service. Postmaster
offers features such as file attachment capabilities and a
personal address book. No software or special configuration is
need to use this service.
- 163-Net
This is a
Chinese-language free E-mail provider.
- Post.Cz
Here's a reliable
E-mail service from the Czech Republic that offers Web-based
E-mail, as well as POP E-mail.
- Mail.EE
This is a free E-mail
service from Estonia (and is intended only for Estonian users.)
- MultiMania
This is a French
service that offers free POP E-mail. (Formerly known as MyGale.com).
- CaraMail
Another free E-mail
service from France.
- Global Message
Exchange
Here's a free E-mail service from
Germany. Here, you may compose your messages off-line. They have a
POP and a SMTP server, so you can use your favorite E-mail program
to handle all your E-mail. (No spam
allowed).
- Freemail
This is a free
Web-based and POP3-based nonprofit E-mail service from Hungary.
- Free Mail
(from the Netherlands)
FreeMail is een
gratis e-mail adres op Internet. Het is gebaseerd op het principe
dat de toegankelijkheid eenvoudig moet zijn en mogelijk gemaakt
moet worden voor elke computer met een aansluiting op het World
Wide Web.
- Pinoymail
A free Web-based
E-mail service from the Philippines. Your E-mail address here will
be yourname@pinoymail.com.
- CODEC
Free E-mail service from
Romania. Web-based and easy to use. You get a choice of 3 domains.
- Pobox
This is a free E-mail
service from Slovakia. They offer many features, including address
books, directories, message filtering, POP3 mail, forwarding,
signatures and autoresponders.
- MixMail
This is a free
advertiser-supported E-mail service for Spanish speakers. Users
may choose a permanent E-mail address at one domain (user_name@mixmail.com) that will exist as long as they wish.
MixMail accounts will forward and retrieve E-mail messages from
multiple POPs to one location. MixMail also features personalized
address books and both standard and HTML-coded text.
- MemoToMe.com
Here's a useful
free reminder service that lets you easily specify one-time or
recurring events and automatically sends you a reminder about them
via E-mail or a wireless device.
- Free-Minder.com
Do you need a
helping hand in getting your day organized? This helpful free
reminder service sends you E-mail that you can customize to remind
you of everything from birthdays to wedding anniversaries to
business meetings.
- Domain Watch
Are you worried
about forgetting to renew your site's domain? Sign up with this
free service and you'll get repeated notifications that remind you
to renew your domain registration as the expiration date
approaches.
- LottoBot
This is a helpful free
reminder service if you play the lotto regularly (particularly if
you're too busy to have time to check your tickets.) LottoBot will
automatically check your lotto tickets for you and send you an
immediate E-mail notification of your results for the latest draw.
LottoBot sends personal lotto results for all the U.S. state
lottos and the biggies like Powerball, Big Game, etc. LottoBot also offers results for games in
Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand.
- The
Emergency E-mail Network
Sign up with this
unique free service to receive notification via E-mail of natural
disasters or other emergencies in your area. To get started,
select your state and county from the lists provided and follow
the instructions. (U.S. only).
- EZ-Reminders.com
This free
reminder service can help organize your life. You can configure it
to automatically E-mail you when important dates and events roll
around. It's handy for remembering birthdays, anniversaries,
meetings, doctor appointments, auto maintenance, etc.
- TVEyes.com
A fascinating free
service that sends you an E-mail alert any time a topic or keyword
that you specify is mentioned on TV. Many uses: from following the
latest news on your fave celebrity to keeping up with anything
that's mentioned on the air about your investments. TVEyes.com
monitors broadcasts in real time and "watches TV for you when
you're not able to."
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