Best E-Mail Providers?
 

My boyfriend and I want to have a joint e-mail account so that we can use it for our "wedding" stuff. We were going to use Yahoo but since the "new" Yahoo wants you to verify your age w/your credit card information, we don't feel comfortable with that and are trying to find a good and free e-mail service. Any suggestions?

Oh, no Hotmail either, it takes to long to load up on both of our computers :p

-Kayla

Netzero maybe? You can both check it from the web.

I just set up an extra yahoo account & it didn't require a credit card...you just have to read the small print where it says "continue w/out giving your credit card information" or something like that...

I've also got a http://www.gmail.com account & if you know someone w/ invites I'd suggest using it! Or you could use http://www.mail.com/ its also free!

I use yahoo and if you sign up under the free account you now get 10mb of storage and it did not ask me for a credit card either..

I love my gmail account (thanks again -- you know who you are).

i just wish there was a way to get online without having a provider to just check yahoo mail. i have AOL and i am getting sick of t he fee's when i just want to log onto to just check email on yahoo

You know, there are other fee schedules available from them. You can get as few as 2 hours a month, I think. It might be worth calling about. If you throw a fit and threaten to leave, they come out of the woodwork with other price packages just to keep you as a customer... I've even gotten a free month from them just for not cancelling. From what I understand, the cancellation dept. has "incentives" they can use to make "saves."

It's kind of like Dell. If you call in with a customer service problem, the rep. can give you up to $150 worth of products from Dell. If you order a computer from them, call in the 1st 30 days threatening to send it back and the special dept. (that's set up just to try and keep you from doing a return) is authorized to give you more than that. -- Useless info from a former Dell employee (myself)

I heard google is starting a new one that is supposed to be pretty sweet. I haven't really checked it out yet though.

It's quite simply the best I've ever seen. Almost unbelievable that it's free. I get 1000MB of storage/message archival. The only ads are "relevant text" ads. When you read a message, they appear off to the right of the message. For example, I had a message with the word "fraternity" in it. Off to the side I had ads from "RushATO" and other fraternity-related advertising.

I use Fastmail (www.fastmail.com) and I have been very pleased with it. There is no spamming like with hotmail and yahoo accounts and come to think of it I have not even noticed any advertisements. I'm sure there are some somewhere since it's free, but it's nothing noticeable.

I've had yahoo mail for a while and am really a big fan of it.

However, haven't been using it much lately, spend more time checking my two work email accounts.

Definitely use gmail, nothing compares. I don't even notice the ads. It's fast, easy to get used to, and everyone has invites now it seems.

Except that everyone so far is failing to mention that in order to get a Gmail account, you have to be invited by someone else or have Google's powers that be think you're special. Right now, you can sign up to be notified when Gmail goes public, but it's not open to the internet masses right now. It is a terrific program and I'm not even getting ads on all my messages.

More at http://www.gmail.com and if you want a code, try Gmail Swap

Ive got SBC DSL so I have a free e-mail account with them. I still use my hotmail cause everyone has that one and I hate to constantly change e-mails on everyone. Hotmail sucks though with all the dang junk.....

I hear Yahoo is good. I have a free account there too so I can me a member of some yahoo groups.

Well, in another thread I said that I'd invite anyone who wanted to be invited. Others have said the same thing. Google is letting users give out tons of invites right now, so it's not hard to get one.

Okay, so I have a g-mail account... but I don't seem to be generating any invites. Do you have to specifically request them, or am I missing something?

How long have you had yours? I've had mine about 3 days and am still waiting for these invites.

I'm not really worried though. I've got mine (thanks again!)

From what I understand its all about how much email you send (& possibly receive) from the gmail account before you'll generate invites!

aha.... yes, I haven't used the account much yet, so that could be why.

Thanks!

I am fomrer AOL employee too and i think i am going to try to get saves to get me 2 free months by trying to quit. I know there tactives i use tow ork in billing......

i just g ot a dell at chrismtas time and i got the free 6 months a nd so it ends onthe 28th i just dont like $23 a month so i might either quiet them or reduce down to the other price plans. has anyone tried People PC?

It took me about a week to get my invites. I didn't even notice that I had them. They were a red link up on the top of the page. Not too big, no email telling me I had them or anything.

Yahoo has the best email service!

I've used everything, and Gmail is definitely the best so far.

And the invites will be on the top of the page under the search bar in red.

Definitely.

I love how it does conversations. I'm the recorder for my alum chapter and just sent out an email asking everyone to update their bio with me. I've started getting mails back and it saves them all under one heading. I open it and it has little file tabs for each message (or I can just open 'em all up).

It makes hotmail look silly.

My favorite thing is how it has labels rather than folders - because I have so many emails that go under both "Gamma Phi" and "Amanda" or "Bills" and "Family" or whatever, it's nice to be able to track. :)

I love that part of Gmail...and also how I have 1000MB of space! :eek:

Woo hoo!

This is great since my yahoo hates me after it upgraded and my school account has been overtaken by spammers.

Yep. I just think it's so freaking smooth compared to everything else out there. It literally blows everyone else away in terms of ease of use and just sheer ability to organize your stuff.

I probably sent that last email out to 80+ people. Now if I get 80+ replies, they'll all be organized all nice and neat and under one heading.

I need to have the power of invites though. Only then will I be :cool: