The other day I tried to email a friend of mine. It was just one of those questionaires that people forward to their friends, so it wasn’t very important, fortunately. Just as well, because my email bounced back. My guess is that my friend hadn’t logged on for a while and his account had been deleted. That sort of thing is really annoying, so I thought I’d suggest a couple of alternatives. Not to my friend. He wouldn’t listen, but I’m going to post them here instead.
If you want a web based email account, Icerocket is a nice choice. You get 100 mb of storage and on the Icerocket site, there’s a blog search engine. I like Icerocket, and I can really recommend it.
Fastmail.fm is another great email provider. You can use it as a web based email account, but if you like, you can also use the imap function. That means you can check your email in your mail program (Eudora, Mail etc). The downside is that you don’t get smtp, so you’ll need to go to the website to send emails. There’s also relatively little storage included (10 mb). However, there are several other levels to choose between, if you want to pay. One level (member) means a one time payment only, and there won’t be any ads/taglines at the bottom of the email. You also get smtp, and a bit more storage (16 mb).
The higher levels involve paying a certain sum of money every year. With those you get more storage and pop access.
There’s a bit of difference between pop and imap and if you want to set up your email program to receive your emails you’ll need to specify imap, not pop.
Imap means that you get the emails in your mail program, but they also remain on the server, which means you will have to go to website to delete emails, and it can eat up your storage quickly.