The best webmail services

Couple of things:

1) factual error: you state gmail is 'ad free' - it *isn't*. Sure the ads aren't as horrible as Yahoo, but it's still heavily ad-supported in the left-hand side. Have a look.

2) Gmail has a great interface, but the contact management features are extremely limited. Also, you can't sync your contact. Also, it frequently much through large attachment without letting your know delivery failed. Also, it won't let you check multiple at the same time. You have to logoff, log back in and so on.

Finally, I use gmail for your domain professionally over 8 domains and 150 accounts and I can tell you, it's not the technical nirvana you described. For a quick personal account, it's the best in town, but for SMB, it leaves a lot to be desired.

 

I don't know but i prefer Y!mail over gmail.

Y!mail has a tabbed viewer wich lacks on gmail. You can start to compose a mail, and if u're in the middle of the composition, you can refer to another mail without closint it.

You can drag and drop a msg anywhere in the interface.

As for the filters you still need to go to the old version of the mail service, but as stated by the good people inn Y!mail they're working on it:
"We're still tweaking the Yahoo! Mail Beta Filters option. Temporarily you'll need to access it through the original Yahoo! Mail interface. But, rest assured, any changes made will take effect once you've reloaded the Yahoo! Mail Beta."

It lacks the checkboxes in each message so you can delete without seeing it. As said by "randosome". This is, in my opinion, a minor drawback.

The only complain that I have is that it takes a long time to load and to attach files and the annoying "flash ads".

With all this being said, I think Y!mail way better in terms of organization and interface (a matter of personal taste)

Anyway the're BOTH in BETA versions...

 

I've been using GMail as my primary account since the day I got into the beta (way back when ). I have tried the new Yahoo! Mail — it was neat, but I prefer GMail's simpler interface — and Windows Live Mail — I just didn't like the interface at all — and came to the conclusion that I should stick with GMail.

Hushmail is cool, except that, as mentioned in the article, it hasn't been properly updated to keep up with the times. I'd love to use it if it were.

I must confess that I don't understand why having a lot of links is a problem.

 

Or for something just a bit different: http://www.goowy.com/

Has really nice calendar integration and stuff like that.

 

GMail also has a "Check for new mail" button. It's in the inbox there, labelled "Refresh". But considering it updates on its own every minute (Or so), that's really not necessary. GMail's web interface is about as fast as IMAP at reporting new mail.

Oh, and while I do agree that tabs for GMail would be great, that little blue arrow icon in the corner of each message (Including creating new messages or replying to a message) will "Promote" the current view to a new window, so you can use your browser's tabs to hold multiple messages open for reference.

 

I know the name is probably synonymous with hatred, but what about AOL Web Mail? Since the drop of the EU Access business, and the focus switch to Web Content, they have cleaned up the webmail service quite a bit.

2GB of storage, free address, IMAP access. It has full integration with AIM/Address Book, and AOL Calendar. It also supposrts Rich Text/HTML editing in mail. Spam controls are constantly improving on it as well. Only 1 banner ad at the top of mailbox, ala the new Windows Live Beta, and 1 curtain ad to the side of letter windows.


Just would have been nice to see another of the big players, as it has just as many users as Y!Mail.

 

nice to have a review like this on,i just use hotmail ( i no its noobie ) i might try this thanks bit-tech great review (y)

 

G mail vs hotmail

I do like Gmail tho I have not used it much.
I am not so sure about the chat thing.

Hotmail has become very annoying. It has
some strange instructions for blocking.
Infact it does not block at all. You still get
the mails coming through.

Too much spam and even when you tell
*it* this is spam, sure as eggs is eggs
the same emails appear from the same
domains.

Wish it was like AOL where you can
customise your email account.

 

Hi Amber. Welcome
to the forums. Just
a friendly word of
advice - you don't
need to put line
breaks in your
posts - the
browser does it
automatically!!

 

Hmmm my first webmail was rocketmail (i think it was called) which as far as I remember was bought by yahoo.. never used it since.

Now I have a hotmail which is used for giving to sites I don't trust (no bit-tech is not one of them )

For laughs I tried the Live thingy with my account but I can't seem to log in to the Live Mail system

 

Javascript with XML: "Asynchronous Javascript And XML"

Java and javascript couldn't be more different from each other. And don't attempt to flame telling me that it uses java too. While it can use java, it isn't what AJAX mixes.

Other than that, I like gmail, although the interface is bothersome, and even the AJAX is implemented awkwardly IMO. I use it primarily set as POP3 into ThunderBird unless I'm not at my computer.

 

Who's the fool who decided to write that europeans cant have @gmail.com adresses? That's plain BS! I've got a gmail adress, and I live in europe.. >_>

 

@Jokkocze: New users in the UK can't have direct gmail.com addresses (even though they apparantly work), not sure how it extends across europe.

When did you sign up?

 

If you had signed up to Google Mail before the EU trademark disputes you will have been issued with a gmail.com address, if you sign up now you'll be issued a googlemail.com address.

 

Yeah....Gmail is great!!!!!!!!!

 

Yeah, this is true. I signed up after the feud, and mine is [xxx]@googlemail.com address. However, mail sent to [xxx]@gmail.com will hit my inbox just fine, and that is the address I give everyone (i.e. the gmail one). I also love the fact that gmail ignores '.' characters in email addresses, so a.b.c.smith@gmail.com and abc.smith@googlemail.com (plus all other combinations) go to abcsmith@gmail.com. It's just a nice feature so you can format your email address as you like, and it guarantees that no-one else has an email address which differs only by the addition or removal of a '.', which saves a lot of misdirected emails (used to be a real problem with my hotmail account).