Advice wanted on free email account please

[Guest mcwarre]

Right,

I have had enough of Orange messing me about with their email problems.

What I am after is an email account that is (in order of preference):

100% reliable (or close to)

Virus free

Access via phone (Pocket Outlook), Web & Outlook

Spam free (or close)

Free!

Any suggestions or experiences welcome...

Over to you :D

[Guest Maverick]

Hotmail :-) ... Since u r a Plus member ;-)

[Guest mcwarre]

Jeez,

Hotmail is even worse than O for junk! :wink:

Anymore for anymore????

[Guest bigmak]

www.gmx.net. but they're German. you can start the account there (The vocabulary is almost the same in German and English) and then use it as pop3 account. works well for me (as I speak German too :wink: )

[Guest squall]

the new google service when its up and running - 1gb storage - free!

[Guest mcwarre]

www.gmx.net. but they're German. you can start the account there (The vocabulary is almost the same in German and English) and then use it as pop3 account. works well for me (as I speak German too  :wink: )

Danke :wink:

[Guest Maverick]

Jeez,

Hotmail is even worse than O for junk! :wink:

Anymore for anymore????

U dont have to donwload the Junk Mail folder :wink: . Honestly, I havent seen a single junk mail in my inbox for a long time.

[Guest Coucou]

google gmail involves serious invasion of privacy though. Prob no more than a company account but a lot more than I'd like for a private account

[Guest zeta101]

yeah gmail apparently scans your emails content and uses that to direct "personlised" advertising towards your email. However i was reading they might be stopped from doing this as its against some privacy laws etc

[Guest mcwarre]

GMail is definately against the European Data Protection Act and an American Senator is trying to get it blocked as well methinks. :D ;)

Maverick,

I get nothing but spam in my hotmail and have given up using it............

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Since the launch of the latest version of Hotmail i've not had a single spam shot in my inbox. Admittedly i've also never really used the account for email, however what i did get (10-15 a day) is now no more :D

[Guest nedge2k]

Im using ntlworld.com pretty damn good and pop3. Plus a handy little feature that tells you alot of things about your email:

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[Guest siu99spj]

Im using ntlworld.com pretty damn good and pop3. Plus a handy little feature that tells you alot of things about your email:

Thats just basic header info. Press alt+enter on any e-Mail in Outlook (xpress) and you'll get the same. MS just keep it hidden to avoid scaring people.

For E-Mail I personally use Yahoo! Its free, no ads and I set up for POP3 retrieval whilst it was free. Only problem is you can get spammed if you have an obvious name, but when you got something like mine, you get virtually none (Though they don't seem to good at stopping the ridiculous quantity of Bagle virus E-Mails I was getting).

But other than that, I've had four years of trouble-free use.

[Guest badboy4life]

I've got a freeserve email account, think it's free even if you don't use freeserve as your ISP. Touch-wood I've never recieved any Spam and you get web and pop access. I've been using it for about 6 years.

[Guest MECX]

By FAR the best email service is Fastmail www.fastmail.fm

No spam very reliable 10mb inbox ---No Pop3 only IMAP4--haddent used this before but its much better than POP3 anyway.

You can pay a one off fee and get more features (including pop3) and better email addresses as well.

:D

[Guest mcwarre]

Many thanks for all the advice :D ;)

I took the plunge and registered a domain name (£4 for 2 years) then e-mail (POP3 / Web / Outlook) with virus scanning and anti-spam for £6.99. The service is reliable and hopefully that is £11 well spent.

www.oneandone.co.uk if anyone is interested....