Free Email Service Providers
META: With the number of free email services out there all offering something slightly different, it’s up to you to select the right one that will be good for you.
The Internet has a plethora of free email service providers and with tough competition among them; they vie to provide the best services to users by including better features on a constant basis. You will be surprised at the amount that you can get for free from a prompt interface, mail filter facilities and many other useful features at no added cost. You may even be tempted to have more than one free email account that you could assign to various categories of mails that you receive.
Some of the top ten email service providers include –
Gmail from Google, which offers almost unlimited storage and an efficient interface that allows you to check your mails effortlessly. The POP and IMAP software allow gmail to be accessed from any kind of email programme. When you are reading or sending an email, the advertisements can be seen without the emails causing a hindrance.
Yahoo Mail also offers unlimited storage besides which it provides RSS news feeds and instant messaging. Yahoo also has another service known as the Yahoo Mail Classic, which offers a fairly good Spam protection feature while a rich HTML editor is also available for writing emails.
Free services with limitless storage is offered by AIM mail from AOL which also has a fantastic interface and excellent spam protection. Features such as smart folders and labels are sadly not offered but it does offer standard POP and IMAP access.
FastMail offers some good things and some of which are not so good, so let’s begin with the good things; an astral web interface, IMAP access and some other useful features. The down side of this service, it offers limited storage of 2GB and not a very good spam filter.
GMX Mail is another consistent free email service that offers a rich interface along with POP and IMAP access, a good Spam filter, protection against viruses and a 5GB of storage. The organising of mails is however, needed here.
Inbox.com provides its clients 5GB of online storage and an efficient web mail access along with POP for your email programme. IMAP accessibility however, is not supported and some improvement is needed in relation to the organising of mails.
Windows Live Hotmail offers its free email services with 5GB of storage, a user-friendly interface and total security. However it does not give you POP and IMAP access and organising of mails fails to go past the folder level. The spam filter available could also do with some improvement.
Various features such as, organising mail with labels and search, good spam filter, some short cuts are offered by Zenbe Personal, although IMPA access is only available for the inbox.
Zapak Mail, is not the most efficient mail service around, despite offering unlimited storage, POP access, free email service and a few background images.
Gawab.com is a fast and reliable free email service that offers its users 10GB of online storage along with POP and IMAP access. A complete mail facility along with no offer of labels is available either.
If you are new to the Internet and do not know which email service providers are good as well as reliable, this list of free email service providers would help you select one for your free email account. You could choose to have one or more free email accounts as suits your requirement. They will also provide you with a free email address.
