Hotmail replacement?

[BKColeman]

Anyone know of a good, free web-based email service? Hotmail has gotten on my nerves for a while but now they are doing away with the POP mail retrieval option. That is the main reason I use it. I am a consultant so I'm usually on site, so I have it set to check my home email and my company email.

Anyone know of any alternatives that work any better?

--Brad

 

[Inspector507]

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.compuserve.com/gateway/webmail/default.asp>http://www.compuserve.com/gateway/webmail/default.asp</A>

 

[gws]

yahoo mail has pop mail retreival now

 

[Inspector507]

Yahoo will be discontinuing that feature soon.

 

[Gatorboy]

If you are interested in POP email, why are you concerned with it being Web-based?

 

[BKColeman]

<font color=blue>If you are interested in POP email, why are you concerned with it being Web-based? </font color=blue>

Because I don't want to have to setup 4 different pop accounts every time I go to a different client site. Plus some clients use odd email software. It is just much easier to manage them all through one web-based account.

--Brad

 

[gws]

Inspector, Where did you hear yahoo was getting rid of pop mail? I know they switched to pay service for the POP from yahoo email. But pop to yahoo keeps the people on their site.

 

[MikePA]

My personal ISP offers web based email retrieval which allows me to read my personal email wherever I have access to the Internet. Does your home email offer web based retrieval?

At work, I can set things up to auto-forward all emails sent to my work email address to my personal email address. So, there's no need to set up POP or email software. Please note: I do not auto forward my work email to my personal email since doing so would violate serveral workplace policies and compromise security. Something to consider, depending who your clients are.

 

[Inspector507]

Gary,
I may have been confusing "paying for it" versus them dropping it.

 

[BKColeman]

Mike,
I can access my home email through my ISPs page, and I can access my consulting company's email in a similar manner. But that takes too long to login and out of 4 separate accounts (1 at home for me, 1 for my wife, 2 at work for different reasons). I also usually have an email address at the client's site but, typically, I don't care to check it when I'm not there.

Right now I can go to Hotmail and click POP Mail and check all 4 at once. I do this 10 times a day probably, maybe more (on my way to check in on TBN /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif). Now they're moving that feature to the pay version only. I'm not opposed to paying for a good service, but Hotmail is so overloaded with spam, I don't think it is worth the money.

Plus, I was a member of Photopoint since the beginning. When they decide to switch to a pay site, I gladly ponied up the money. A few weeks later, they shut down without warning and without a refund. I had over 600 pictures up there; with untold number of hours spent arranging them into albums and adding captions and such. Now I'm a little shy of sites switching from free to pay.

I guess the days of cool free stuff on the Internet are almost gone.

--Brad