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Free
E-mail Services
In this section, We take a look at the best
general-purpose free E-mail services on the Web.
These services are all totally free and are usually
supported by advertising. Even if you already have
an E-mail account on your home computer, a Web-based
E-mail account can be very handy for corresponding
when you're on the road. |
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Free-Mails.com
Here, you can get a free, reliable E-mail
account for either personal or business use.
Unlike a lot of services of this kind, the
signup process here is quick and easy. Free-Mails.com
currently offers POP3 E-mail; Web-based E-mail
accounts will be offered soon, as well.
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WebMail4free.com
This handy free service lets you easily check
and read your POP E-mail messages via the Web
from any computer. It's handy if you're on the
road and don't have access to your computer.
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Walla
This ad-supported free E-mail service offers you
a hefty 1 gigabyte of storage, as well as spam
control and anti-virus protection. Note: you
must be 13 or older to use this service.
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Smileymail.co.uk
Here's a good, basic free E-mail service that
offers 7 megs of storage space. Smileymail.co.uk
features a handy address book and gives you the
ability to send and receive attachments.
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TheFreeSite.com E-mail
TheFreeSite.com offers its free E-mail service.
This service gives you 6 megabytes of space for
your messages and attachments. There's a handy
filtering feature to let you sort your mail into
different folders and block spam, and the
service can be configured to allow you to read
your POP mail, as well.
Requires Internet Explorer or Netscape, version
4 or more recent.
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Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail, currently the Net's most popular
free Web-based E-mail service, offers a powerful
package that includes such nifty features as
spam filtering and password protection for
outgoing E-mails. We particularly like the
Norton Antivirus feature, which automatically
scans incoming E-mail attachments.
- Note: On Nov. 15,
2004, Yahoo! Mail increased the amount of
space available with its free accounts from
100 megabytes to 250 megabytes (a decision
likely prompted by rival Google's plans to
offer 1 gigabyte of space with its upcoming
Gmail E-mail service).
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BurntMail
(Note: BurntMail ended the
free version of its E-mail service on March 1,
2004, but a 30-day free trial is still
available). Here's a superb Web-based
E-mail service that offers a lot of nice
features such as spam protection, stationery,
POP3 support and E-mail forwarding. A big plus
to this service is that it doesn't plaster ads
on your E-mails.
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Hotmail
Owned by
Microsoft, Hotmail is the Net's second
largest free Web-based E-mail provider, with
over 170 million users. Hotmail offers mail
filtering that allows you to direct mail into
folders and also features a spell checker and a
signature option, as well as the ability to
customize the layout. You can add up to 20
recipients per message, as well as send
attachments of up to 10 megs. Hotmail also
offers its users the option of scanning E-mails
and attachments for viruses.
- Hotmail now offers
250 megs of storage space to users in the
U.S. and Puerto Rico.
- Signing up for
Hotmail's free service is confusing and
cumbersome these days. You must deal with
strong pitches for Hotmail's commercial,
for-pay service, as well as page after page
of ads that pester you to sign up for
various mailing lists.
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