Which Webmail Service Do You Use?

worm eater asks: "I've been hosting my email with my web site host for some time, although a while back I used commercial services such as Yahoo! and Hotmail. I liked Yahoo!, but was disappointed to hear that they stopped offering free POP3 access. So I'm looking for a good, free webmail host for a friend of mine that supports POP3 -- because sometimes you don't want to have to deal with a web interface, no matter how well designed. And it's nice to be able to store messages indefinitely. What do you recommend?" This was last asked two years ago, but webmail is more prevalent now than it was then, so maybe better options are available. Readers interested in security with their webmail might find this discussion interesting, as well.

Comments

Simple: Pay for it

[camilita]

Its not that expensive. You can get a decent hosting for 5 bucks a month just for POP3 mail. Or for 10 bucks with IMAP. I have just settled (after trying jumpline, vservers and others over the years) with dreamhost.com, just because of webmail and specially IMAP, which many hosts tend to avoid.

This is a personal opinion. Pick another host if you like, but pay for one. Much better than free.

Re:How about IMAP and web mail for free?

[Malcolm Scott]

The fact that IMAP stores mail in folders on the server is a huge advantage. It means it's easy to read and organise your e-mail from different locations - desktop, laptop, webmail from some else's box - and you can get your present and past e-mail from anywhere.