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World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google

Posted by timothy on from the fancy-that dept.

xPertCodert writes "According to this article, the world's first 1GB web mail is not going to be Google, but from the largest Israeli web portal. With 30Mb per attachment, it seems to be quite useful as well. Looks like an idea of extra-large e-mail storage is becoming really hot these days."

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  1. Attachments? by InvaderXimian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why a 30MB attachment limit? They could just say 50TB attachment limit and nothing would really be changed since most mail servers have a 5MB attachment limit, at most. Very few of them have a bigger limit.

  2. How can web portals afford this? by KingOfBLASH · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1 GB is a lot of information, and it has to cost a decent chunk of money to allocate that much storage for every user, and to pay for bandwidth for 30MB attachments, and for the rack space and electricity. How are web portals like google making back the cost of 1GB email?

  3. So what? by Seoulstriker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everyone with a Gmail account, including myself, knows that email storage space is not the only part of an effective email system. The Gmail interface is so simplified, efficient, and intuitive, that there will probably not be anything coming out that can compete with it. (ask people who both have Gmail and Spymac and see what they think)

    Not only that, but the Israeli service requires money whereas Gmail is free. I am confident that Gmail will be the only truly successful free gigabyte email service.

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    1. Re:So what? by glinden · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Exactly right. GMail asks and answers the question, "What e-mail client would you build if you never had to delete any of your old e-mail?"

      GMail is designed to organize your information for easy access later. Messages are threaded, part of a conversation on a topic. Searching your mail is emphasized. And, because it's web-based, you can access you mail and any information in your mail from any computer.

      The 1G of storage is just a means to the end.

  4. Re:Is this a joke submission? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, I sent a note to the editor about that before the posting went live, but no correction on it as yet. *shrug* Welcome to Slashdot.

  5. Re:Is this a joke submission? by bfg9000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can any of you guys get your Spymac mail accounts to work? I can't -- I've been assuming it's been announced, but not functional yet.

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  6. whats the big deal? by blanks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    3 years ago I had over 1200 megs of emails, spam, and attachments through my email provider sitting on their server. They never cared, they told me that as long as they have the free space, and that I dont go over 2000 megs, I would be fine. This wasnt a small provider too, it was a company owned by dsl.com.

    Is the big difference here the fact that its offered as a 1000 megs of space? Im sure many providers dont monitor disk usage for email if you go through small isp's, Ive never had a problem with them.

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  7. Great, a new web-based hard drive for me... by Professr3 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ok, so how long will it take before someone registers 100 accounts or so, writes a program to break their files into chunks, and stores them as email attachments? It would take me about 2 hours to write a file manager that stores large stuff like my star trek collection or backups on their mail servers...

    When in doubt, mod +1 insightful and pray...

    1. Re:Great, a new web-based hard drive for me... by russx2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Ok, so how long will it take before someone registers 100 accounts or so, writes a program to break their files into chunks, and stores them as email attachments? It would take me about 2 hours to write a file manager that stores large stuff like my star trek collection or backups on their mail servers...

      ... about the same amount of time it'd take Google to implement detection for this sort of behaviour. They're not exactly idiots over at Google and I'm sure they've thought about this. Should be especially easy to detect as well (lots of multiple attachments the same size, lack of normal activity etc.).

      It's a pretty risky endeavour anyway (for backups that is) as you're running the risk everyday of being caught and having your accounts wiped. Not exactly a bullet proof backup solution is it?

  8. Size is not all that matters by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Interesting
    GMail not only will have 1Gb mail capacity, but also (from what i remember from the gmail announcement) spam/virus protection (ok, this company will have it also, but not sure how good/accurate will it be against google, but is something that could mark a clear difference between both), non bloated pages (should check how much weight pages from company, if have graphic ads will be in big disadvantage against google text ads at the very least), multilingual interface, and... well, is google behind, for good or bad (if it was Microsoft, will be a very bad, but still have some trust in google over companies that i simply don't know) and probably future integration with more things from google.

    Not have big problems against the origin of the company, but maybe things could be slower for US residents or countries that have to connect thru US to reach it, or if it have some kind of success, if their (and maybe their country) bandwidth could handle the load that handles google already.

  9. The battle has begun by KalvinB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except this isn't really a battle. The Iraqi web-portal isn't giving people an @google.com or @gmail.com account. Much of the reason people sign up for an e-mail service is the domain name. It really doesn't matter how great the offering is, not too many people are going to get an @goat[...].cx e-mail account.

    When Google announced its GMail on April 1st I took it seriously and decided to improve my e-mail service offering. It's now accessible over the web, SSL secured, fully text searchable and free. Before it was POP3 only, not secured and not free. I'm going to look into adding IMAP access as well. 15,000KB attachment limit and no storage limits as long as you don't try to use it as a remote harddrive.

    You also don't need an existing e-mail account to sign up. Which is nice if you need to sign up for a service and really don't care to give them any real information.

    Also, when you delete a message, it's gone.

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  10. Re:Israel? by ron_ivi · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Slashdot Slashdot has mentioned others. 1GB today isn't really worth any more today than the few MB was when HotMail started.

    The only real news here is that you don't see more companies offering reasonable disk space for their hosting and email in the day of the $79 200GB hard drive.