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

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."

Comments

Is this a joke submission?

[Liselle]

First 1GB email service? First of all, what is Spymac, chopped liver? They already have a free email service with 1GB of storage.

I'm going to issue a press release... I will be the first person to send data over phone lines. Maybe it will be hardware you install in your computer! Buy my stock!

Re:Is this a joke submission?

[Tumbleweed]

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.

I wonder if they filter out...

[SCSi]

attachments that end in .rar or .r[0-9][0-9] :) I swear, I was only "checking my email".

ah extra room

[jacquesm]

I really needed that for all that spam...
(is that kosher food ?)

spymac

[morcheeba]

Spymac already offers 1Gig Email for free. Gmail's conversations sound like the most useful feature of their service. beta review

Spam

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, world's first 1gbyte spam messages began circulating late yesterday afternoon.

Attachments?

[InvaderXimian]

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.

Cute

[Pahalial]

But..
a) Unknown and unheard of company
b) Physically quite a ways from most wired countries, as opposed to widespread google (Akamai?) servers
c) Israeli only so far, vs. however many localizations (let alone simple translations) google/gmail has/will have.
d) None of the advanced searching/sorting features that Gmail has been promising and actually do sound fairly nice.

So what?

[Seoulstriker]

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.

My Own Announcement

[BandwidthHog]

I would like to announce that I am now the very first Slashdot user to point out that Spymac.com offers a 1GB email service. That's right, you heard it here first. (and, uhh, don't scroll up.)

Lovely!

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

Instead of Google reading your e-mail, the Mossad will.

Re:Israel?

[McAddress]

I'm German, so I feel qualified to answer this comment. Given the choice between an Israeli webmailer and Google, I'd choose Google. Without taking into account features, performance, etc. etc. he picks Google based on the fact that the other one is from Israel. This is accurate? How is the fact that he is from Germany qualify him to post that?

Perhaps he meant that as a German, he was well qualified to make anti-semetic statements.

Re:Spymac is the joke

[mtnharo]

Their service is real and works fine. I have an account: greengeek AT spymac DOT com. However, the problem with their service is due to the fact that they were once a very small mac-users forum/service. When Google made their announcement, spymac gained notoriety for having a 1 gig email service up and running already. Their subscriber base jumped from They got /.ed and farked, as well as having articles in several mac sites and I think zdnet or cnet too. Also, most of the services of the site are still very new, some are still in "beta" and are lacking features. They are deserving of pity for the raping of their bandwidth and servers, but they probably should have expected it too.