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Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost
BobPaul writes "Following behind Yahoo Mail's recent upgrade to 100MB of free storage, and trailing behind GMail's 1GB (last mentioned here), ZDNet reports that Hotmail will soon boost email storage as well. 'The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.' Another interesting tidbit from the article: 'Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room... According to an e-mail sent to iWon users, Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage.'"
While it's true that hotmail in its earlier version was a huge spambait, the recent experiences are pretty good. I recently opened a new account (completely new registration) and had one spam mail in 4 months. Now, i'm impressed. Oh wait, we shouldn't have got that one spam mail too...
How about this aventuremail?. 2GB free storage. cheers
But Hotmail, and the MSN site is getting more and more tied to the MSN Messenger. If you want one, you might as well use the others when they're there anyway.
That's my thoughts exactly, I've always had all the storage space I need, and it's hundreds of times bigger than Gmail, WHAT IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT!?
Unless you've got a static IP (or good DDNS), and your ISP doesn't do port filtering, you can't get at that storage from just anywhere. Gmail's available from anywhere you've got a recent web browser.
Additionally, Gmail has pretty darned good search capabilities into that storage (it *is* Google, after all).
About the only thing I can really complain about Gmail is that it's so heavily reliant on Javascript. It'd be really nice if it worked through a text-based browser.
i often have to email attachments that run over 10mb, which makes me break them up. i would love to use an ftp or other transfer method (partly because the stupid ISP's smtp server will bounce the entire msg including attachment as ascii) but the clients that i send stuff to have a hard time with a standard zip file most the time. to me it's just not worth the effort to explain it to all those ppl
I don't know, I have a few issues with Gmail:
1. The "Oops... the system was unable to perform your operation. Please try again in a few seconds." dialog. I had this all afternoon once and was unable to access my mail at all.
2. The group by discussion feature.
3. The fact that it only works with certain browsers (because it's written completely in javascript).
To be fair, hotmail now has filters (hidden away in options) and lists mail "from my contacts" separately.
Many people are utterly startled when they find out hotmail has filters.. You can even apply them to old mail, not just new incoming messages.
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Yes, 10mbyte for the entire message.
Yes, Yahoo! has upgraded their service in other countries. At least in Europe.
MTA+SQUIRRELMAIL+DDNS = independence
in my case its exim4+squirrelmail+noip.com
gmail really cannot compare
Hotmail was actually more tied to MSN Messenger in the beginning than it is now (and has been for a while :P), at least now you can use any e-mail address you wish to instead of just msn.com and hotmail.com
Well I wanted an invite and after around 20 minutes of googling I found a person giving away invites. Later that day I had a Gmail account. Soon there will be so many Gmail invites that you'll have no problem at all getting one.
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You can notice Gmail is in beta though (some minor but often-used features such as remote access and simple blocking are missing), but its still much better than anything out there. I think the beta stage is mostly about training their spam classifier.
Hint: What's "gmail invite" in icelandic? finnish?
Mailinator.com
No account sign-up, no password, just type in any user account name you can think of and check the email for it. Works great for the bazillion or so sites out there that have "free registration" but require a valid email address. All emails are deleted after a few hours.
In short I'm never going back to any other webmail service. It'll take me a lot to pry me away from GMail.
It is important to note that GMail is *FULL* of JavaScript and is unusuable w/o it. For me that's completely acceptable as my mobile Internet doesn't support Javascript and no one should anyway.
If they would switch to something that didn't require JavaScript (and wasn't just so damn sluggish) I would also hop on the bandwagon. Until then I will stick to my standard email setup.
And if you look at the WHOIS records, you'll see that the site is owned by Daniel Brandt. Brandt is the guy who launched the anti-Google crusade because he was pissed that his site (NameBase) wasn't ranked #1 whenever you searched for anybody.
Not to mention that Gmail's javascript makes it entirely inaccessable to disabled users. It breaks all screen-readers in use today because none of them can figure out that the javascripted 'buttons' are actually links.
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Even the DSL provider SBC is going to boost their storage to 100mb for mail accounts. I'd still rather have a gmail invite though.