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Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost

Posted by simoniker on from the more-more-more dept.

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.'"

6 of 623 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If you build it.... by andhravodu · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

  2. aventuremail by zam4ever · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about this aventuremail?. 2GB free storage. cheers

    1. Re:aventuremail by chungking+mansions · · Score: 4, Informative


      Aventure Mail Error
      We are currently not accepting new registrations. Accounts can be purchased in our store (http://www.aventuremail.co.uk/store) in the mean time.

  3. Re:All the storage I need. by Genom · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Whats the diffrence? by wfberg · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:All the storage I need. by kayen_telva · · Score: 3, Informative

    MTA+SQUIRRELMAIL+DDNS = independence

    in my case its exim4+squirrelmail+noip.com

    gmail really cannot compare