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AOL Launches Free Webmail Service
kmilani2134 writes "America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service. Called AIM Mail, the service marks AOL's latest attempt to reposition itself as a broad portal rather than a subscriber-based service. It also will compete more directly against Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and Google Inc., all of which have battled over Webmail storage and features over the past year. This was covered by both eWeek and InternetNews.com. Of note, they seem to have incorporated the Mailblocks spam filtering and tracker addresses into their service. It will be interesting to see how long before these new 2 GB accounts are inundated with spam."
It is an @aim.com.
Or is this another case of great editing?
R.
Nope. Google's got theirs set to slowly increase with time - it's currently closing in on 2.2GB. Every day or so they add a few more MB (about 150 since April 1, I believe)... so Google's probably not worried about AOL overtaking them in some silly storage space war. Not much of it is getting used, anyhow - I've still only filled mine with about 14MB of stuff, it's growing far faster than I can fill it.
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What is interesting is that you already have an account if you have an AIM Screen Name. I went to the website, logged in with my AIM credentials, and it brought me right into the inbox. No accepting any terms & conditions, etc. It never even told me what my email address is (though I assume it is screenname@aol.com).
Seriously. I mean, at least try the product first.
n itRegistration.psp.
The AOL spam filters have gotten quite good over the past couple years, better than Yahoo/Hotmail and way better than that of your typical cable operator. The web interface is really nice (Mailblocks). There's free IMAP access. And if you use AIM, there's good integration between AIM and AIM Mail. Clearly I'm biased, but I think it's a great product.
If you have an AIM account, you can try it out at http://mail.aol.com/ . If not, you can create an AIM account at https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/i
Some more info at my blog: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman
Yes, of course. BUT, for NEW users, the issue will be the same as with AIM/AOL screen names: Not a lot of human readable ones left, and seems like AOL does not like to free up inactive ones.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
MIME encoding. Your binary attachment is made up of 8-bit bytes. The mail server will only accept 7-bit bytes, so your client must use 7-bit MIME encoding. Theoretically, this would make your attachment 1/8th larger but due to other various inefficiencies, it can become over 20% larger.
Also, 20MB is actually 20,971,520 bytes (20 * 1024 * 1024) so that makes things confusing too.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
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they've already been taking over by http://shinyfeet.com/ their the first to offer unlimited email space, but the killer is, unlimited online file storage as well. it is free, and there are some ads (as with all the others) but they are not intrusive and certianly I can put up with them for unlimited space. Shinyfeet Storage Usage: 0.0000000012% of Unlimited Disk space used: 12.2GB
do you have shinyfeet?