A note from personal experience on FreeWWWeb: I have used FreeWWWeb before and found it to be very very good. The transfers are quick, the login is quick, everything is perfect, except for one thing. If you own a POP3 account, might as well forget about using it with a local POP3 client. FreeWWWeb is blocking all POP3 calls to servers except for their own. Which, if you don't have a major mailbox that everybody sends to, that's not too bad. (Or if you have a Yahoo account, it can be set up to forward all mail to the FreeWWWeb account. Not sure about any other freebies.) They claim on their website that it is free, unlimited, FULL access to the internet. So, you would think that would allow access to all POP3 servers, right? I emailed them, asking them how they could say that their service allows full access but in reality, one of the most important things is blocked and there's no asterisks or small lawyer writing anywhere. I received no response, as could be expected.
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A note from personal experience on FreeWWWeb: I have used FreeWWWeb before and found it to be very very good. The transfers are quick, the login is quick, everything is perfect, except for one thing. If you own a POP3 account, might as well forget about using it with a local POP3 client. FreeWWWeb is blocking all POP3 calls to servers except for their own. Which, if you don't have a major mailbox that everybody sends to, that's not too bad. (Or if you have a Yahoo account, it can be set up to forward all mail to the FreeWWWeb account. Not sure about any other freebies.) They claim on their website that it is free, unlimited, FULL access to the internet. So, you would think that would allow access to all POP3 servers, right? I emailed them, asking them how they could say that their service allows full access but in reality, one of the most important things is blocked and there's no asterisks or small lawyer writing anywhere. I received no response, as could be expected.
The world (wide web) may never know.
-\ Sentry @ Lightning Flash Studios