UPDATE:Losing HOTMAIL (7/28), Amexmail, Yahoo..... Here are Cheap emails wPOP/SMTP ...........

[GoodRevrnd]

Best free pop email I've found is www.softhome.net. I've had several w/ them for over 4 years. 500k file attachment limit, check limit of every 10 minutes, POP/web based, and FREE. They send an occasional ad to your email, but it's pretty rare and minimal. Good free email service.

 

[tcfpcm]

This is all great, but what if we want to get our emails from Yahoo.com? Is there anyway we can forward our emails to our new accounts? Anyone way to get them forwarded without paying yahoo?

Thanks

 

[manko]

<< This is all great, but what if we want to get our emails from Yahoo.com? Is there anyway we can forward our emails to our new accounts? Anyone way to get them forwarded without paying yahoo?

Thanks >>



web2pop works great, but it's not free ($19.99). It depends who you want to send you money to. Also, $19.99 will allow you to keep using Yahoo for potentially more than one year, depending on the products future and whether Yahoo cancels their free mail all together. It pulls your Yahoo mail in through the web interface, then creates a mini Pop server on your PC, so you can read the messages in any client (like Outlook).

I have also been trying Eprompter, which is Free and also works well. But unfortunately, you can only view the mails in the Eprompter application. You cannot forward or reply or read mail in a standard POP client like Outlook.

 

[QueHuong]

People have been recommending Softhome, Fastmail, and Flashmail the most. Of the three, which is better?

 

[KATX]

 

[KATX]

I am not very good at these things but how come no one has mentioned Juno? Juno has a free Internet service that is limited to 30(?) hours per month. I have subbed to Juno to get a email-address. I never use their ISP. I cannot say what the limit is on their mailbox but frequently I have received 1000 emails at one setting with many of the emails several pages. And when I has more than 1000 emails they let me have the remaining ones after I downloaded the first 1000.

 

[NICKel]

This is all great, but what if we want to get our emails from Yahoo.com? Is there anyway we can forward our emails to our new accounts? Anyone way to get them forwarded without paying yahoo?

Check out FASTMAIL.FM -- I think think they updated their page with instructions to allow users of AMEXMAIL and YAHOO to transfer they existing emails.....

 

[randomlinh]

i think all they give you directions to is to fwd all your mail...

but i ended up paying for a full membership at fastmail... supportin the little guy. And now i've discovered the wonder of IMAP (yeah, avaiable for guest too... but i wanted a few aliases)

 

[jonnashville]

From my friend Steve Jobs... iTools for Mac. Cool @mac.com e-mail address. Pop, Forwarding, even a customizable out of office message.

Bill Gates people will have to fend for themselves... Sorry.

 

[NetworkDad]

I finally broke down and purchased a domain through dixiesys. Gary's service is excellent, and i've had no problems so far!

 

[Goosemaster]

I got my own domain for myhsr.com and will be setting up a mail server soon....WEb-based interface as well....




<< Another one from Russia
POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, Secure access, 20 MB Mailbox, 15MB Message size, no junk mails or footers, no marketing questionaries, choose form several domains.
What else can you ask for? >>



English

 

[Whitneymuse]

Thanks for starting this thread; I like a million others are trying to figure out what to do with the X accounts that Yahoo's going to charge 24.95 x (X) to forward their POP3; oh well, guess Yahoo will have a ton of capicity on their servers at the end of April. I guess they also get a ton less demographics for their ad dollars that are already disappearing. They obviously don't need the numbers anymore cause there must not be the ad $ anymore driving their service.

 

[weepul]

i was wondering if anyone knows a software program that can take yahoo mail off the web like Outlook takes hotmail off the web through an http server. i currently have tons of email address: @*.berkeley.edu, @earthlink.net, @hotpop.com, @yifan.net, @realns.com, and many others which all forward to my yahoo.com account. It'd be a pity if I can't use POP3 anymore, and coughing $20 for an email when I have so many free already isn't really something worth it. if someone can program this, he'll be a genius, or maybe we can already use Outlooks http server and get into yahoo's? any ideas? thanks. ^_^x

 

[weepul]

have you guys heard of eprompter? Link
any feedback would be nice. i emailed them asking if this program will work even for the new yahoo service. i'll get back to you asap.



Free Email Retrieval and Notification Program

Now Featuring a Mini-Email Client

ePrompter? now allows you to compose, forward and reply to the messages that have been retrieved for you.

ePrompter? automatically checks up to sixteen password protected email accounts for AOL, AltaVista, Earthlink, Email.com, Go.com, Hotmail, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, Netscape, OneBox, POP3, Rediffmail, USA, Yahoo and hundreds of other email domains - all at the same time.

ePrompter? features a unique rotating tray icon, and a choice of four unique screensavers that let you know at a glance the number of new messages in each account, which you can easily read and/or delete online or offline with the click of an icon. It's extremely easy to set up and use.

ePrompter's? mini-email lets you forward and reply back through the account that your messages were retrieved from. You can also send original messages through any account that you have working on your ePrompter. It also features an address book. Please note that ePrompter's mini-email client is not meant to take the place of a full-featured email client.

Get the free download for Version 2.0 exclusively now from CNET! This version was released on March 4, 2002. This version includes the following new features:

The ability to compose, forward and reply to messages.

Support of up to 16 email accounts.

The ability to print messages.

The ability to read hyperlinks.

The ability to work with standard firewalls and proxy servers.

The ability to retain retrieved messages when a computer is turned off.

If you are upgrading, be sure to completely exit ePrompter before installing the new version.

 

[weepul]

got a email reply back from eprompter:

The just announced changes at Yahoo should not present a problem
- but who knows what else they may have in mind. In any event,
you should be setting up your Yahoo account as web mail, not
POP3, when using ePrompter.

And while I've got you, please do me a favor and pass ePrompter
along to anyone else you think might find it useful - especially
other Yahoo users.

Craig

= = = Original message = = =

As you may have noticed, Yahoo will remove it's POP3 service
after 4/26
and I was wondering if Eprompter will still be able to check
Yahoo's
mail?

Thank you

 

[Starlite]

Wow, thanks for the link to Eprompt. Only drawback is it is ad supported. But that's reality.

 

[gsethi]

ok, i am new at this thing.

how do i use my own domain name and web hosting ?

i mean, suppose i want to use this as my e mail address:

abc@gssethi.com

what do i need to do ?
Heres what i have figured so far.

I need to register the domain name: gssethi.com
Then i need to sign up with a webhosting place.

what about DNS ? How will i be able to access my e mail ? I was going to signup with cyberwings.com for domain name and webhosting but while registering for domain name, it asked for DNS and i was confused. what should i do ?

Thanks
gsethi

 

[boodahed]

netzero free internet includes email with pop

 

[weepul]

Yahoo POP3 mail will soon come to a halt. For those that do use Yahoo POP3 or its forwarding service, I would really appreciate it if you would send an email voicing your concerns to their mail feedback. Here?s what I sent them a few weeks ago:

I would just like to say how despicable it is to charge users to use POP3 for email. There are tons of free POP3 email servers on the net, but you take advantage of your users because your user database is huge. First you began charging for auctions. I found that irritating, but I acknowledged that all other online auctions charged, so it'd be fair that you do. But charging to use an e-mail service. This is like going back in time!!! I like to point out several things which you should consider carefully: Charging users $20-30 a year is like petty cash to you. Not only will you lose an enormous portion of your user database, people will look toward other email services such as your major competitor Hotmail which Outlook users are able to use Outlook to view/send email (although not POP3, it's way better than webmail in my opinion). It was a very smart move to merge with google (the best search engine out there), but I believe this move will set you back to the dark ages where people actually got charged for email. Let me tell you this, the people who actually pay is not paying for how great your service is, but paying you because they do not want to hassle of changing email. How despicable is that?

Unhappy Yahoo User,
thon5000@yahoo.com

 

[Greatwolf]

Yahoo's a crappy email service anyway. Way too much ads and pop ups especially in webaccess.

 

[weepul]

on the contrary, their pop3 is very reliable. very few down times if any @ all, no ad is added when you send mail through pop3. all you had to do before was sign up for yahoo delivers! which you can easily filter out with spam filters.

 

[XFreebie]

my puny 2mb hotmail accnt, that russian one seems nice but ppl u e-mail might block .ru addresses since most of those are spam.

 

[NICKel]

I guess Yahoo got a lot of heat for this ....... They lowered their rate to 19.99 for pop3....

 

[weepul]

$19.99 for promo? or $19.99 even after the promo period?

 

[NICKel]

I am feeling out FASTMAIL right now but they only offer IMAP vs. POP3 (UPGRADE for that) I amnot sure if I like IMAP... How is everyone else doing with their migrations?