Webmail recommendation please

What's a good recommendation for a webmail service please?

Priorities:

1) easy to use
2) minimal delay in receipt of messages


TIA

-- Graham

"Graham J" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:492fb9c3$0$10551$(E-Mail Removed)...
> What's a good recommendation for a webmail service please?
>
> Priorities:
>
> 1) easy to use
> 2) minimal delay in receipt of messages
>
>
I use googlemail.com (know as Gmail in other parts of the world.)
Choose that over others as completely free and downloads into Outlook
Express/Windows Live Mail with no problems.

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Regards,
David

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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:42:11 -0000, David wrote:

> I use googlemail.com (know as Gmail in other parts of the world.)
> Choose that over others as completely free and downloads into Outlook
> Express/Windows Live Mail with no problems.

I use gmail with SeaMonkey as my email client with no problems. Spam
filtering is very good too, catches all the obvious spam and most of
the not so obvious as well.

One account is gmail.com, the other is googlemail.com.

In news:492fcfe4$0$10540$(E-Mail Removed),
Charani <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:42:11 -0000, David wrote:
:
: > I use googlemail.com (know as Gmail in other parts of the world.)
: > Choose that over others as completely free and downloads into
: > Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail with no problems.
:
: I use gmail with SeaMonkey as my email client with no problems. Spam
: filtering is very good too, catches all the obvious spam and most of
: the not so obvious as well.
:
: One account is gmail.com, the other is googlemail.com.

I believe that was implemented for legal reasons or some such thing. When
gmail first started in the UK accounts were (E-Mail Removed) then they
became (E-Mail Removed). Accounts registered in the US remain
gmail.com. I have three, one from the early days in the UK @gmail.com, one
a couple of years old @googlemail.com and one I set up while in the US
last year @gmail.com.

I believe though that mail addressed @gmail.com to a googlemail.com
address will still get through. It certainly did when I tried it last
year, don't know if it still does though.

I agree 100% about the spam filtering capability of the system, I forward
mail from my domain address to gmail and from there to my Orange account
(so I get the free SMS alerts) and the number of spam messages I get a day
dropped from about 300 or so to 15-20.


Ivor

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
TheOldFellow <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange, unexplained
reason:

[snip]

: I too, recommend Googlemail. All my old lady clients (aka: olc's -
: please will you help me set up my broadband so I can get piccys of the
: g-kids...) get a googlemail address instead of using the ISP-provided
: one. Saves me installing and maintaining spam filters on
: AntiTrustSoft's Wonka boxes. Let's them check their email when they
: are in Majorka... Great help system for setting up, not that the
: olc's can use it.
:
: Oh yes, and I use it too, have done for years - no complaints at all.


And you can set it so that mail appears to come from whatever account you
like (as long as you can prove rights to it, of course). Plus it supports
POP3 and IMAP access.

Well recommended. The onscreen adverts annoy me a little but I can live
with it.


Ivor

Graham J wrote:
> What's a good recommendation for a webmail service please?
>
> Priorities:
>
> 1) easy to use
> 2) minimal delay in receipt of messages
>
>
> TIA
>
> -- Graham

GMX
https://mail-eu.gmx.com/
Very easy to use, extremely reliable and feature packed, have used for many
years - Similar functionality to Gmail.
--
aa

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
aa <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange, unexplained reason:
: Graham J wrote:
: > What's a good recommendation for a webmail service please?
: >
: > Priorities:
: >
: > 1) easy to use
: > 2) minimal delay in receipt of messages
: >
: >
: > TIA
: >
: > -- Graham
:
: GMX
: https://mail-eu.gmx.com/
: Very easy to use, extremely reliable and feature packed, have used
: for many years - Similar functionality to Gmail.

What is the spam filtering like..? Not come across anything approaching
Gmail's capability on this in a webmail system.

Ivor

Ivor Jones wrote:
> In news:(E-Mail Removed),
> aa <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange, unexplained
> reason:
>> Graham J wrote:
>>> What's a good recommendation for a webmail service please?
>>>
>>> Priorities:
>>>
>>> 1) easy to use
>>> 2) minimal delay in receipt of messages
>>>
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> -- Graham
>>
>> GMX
>> https://mail-eu.gmx.com/
>> Very easy to use, extremely reliable and feature packed, have used
>> for many years - Similar functionality to Gmail.
>
> What is the spam filtering like..? Not come across anything
> approaching Gmail's capability on this in a webmail system.
>
> Ivor

Excellent - I actually use the free (German) gmx.net service which recently
added antivirus protection. This offers 6 antispam 'modules'
- Header Analyser
- Spamserver Blocker
- Whitelist
- Blacklist
- GMX Team Antispam List
- Global Antispam List

For UK users, the free (English) gmx.com/gmx.co.uk service *additionally*
offers a seventh module, a Text Pattern (Bayesian) Profiler; over time this
module learns to successfully identify unwanted e-mails and diverts them
accordingly.

Well worth a look-see in my opinion.
--
aa

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:59:48 -0000, aa wrote:

>> What is the spam filtering like..? Not come across anything
>> approaching Gmail's capability on this in a webmail system.
>>
>> Ivor
>
> Excellent - I actually use the free (German) gmx.net service which recently
> added antivirus protection. This offers 6 antispam 'modules'
> - Header Analyser
> - Spamserver Blocker
> - Whitelist
> - Blacklist
> - GMX Team Antispam List
> - Global Antispam List
>
> For UK users, the free (English) gmx.com/gmx.co.uk service *additionally*
> offers a seventh module, a Text Pattern (Bayesian) Profiler; over time this
> module learns to successfully identify unwanted e-mails and diverts them
> accordingly.
>
> Well worth a look-see in my opinion.

OK, so after this thread started I signed up fro an account with GMX.
Got T'bird 3 configured and sent/received messages OK.

Tried to log in to access the forums, but the login button didn't do
anything (might be because I'm using Opera).
Sent an email to support at gmx this morning. Just had an email from gmx,
but to an address that I didn't give to gmx(!) saying 'sorry that it didn't
work out' and there was a link. I trashes the message without clicking the
link, of course.

So, I don't yet know if I still have an account (about to try it) and don't
know if I've just had spam.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:34:33 -0000, Ivor Jones wrote:

> I believe that was implemented for legal reasons or some such thing. When
> gmail first started in the UK accounts were (E-Mail Removed) then they
> became (E-Mail Removed). Accounts registered in the US remain
> gmail.com. I have three, one from the early days in the UK @gmail.com, one
> a couple of years old @googlemail.com and one I set up while in the US
> last year @gmail.com.

Thank you for the explanation )

> I believe though that mail addressed @gmail.com to a googlemail.com
> address will still get through. It certainly did when I tried it last
> year, don't know if it still does though.

I think you're right. I inadvertently gave a googlemail address as
gmail and didn't have any problems but it was a while back. I'll have
to try it again and see if it still works.