Poll: Which webmail provider do you use?

Re:Poll: Which webmail provider do you use? by Gormo on Saturday September 05, 2009 @01:13AM (#806240)

I have used Yahoo! since 1996 (originally a free Geocities POP3 account), and am currently using a paid account.

I find it much superior to Gmail. Their beta AJAX web interface has the look and feel of a full desktop mail client, and is very similar to Thunderbird. Yahoo!'s AddressGuard feature is extremely useful - Google has nothing really comparable. The only drawback is that Yahoo! does not yet offer IMAP.

I use Google for my calendar and contacts (and use the Google exchange server to sync both of these to my phone).

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Re:Poll: Which webmail provider do you use? by gehant on Saturday September 05, 2009 @02:18AM (#806283)

It doesn't bother you that they essentially charge you for POP3 access?

That's what put me over the edge from Y! to Gmail - I wanted to use an email application (Thunderbird, actually) to manage multiple email accounts. And now I'm mostly using IMAP for better accessibility

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Re:Poll: Which webmail provider do you use? by Gormo on Sunday September 06, 2009 @11:21AM (#807867)

I wasn't aware that POP3 wasn't offered on free accounts. Even so, it's only $15 per year, and the other features a paid account enables are worth it. Nothing wrong with paying for added value. :)

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