TOP RECOMMENDATIONS - FREE WEB EMAIL SERVICES
@bluebottle.com
Free spam-protected email with 250MB of storage, webmail,
POP3/IMAP access and outgoing SMTP. Bluebottle can be used to consolidate and
spam-protect up to 3 external email accounts (including Hotmail accounts). One
key feature of Bluebottle which makes it stand out from most email services is
that it will only accept emails from trusted senders. Senders
can be flagged as trusted manually inside the Bluebottle interface, or they can
complete a verification step to prove that they are mailing from a real email
address.
@boardermail.com
Free email powered by Outblaze
@bolt.com
Free email, free webspace, chat, discussion boards and more on
this youth-oriented site. Be prepared for a bit of a wait if you're on a
dial-up connection...
@address.com
Free email service with the ability to specify signatures, a junk
mail blocker, collection of email from existing external accounts, the ability
to schedule emails for future delivery, 4 language interface (English, Spanish,
Portuguese, Chinese) and more.
@canada.com
Free email accounts with 3.5MB of storage. Note that accounts will
be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.
@canoemail.com
@aussiemail.com.au
Free Australian web-based email service, powered by Everyone.net.
Free email service with 10MB of storage space and a built-in
Contact Manager.
@dbzmail.com
Free email powered by Outblaze
@dcemail.com
Free email powered by Everyone.net
@centralpets.com
Free email service with 4MB of storage and a variety of features,
including collection of mail from up to 5 external POP boxes, address books,
filters, auto responders. The service provides auto notification of new
messages via ICQ, pager and email.
@didamail.com
Free email service with a bilingual English/Arabic interface,
built-in reminders, an address book, anti-spam filtering and the ability to
collect email from external POP3 accounts.
@animail.net, @moose-mail.com, @snail-mail.net, @whale-mail.com,
@wildmail.com
Free web based email service with 6MB of storage, spam filtering,
spell checkers in 12 languages, a secure login option and more. In a novel and
commendable twist, 5% of all revenue generated by the Care2 service will be
donated to charity. You can also send free E-cards (including musical ones!),
and you can schedule cards months in advance so that you never forget an
important occasion.
@cashette.com
Free web-based and POP3 email service with 100MB of storage and
the ability to consolidate external AOL mail, POP3, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail
accounts. Includes a challenge/response anti-spam system that requires senders
to validate themselves unless they're on an "approved" list of people you will
accept email from. Also incorporates a micro-payment system whereby you can set
your price for "accepting" spam, and companies can pay to reach you so long as
they are willing to meet your asking price.
@catchamail.com
Free email with 5MB of storage and the ability to check multiple
accounts.
AOL Webmail is a free service for AOL and Netscape users. It
enables them to access their mail via any web browser, and to compose and send
new messages without using the AOL connectivity software.
Also offers free paging to notify you when you receive email, and
you can retrieve your email via a free 800 telephone number. You can also build
a free web page via an online interface. There's lots more stuff to do for free
at this huge site. Note that CollegeClub membership is limited to college
students.
@netster.com
Netster offers free web-based email with 4MB of storage space,
plus built-in anti-spam and anti-virus protection. A premium version of the
service is also available.
@myway.com
MyWay offers a fast, elegant email service with 6MB of storage and
a clean, uncluttered interface. In keeping with the general MyWay philosophy,
the only ads presented during the use of the service are text-based ads,
meaning that page loading times stay very fast. MyWay includes safe lists and
block lists for preventing spam, mail filters, a vacation reply function, the
ability to download email from external POP3 accounts, a calendar, address book
and a notepad area. You can customize your mailbox by selecting from a variety
of colour schemes and themes.
@recyclermail.com
@online.ie
Web-based free email service with POP3 and IMAP access, as well as
outgoing SMTP mail support. Comes with 20MB of storage space for emails.
@postmaster.co.uk
Email accounts with 3MB of storage, anti-spam measures, external
POP3 email collection, an address book and other features. Two enhanced premium
service levels are also on offer.
DOMAINS: @graffiti.net
Free email service powered by Outblaze.
DOMAINS: @hotmail.com
As the granddaddy of free email services and the one that started
the whole business, HotMail deserves a special nod for being first. But that
was then and this is now - times have changed, and you get a mere 2MB of
storage space for email. If you go over the 2MB storage limit, you receive a
warning email indicating that in 5 days HotMail will delete some messages...
Heed the warning! HotMail also implements various other service-limiting
"features" at the free level, so read the Terms of Service carefully before
signing up.
@icqmail.com
This service is fully integrated with the ICQ package, with a
"new mail" indication appearing inside ICQ when you receive messages
in ICQMail. The service offers 5MB of storage space, spellcheckers in 7
different languages, external POP3 email retrieval, folders, filtering and an
address book. You must be an active ICQ user to sign up for this service
DOMAINS: @go.com
Free email with an extremely easy-to-remember domain name, from
Disney's Go portal. Each mailbox comes with 6MB of storage. The signup process
is a bit involved as you are actually signing up for personalization, including
free email. You need an email address to complete the signup process, and if
you don't have one GO will let you register a free email address so that you
can then finish the registration process... very weird.
@kittymail.com
Free email powered by Outblaze.
@linuxmail.org
Free email powered by Outblaze
@lycos.com
Free email with 5MB of storage, spam protection, address book and
the ability to download email from external accounts.
@indiatimes.com
Free email with 6MB of email storage, the ability to email in 11
Indian languages as well as English, a calendar and reminder service and 60MB
of file storage space.
Free email service limited to alumni of Xavier University.
You must first register your alumni details, then apply for free email. For
obvious reasons (i.e. I did not graduate from Xavier!) I don't have much
information about this service.
@mailblocks.com
Free web based email service with 5MB of storage and sophisticated
anti-spam features including a challenge/response system for authenticating
valid senders, and 5 disposable tracker email addresses for use with
newsletters and mailing lists. Several premium service plans are also
available.
@mailpanda.com, 138mail.com, asiamail.com, koreanmail.com,
mailasia.com
Free email with a choice of domain names, powered by Outblaze
@marchmail.com
Free email powered by Outblaze
A free email service offered by the University of Liverpool,
MerseyMail does not put advertising in email messages. This is a community
service site, and a list is provided of access points in the area (libraries,
etc.) where people without Internet access at home can check their messages. NOTE:
MerseyMail is only available to people working or living near Merseyside in the
UK!
@mantramail.com
Free web based email service in India, with 6MB of storage, an
integrated calendar, planner and to-do list. Note that the site asks a lot
of demographic questions during the signup process.
@orcon.net.nz
New Zealand-based free email service with POP3/web-based access
and 10MB of storage space. Signup limited to those living in New Zealand.
@mypersonalemail.com
Free email service with 20MB of storage for messages.
@prontomail.com
Free email service with 3MB of storage and support for attachments
up to 2MB in size, an autoresponder, calendar and contact book, plus various
anti-spam measures. Incoming messages must be 2MB or less in order to be
accepted.
@themail.com
TheMail integrates a 3MB web-based email account with a calendar
and address book, external POP3 email collection and an autoresponder. Outgoing
messages are limited to 5MB or less per message.
@weekonline.com
Free email service with 5MB of storage space, multilingual
interface, spellchecker, calendar and appointment scheduler tools.
@outgun.com
Free email powered by Outblaze
@rediffmail.com
Web-based email offered by a massive India-related
English-language site. Their free service offers a very generous 1GB of email
storage (individual messages can be up to 10MB in size) and support for 11
different Indian languages. A fee option is also available, giving access to
further storage, POP3 and SMS support, and more.
@sandiego.com
Free webmail service with 50MB of storage plus spam blocking and
anti-virus protection. A premium service is also available offering more
storage space and POP3 access.
DOMAINS: @safe-mail.net
SAFe-mail offers a free email service with 3MB of storage space
and powerful encryption that can be used to send highly secure email messages
between any two SAFe-mail accounts. This secure email facility also protects
the integrity of any email attachments. Features include IMAP/POP3 support as
well as web-based access to email accounts and outgoing SMTP support, address
books with secure sharing facility (to transmit address books between SAFe-mail
users), folders and sub-folders for sorting email, secure message boards and
online document storage space. Premium versions of the SAFe-mail service extend
the available storage space.
@romymichele.com
Free email service with selective signup policy. Each application
will be reviewed individually (this may take up to 2 weeks). The service itself
comes with many extras, such as forwarding, vacation facility, address book and
autoresponder services. You will need to send an email application to the
webmaster, including details of why you want a free @romymichele.com email
account...
@surfy.net
Free email powered by Outblaze
@ureach.com
The free version of Ureach's flagship uOrganize service, uOrganize
Limited offers web-based email with 3MB of storage, account aggregation, an
address book, a calendar and more. You can also choose to upgrade to the
premium uOrganize service or to other service offerings.
DOMAINS: @vfemail.net
Free email service with web-based access, POP3 and IMAP support,
plus SMTP service for outgoing email. The storage and monthly bandwidth quotas
are both fixed at 15MB for free users, though premium upgrades are available.
Other features include built in virus scanning and spam protection, and an
address book that will hold up to 100 entries.
@wapicode.com
Integrated free email service with 5MB of storage space (and 25MB
of bandwidth a month), shared between the email account and an online photo
album and document storage facility. Service also includes an appointment
calendar and contact manager. Accounts are free if the username is 10+
characters long; shorter usernames and upgraded features are available for a
fee.
Free web based email service in South Africa
DOMAINS: @fastmail.fm, @myfastmail.com, @fastemailer.com, @eml.cc,
@letterbox.org and over 50 other domains
Rapidly-evolving email service with a raft of features, including
a spellchecker, email autoformatting options, IMAP and web-based access and
more. Offers 10MB of storage at the free level, plus a number of low-priced
membership levels giving access to POP3/SMTP, more storage space and many other
features.
@yahoo.ca
Free web based email service with a generous 100MB of storage,
email collection from external POP3 accounts, virus scanning and anti-spam
protection, a built-in file viewer to preview attachments without fully opening
them, and new message notifications integrated with Yahoo! Messenger.
@yahoo.com
Free email with generous 100MB of storage space, anti-spam
protection. You can open attachments that include audio and video clips, or
scripts. Offers a built-in spellchecker. You can use your Yahoo! Mail login to
access various games on Yahoo! You can also check an existing email account via
Yahoo! Mail. You can also configure your outgoing email address.
@yyhmail.com
Free email powered by Outblaze
@doramail.com
Free email for fans of Doraemon, powered by Outblaze.
DOMAINS: @emailaccount.com
Free email service with a memorable domain name, 6MB of storage, a
fast and uncluttered web interface, the option to forward emails automatically
to an external account, a sophisticated address book, email collection from
external POP3 mailboxes, filters, an autoresponder, stationery, support for
text/HTML format messages and multiple attachments, and more.
DOMAINS: @fastmail.ca
A Canadian service, and proud of it... Fastmail.ca offers email
accounts with 4MB of storage, and 1MB outgoing and 512KB incoming message size
limits. The service seems to live up to its name, as the site loads very
rapidly. Premium accounts with an expanded feature set are also available.
@doneasy.com
Free email service with 2MB of storage space, an address book,
email filters, a built-in spellchecker and the ability to retrieve email from
external POP3 accounts. DonEasy's email service is part of an integrated suite
of tools which also include a calendar, message boards, chat, a bookmark
manager, diary and a notepad area for jotting down notes.
DOMAINS: @flashmail.com
Free email service with 5MB of storage space, plus spam filtering.