[kelly]

I'm on my second email server this year and I'm already regretting moving. If anyone has suggestions, I need a free email server that has the following:

Required:
https secure access via web
speed and reliability - usually up and delivers quickly
POP or IMAP access to view messages via Eudora at home

Nice but not required:
Fast web server/fast loading
Text mode
Filtering

hotmail, email.com, yahoomail, etc. do not offer https access. mailandnews and operamail have been very unreliable and go down at least a couple of times a week.

 

[Audio-Me]

https://www.hushmail.com/

 

[Pepsione1]

I was going to suggest hushmail.com too but beware, because you can't always use hushmail on all the computers. Especially with computers that have older OS versions and Macs computers using netscape. There are just too many problems with using hushmail with improper computers. I know this because I have been using hushmail for about 1 year now and I can't use it except when I am at home. Computers in libraries or other public places (usually behind firewalls) are out of the question.

 

[kelly]

I signed up for a hushmail account a little while ago. While I thought the encryption feature was neat, it's basically only usable to other hushmail members. That aside, the service was slow and unreliable or I'd have stuck with them since they offered https.

 

[skippy]

www.fastmail.fm

 

[Audio-Me]

Coolness! Thanks skippy.

 

[kelly]

Quote:

Originally posted by skippy www.fastmail.fm

Thanks Skippy. As you can see, I'm giving them a shot. So far they're great except that I can't get their pop thing to check my operamail or yahoomail accounts. (The mailandnews one worked fine.)

 

[viciouscarrot]

http://www.myrealbox.com

or better yet

https://www.myrealbox.com

Myrealbox rocks, free for life, no ads, imap, pop, smtp servers, ssl if you want it, really nice webmail interface. And fast. It's run by Novell, but hey...

 

[grinch]

i prefer my datapimp.com account:

grinch@*******.com

cost me $25 a year for the pop account, but i feel it's worth it for the effect.

 

[kelly]

myrealbox is more obscene than *******

 

[neil]

That's Russian, right?

 

[Audio-Me]

what are the smtp and pop3 addresses for myrealbox.com?

 

[skippy]

fastmail is going to change their policies, so i'll be looking for a new place.

 

[viciouscarrot]

Audio&Me:

pop.myrealbox.com

smtp.myrealbox.com

imap.myrealbox.com

If you've never used imap before, give it a try. It's like pop except your folders of old email / drafts etc are stored on the server, so you can get at them from anywhere. Outlook Express supports it. Myrealbox can do ssl for pop, smtp and imap as well as http. Also, I don't get any spam. At all. And I do whore out my address a fair bit.

 

[Audio-Me]

Thanks, works great.

I use Kaufman Mail Warrior and its got an option to leave mail on server. SSL is great when I want to access from the web from a different computer.