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What is the best free email account available?
I need a new email address and I was unsure which site offers the best free email. I know of a few like Yahoo, Hotmail, and Google's GMail but that doesn't tell me much, you know? I use to have a Hotmail account but I got spam a lot and so I didn't really like it. I mean, if that's the BEST there is then I'll just use it but I hope there is better!
Any suggestions?
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I have used every service you mentioned. Many of them for extended periods.
AOL and Hotmail put advertising in outgoing email, which is incredibly unprofessional and annoying. Don't use them.
Gmail and GMX are full-featured and have a very good spam filter. I recommend one of these. Which one you use depends on your taste; GMX has more organizational features than Gmail, but it's heavier.
Yahoo is rather basic and uncustomizable. The spam filter is not so good. I wouldn't use it.
I use paid Fastmail email. It is the only provider with the customizability that I require.
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Each person's taste is different--what is best to me may not be the best to you. So I will just quickly compare the 4 major web-mail services available in the US, and then you will have to decide which is best for you.
Gmail/Google Mail:
---7.5 GB of storage, 25 MB limit for attachments
---text ads only, no ad is added to your email or signature
---uses label system, kind of like tagging your emails
---Gmail has the best spam filter, in my experience. I have not had any spam in my inbox since the day I use it. (either that, or I am just lucky)
---very hard to add pictures and videos into your email, but gmail has many "lab features," which you can enable to tweak gmail to your liking--kind of like Firefox's Add-ons.
Hotmail/Live Mail:
---5 GB of storage, 10 MB limit for attachment
---ads interface and inside emails; they also add text ads into your signature when you send out emails (you have to pay about $20 USD each year if you want the ads removed)
---uses folder system, kind of like categorizing your emails
---its spam filter sometimes send the non-spam emails into the spam folder (for some weird reasons), and miss out a lot of spams (in my experience)
---easy to add pictures as well as videos into your email.
Yahoo Mail:
---Unlimited storage (or so they say), 10 MB limit for attachments
---banner ads and text ads, no ad is added to your signature or email.
---uses folder system, kind of like categorizing your emails
---an okay spam filter--no comment on it
---flexible interface where you can drag the borders to increase or decrease the space
AOL Mail/AIM Mail:
---Unlimited storage (or so they say), 16 MB limit for attachments
---ads in interface; they also add text ads into your signature when you send out emails
---uses folder system, kind of like categorizing your emails
---the most troublesome web-mail service of the four--there are times when the emails that were sent to you never reach you. The rate of lost email is high. (don't know why)
Personally I like Gmail the most, because its advertisements are non-intrusive--it's like there is no ads at all--not to mention that it does NOT put ads into your signature like Hotmail and AOL mail. Aside from its effective spam filter, gmail is fast and has many "lab features." Gmail also group emails of the same subject into one "conversation," allowing you to keep track of your conversation better.
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Also, the other person (the answer below this one) said that there are porn ads and pop up ads on hotmail. That is WRONG!
There are ads in the interface and in the message in Windows Live Hotmail, but NO PORN or POP UP ads. Most likely he has an adware (a type of malware) on his computer and it was causing the problem.
Hope this helps,
=)
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I've used Yahoo, Never had a problem. Hotmail I've had...and got loads of porn ads and popups ack! Also, If you want to try and avoid any future spam I would suggest not signing up for anything that requires a email address and if you do use a junk email!
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I use hotmail and have for about a year. I've had no problem with spam. Especially because you can block a sender right away if they send you a spam e-mail, so they're unable to contact you again.
I wouldn't use yahoo mail if I were you. I had an account on there, but they were always changing things and making you redo your information. I missed a lot of e-mails from people because they were always messing with the e-mail system.
Darby(:
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I use both Yahoo and Gmail. I've never used Hotmail, and I don't ever really plan to.
I'm not really sure how much I'd recommend Yahoo to you though. It's an okay e-mail site, but I don't really like it too much. I personally like Gmail. You still get spam, but I think overall it's just a better e-mail system.
So I would probably say to go with Gmail if I were you.
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