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Mail.com - Free Email Service

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Mail.com - Free Email Service

Mail.com - Free Email Service

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security and convenience of other web-based email services.
Mail.com is now running on the same platform as GMX Mail.

Pros

  • Mail.com lets you choose from a number of interesting domain names
  • In addition to web-based email, Mail.com offers a calendar and a notepad
  • Mail.com includes 3 GB of online storage

Cons

  • Spam and virus protection is rather weak in Mail.com
  • Mail.com does not offer sending of emails using HTML formatting

Description

  • Mail.com offers free web-based email accounts with 3 GB of online mailbox size.
  • In addition to email, Mail.com includes calendar, notebook and address book functionality.
  • For a fee, you can forward all your Mail.com email or choose POP access.

Guide Review - Mail.com - Free Email Service

Mail.com gives you a lot of choice for your email address. There are hundreds of interesting domain names available. For a fee, you can make use of them with your default email client: either forward messages received at your Mail.com account to another address or choose POP access.

Mail.com's web-based interface is unspectacular, though. Many advanced or convenient features such as secure message deliver, virus scanning or sophisticated spam filtering are absent, and the standard features are, well, standard.

What you get with a Mail.com account, though, is a quite useful online calendar and notebook as well as a solid address book.

User Reviews

 1 out of 5
Intrusive ads, Constantly having to re-logon, Member EdDundas

I began with mail.com when they began, as a paid subscriber for my business. Then, several years ago, they lost 3 months' worth of mail and were unable to replace it. After that, I let my subscription lapse and continued to use it for purely personal mail. However, over the past weeks, they have begun ""pushing"" sound ads through, disrupting any Skype calls or programs being listened to. Consequently, I continue to use it but only intermittently, logging on when I want to send/check personal mail (and to clear out the spam). Recognizing that they need to make money, they have been their own worst enemy in that regard, driving their oldest clients off and earning truly abysmal ratings and ""un-recommendations"".

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