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.
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.
4 out of 5
A great, free mail serviceSeptember 21, 2009By drivethrujedi
"Mail.com is a basic, free mail service that does offer many great settings and options for the average web user. Even though, it cannot stand to more mainstream and powerhouse email services such as Yahoo, AOL, and Gmail, it packs a punch with the free space that is included in the deal. As you can sign up for a paid membership to gain more space, I feel that 3GB is good enough for the regular average joe. I started using the service as problems with my Yahoo and AOL accounts due to bugs and spam issues, I soon kept Mail.com as my main mail service. I will admit it has taken time to stop many of the spam messages that I have receieved but now can be worry free of any junk mail that I have coming to me. The other con of this service is very rarely a daily sender will pop up in my junk mail and sometimes I am not aware of it. I do hope they fix this bug very soon though. As I have said in the amount of space that your given, the interface of the service is very user friend and does offer some options for more of a intermediate user. It also doesn't offer many of the flashy and gimmicky options as other services do which is a plus in my book. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the service and have been using it for many years now to all of my emailing services."