Free email sounds nice, but isn't that the crippled deal where you get slow-loading pages and lots of ads?
No and no. Some free email services offer POP or IMAP access, which means you can download your messages to any email program (such as Windows Mail, Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac OS X Mail). And while you're on the road, you can still take advantage of the free web interface — which, I promise you, is often fast and slender.
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11. FreePOPs - Free Web-based Email to POP Tool
FreePOPs is a highly flexible tool for accessing all kinds of resources — most prominently free web-based email accounts — in any email program through POP. The individual supported services could support more features, though, and configuring FreePOPs and its modules could be easier. (Windows)12. MacFreePOPs - Free Web-based Email to POP Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
MacFreePOPs makes it easy to run FreePOPs on a Mac and access web-based email services such as Windows Live Hotmail in desktop email programs such as Mac OS X Mail. In addition to running FreePOPs as a service, MacFreePOPs gives you an approachable interface for tweaking settings or even watching log files. It's a pity MacFreePOPs inherits from FreePOPs the inability to send mail. (Mac)
13. YPOPs! - Free Yahoo! Mail to POP Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
YPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. If it could also act as an IMAP interface, YPOPs! would be perfect. (Windows)
