The Bottom Line
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose unlimited online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.
More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.
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Pros
- GMX Mail offers a rich web interface as well as POP and IMAP access in desktop programs
- Unlimited online storage and messages up to 50 MB allow for lots of mail and large attachments
- GMX Mail can retrieve mail from your other accounts (including Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail)
Cons
- GMX Mail does not support encrypted mail and cannot display remote images per sender
- You cannot label mail, find related messages fast or set up smart folders in GMX Mail
- GMX Mail cannot sort mail based on past actions
Description
- GMX Mail offers email accounts including unlimited online storage for email and POP as well as IMAP access.
- You can read mail from other email accounts (including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail) in GMX Mail.
- All mail is scanned for viruses, and a learning spam filter keeps GMX Mail Inboxes clean.
- Flexible filters can sort incoming mail into custom folders or forward it, for example.
- GMX Mail's rich web interface includes drag and drop ease as well as rich-text email formatting.
- While you're away from computers, GMX Mail can send a vacation auto-reply.
- You can have GMX Mail delete mail from any folder (not just "Spam" and "Trash") after a certain number of days.
- In addition to an address book, GMX Mail also includes a calendar and online storage.
