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Mail.com and GMX Mail - Free Email Services

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GMX Mail - Free Email Service

GMX Mail - Free Email Service

GMX Internet Services

The Bottom Line

Mail.com and GMX Mail are reliable email services 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.

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 (also available as Mail.com) 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.

User Reviews

 4 out of 5
Mail.com Reliable and Rich Enough in Features, Member wsblevins

I can only review the paid version of Mail.com email service since their switch to being powered by GMX.Mail.com doesn't seem to suffer the problem of randomly locked accounts experienced by numerous…More

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