Moore’s Guide To Free POP3 Email Services - 2006 Edition
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If .Mac is too expensive for your taste, you can still get good, reliable email service for free, and thre are more alternatives available this year than last.
Free POP 3 Email Services
Many Mac-owners use Apple's .Mac online service, which includes email, and if you can make good utilization of the package of other features included with .Mac, a case can be made for it being a reasonable, albeit not spectacular value. However, if an email service is what you're mainly looking for, the annual .Mac subscription fee is pretty steep. I'f you've been around the Mac community for a few years, you probably remember that Apple used to offer free mac.com "lifetime" POP3 email accounts, but it proved a short life, and mac.com ended with the launch of .mac. That was around the time things were looking pretty bleak for free POP 3 services, and several others went down the tubes as well.
There are still dozens of free email services on the Internet -- the vast majority of them Web-based, which means that you must access your mail with a browser. Web-based email can be convenient if you travel a lot, or need to access your mail from computers you don't own, because you can use any computer, anywhere in the world, with Internet access to check your mail. However, for regular home or office purposes, POP 3 email is more convenient, especially if you are among the two-thirds or so proportion of Internet users who don't have broadband service.
POP 3 email is the type of email account you access with client software like Eudora or OS X Mail app. or Mozilla Thunderbird or another of the wide selection of others profiled above.
Incoming messages are received by a remote server, and stay there until you download them to your own computer. With POP 3, you can do all your email work offline except for actual sending and downloading of messages, which cuts down immensely on online time used if you;re a dial-up user, and since both outgoing and incoming messages are stored on your own hard drive, it's always easy and convenient to access your archives.
One problem with third-party POP 3 email services, free or otherwise, is that your Internet Service Provider may be blocking Port 25 for all SMTP transmissions other than ones that go through its own SMTP server, which in turn may not accept messages with return addresses other than for your ISP email account. Some third-party email services work around this by supporting Port 587 with their SMTP servers for outgoing mail.
There have been quite a few casualties since my last survey of what's available in the category (notably long-time free email provider SoftHome, which has gone for fee only with their POP3 service). My guess is that this is fallout from Google's Gmail service that offers both Web and POP 3 access and 2.5 gigabytes of online free storage space. Howeverm there are still a bunch of smaller free POP 3 services as well, some with unique features that may appeal. I don't claim that the listing below is exhaustive, but it covers most of the bases I think. Again, apologies in advance for any inadvertant omissions, and if you know of any free POP3 email services I haven't included, please let me know.
Free POP 3 Email Services in alphabetical order
BGXMail.net
http://www.bgxmail.net/
Free: (US user edition)
Free 1000GB Email Services
Available to US citizens only
Fill out advertising forms twice a month (short forms)
10mb attachment limit!
Address Book
Spam Preventing Features For Your Protection
Message Responders & Forwarders Multiple Web-Interface Styles & Multiple Languages Supported
All emails (outgoing/incoming) are protected by Norton, Mcafee and Sophos . -Triple Layer Filtering
Free: (For NON-US users only)
250 MB mailbox with 30 MB attachment limit
Fast, professional and reliable email with 99% NO-SPAM Policy
Free Auto responders and forwarders
90 day idle account expiration limit as well as Double Anti-Virus Protection
Free POP, IMAP, PDA and WAP Access
Click here to signup!
Bluebottle Email
http://www.bluebottle.com
Bluebottle's open-source technology claims to be 100% effective in blocking unwanted email, and to effectively protect a user from spam while ensuring all legitimate email is received.
When Bluebottle receives an email from an address or domain not on your 'Allowed' list, a verification request is sent asking the sender to verify themselves in one of two ways. The required response to these verification requests automatically places the sender's address on your 'Allowed' list, and the email is delivered to you without delay.
Once the sender's address is on this list, they can email you as they would normally. The advantage is that you only receive email from allowed senders. To avoid identification, spammers commonly use forged or fake addresses. Consequently, the verification request is never seen or responded to, so spammers can't infiltrate your allowed list. That means you'll no longer receive annoying, unwanted email.
Simply add your known contacts to your 'Allowed' list so they can avoid verifying themselves. And even if legitimate senders do need to verify themselves, it's quick and easy to do so.
If you're sending an email, Bluebottle automatically adds the recipient's address to your allowed list to avoid a request being sent when they reply.
Features:
• 100% Spam Free Email
• Trusted Delivery Anti-Spoofing
• Webmail / POP3 / SMTP Access
• 10 MB Attachments.
• 250MB storage
• Forum Support
• Contacts (coming Q1 2006)
• Email Taglines (coming 2006)
• New Email Notification (coming 2006)
• Supports Port 587 for SMTP
Bluebottle applies the verification process to your existing email, including Hotmail, by checking your accounts through its servers. Email from known senders is delivered to your account without delay. Unknown email is placed in the pending queue to await verification. You can access your spam-free email through Bluebottle's webmail interface or via pop using any email client.
Allowed Senders
This is your list of addresses and domains from which you will receive
email. Addresses can be either added manually, by automatic addition when
sending outgoing mail, or by the sender successfully responding to a
verification request. Addresses can be easily removed from your Allowed
list.
Blocked Senders
This is your list of addresses and domains from which you will not receive
email. Senders can only be added to this list manually. Emails received
from addresses on this list are deleted instantly without a verification
request being sent. Addresses can be easily removed from your Blocked list.
Pending Verification
This is a list of email that has been sent to you, but is from a sender
not on your Allowed list. It is currently being held awaiting successful
verification by the original sender. You can also allow the email through
manually, which adds the sender's address to your allowed list and the
email is delivered to your inbox. Pending email messages which aren't
successfully verified or allowed through manually will be removed after
seven (7) days.
Verification Method
Bluebottle offers two methods by which a sender can verify themselves. The
first of these methods is "Reply Only", whereby all that a sender needs to
do to successfully respond to a verification request is by clicking on a
link within the email. The second of these methods is "Full Name" which
requires a sender to provide your full name to fulfill the requirements of
the verification request successfully.
Protecting Existing Accounts
Bluebottle checks your external email accounts through its servers and
then applies it to the email verification process. You are then able to
access your spam free email through Bluebottle's site using any web
browser, or you can use any POP/IMAP email client such as Outlook or
Eudora by making a simple change to your email settings.
Bluebottle provides access to your email via the web. Simply visit
http://www.bluebottle.com and login with your full address ()
and your password.
Bluebottle's signup page is quick and efficient with instant activation. Relaibility has been good, although the server is sometimes a bit lazy about responding. Server upgrades are reportedly underway. Bluebottle also offers two levels of enhanced for-fee service.
Cashette
http://www.cashette.com/myCashette/CashetteMail/homepage.htm
Cashette, Inc.'s President & CEO Leon Zuo tells me:
"We have just increased our free email storage again from 100 MB to 3,000 MB. I would appreciate greatly if you can include this in your next update."
So done, Leo.
Cashette is a spam-control email service. You can use Cashette to stop spam and get paid if you receive advertising email.
How does it work? -- You set a price for spam. You get paid foreach "spam" you receive. If they don't pay, you won't receive spam.
Name Your Price for Spam
You are paid for each "spam" you receive.
If they don't pay, you won't receive spam!
You can use Cashette to:
• Stop spam 100% for your email accounts.
• Make money if you do receive ad mail.
• Access multiple email accounts at one place.
Gone are the frustrations of spam. No more annoying spam in your Inbox. No need to be afraid to give out your email address.
If you receive 3 ad mails a day at $0.05 apiece, it will add up to $55 a year.
Works for your Yahoo, Hotmail, Cashette and any POP3 email
• Your Cashette account includes a full-featured email account.
• 3,000 MB of storage.
• Consolidate your email accounts. You can access your multiple email accounts at one place.
• Web-based. You can access your email anywhere you have access to the Internet.
• Use POP3 mail software to access all of your consolidated email accounts including even Yahoo mail.
• Importing your address book is as easy as sending an email using Cashette's Quick Import method.
• No banner ads or pop-up ads.
Unlike other spam solutions, Cashette is attacking the root of the problem. The fundamental reason that spam is flooding the email system is that, unlike traditional advertising, it costs almost nothing to send spam. There is a strong economic incentive for spammers to abuse email. Cashette takes away that incentive by making the spammers pay.
Your Cashette account includes a full–featured email account that is automatically spam–controlled when you sign up. You can set up spam control for your other email accounts such as Yahoo, Hotmail or POP3 email.
Any price above zero will stop spam. Cashette recommends a price between $0.01 and $0.05. A price of $0.00 disables spam control. Your price for spam is preset to $0.05 when you sign up for an account. You can change your price at any time.
Spammers send spam and do not pay. An advertiser who sends paid ad mail must have a Cashette account. The money is transferred from the sender's account to your account at the time the email is sent. You can withdraw money from your account by requesting a check at any time.
Your Cashette account is free. When you receive paid ad mail, Cashette charges the advertiser a 20% commission with a minimum of one cent.
Christian.Net
http://christian.net/faq.php
This online community offers free Web and POP3 email service to members (membership is free) This site is open to anyone, however, it is centered around Christianity (defined according to the providers' core beliefs), and they expect everyone to respect that.
You can use any e-mail program that is POP3 compliant (Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape, etc.)
Note that you should NOT configure your mail program to check for new mail too frequently. The POP server counts each check you make and it will stop letting you in if you exceed a certain amount per day. This is an effort to help conserve bandwidth and reduce the impact on the server. This does not apply to the webmail program though. Checking once every 5 to 10 minutes is fine, checking every few seconds is not.
Christian.net don't currently allow you to use their SMTP server for relaying from external mail programs. Instead, you should configure your software to check for mail here while sending through your local ISP's mail server.
The mail server scans all incoming and outgoing messages and deletes those that contain viruses. The virus database is updated twice a day so it should always be current.
Each Christian.net e-mail address has a completely customizable spam filter. The default spam filtering options should stop most junk mail, but you might want to fine tune it using PEP.
Currently any single message is limited to 10 megabytes.
Your inbox is limited to 10 megabytes and email will bounce once it's full. To avoid this, either download your mail or move it into a different folder in the webmail program.
EmailAcc
http://www.emailacc.com/index.htm
A free email service that offers free POP3, Web based and redirection email accounts. They offer you to send your emails without any promotional text. Bilingual site both in English and French and they are one of the cheapest ISP in UK and France but email service is free for everyone.
FreePop3.net
http://www.dvclan.org/freepop3/
20MB. No Bloat. And its Free.
FreePop3.net provides free POP3 email accounts with webmail access. As the name suggests, this service is completely free of charge. Completely free anti-spam and anti-virus protection as an added bonus. This comes as standard with all free POP3 email accounts.
Support is free via email.
You can not only access your Free Pop3.net e-mail account from all over the world using the web-mail functionality but also use your favourite email client such as Eudora or Outlook.
Free Pop3.net was started by a team of computer enthusiasts who had had enough of all these so called 'free' services that didn't provide POP3 access. Not only that, they covered your emails with ads and gave you very little space.
FreePop3.net is dedicated to its task of providing you with free e-mail that is not only secure and reliable but is also extremely easy to use. They store none of your personal details, keep all legal email confidential and provide a generous amount of space. Theu rely on ads and donations. However, this is a non-profit company.
Any money derived from ads and donations goes into paying for the servers.
Gawab.com
http://www.gawab.com/webfront/main.php
This email service based in Alexandria, Egypt, offers:
• 2048 MB FREE account
• 50 MB Attachments
• 15 Interface Themes
• 14 Different Languages
• Unlimited Number of Folders
• POP/SMTP Support
• Protection from spam, viruses and pornographic emails
• More than 50+ features (some for fee, ut the basic service is free)
• Message Filters & Rules
• Also supports Webmail so you can check your inbox with a browser from any computer on the Internet
Signup is a bit time consuming and demands a lot of information, but once the signup process is complete, the new accouunt is created instantly.
I've used Gawab, and it has been fast and slick, and reliable both for checking and sending mail. When I had a technical support question, the Gawab folks got back to me promptly with the information I needed. Impressive.
Google Gmail
http://gmail.google.com/
Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes more than 2,500 megabytes (2.5 gigabytes) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly finds any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them again.
When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages.
I've been using Gmail for about nearly two years, and have found it reliable and generally excellent, especially since POP3 acces was added.
You can get a Gmail account if you're invited by someone who already has one. Or, you can sign up for an account using your mobile phone
Quick Facts
* Cost: Free
* Storage: 2,500+ megabytes (and counting)
* Superior spam protection using innovative Google technology
* Languages: Messages can be sent and read in most languages. The Gmail interface is available in 38 languages: US and UK English, simplified and traditional Chinese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
* Access: Free automatic forwarding and POP3 access
* JavaScript and cookies must be enabled on all browsers
Fully supported browsers:
- Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac)
* Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+
(Note that officially unsupported browsers may work too)
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. The key features are:
Search, don't sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
Don't throw anything away.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.
Google is currently only offering Gmail as part of a preview release and limited test. They don't don't have details on when Gmail will be made more widely available, as that depends in part on the results of the test. If you're interested in receiving updates on Gmail, submit your email address using the form on Gmail's Web page
HotPOP
http://www.hotpop.com/index.jsp
HotPOP LLC is a privately held company based in Newton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1998, HotPOP offers email accounts, from various domains, with a combination of features not found with other providers.
Features:
* FREE POP Mail Access - Read your mail with your favorite program.
* Large Mailboxes - Store thousands of messages with up to 100 megabytes of space.
* Ad-Free Options - Opt-out subscriptions available for as low as $0.99/month.
* Mail Filtering - User-defined filters can stop spam and other undesirable mail before it ever gets to your mailbox.
* Instant Signup - You can be ready to go in a few minutes.
* Free Support - If our site can't help you, our free email support can.
* Free Mail Forwarding - Have your mail forwarded to up to 15 addresses.
* Free SMTP Access - Send mail directly from your favorite client.
* Cool Domains - Fun, frisky and memorable.
* No Popups - We use no pop-ups, not even for free accounts.
New Features
Email Aliases: Protect your privacy and prevent spam with unlimited email aliases.
Major Anti-Spam Upgrade: Change message subjects or block spam based on your own settings.
New Support Center: Helping you better, faster, and easier.
Client Setup Guides: Step by step guide library launches.
There is also Web access to your HotPOP account. There is a limit of 500 KB per message, and a maximum of 1,000 incoming email messages per day.
Signup is easy. Just fill out the form and survey and you are ready to go. An email will be sent to your old address with your password and some helpful information. If you are using a POP account, you can log in right after you configure your client.
HotPOP currently has seven domains to choose from and says they constantly searching for new ones. Memo: keep looking, guys -- most of these are pretty lame.
• HotPOP.com
• ToughGuy.net
• PunkAss.com
• BonBon.net
• Phreaker.net
• SexMagnet.com
• GameBox.net
I've had a HotPOP account for several years. Once in a while the server is a bit sluggish about answering, but it always comes up, There is SMTP support for outgoing mail, which requires checking your inbox before sending, and I've found that aspect to be a bit cranky at times, requiring two or three checks before the SMTP server will respond.
HotPOP offers a combined POP3/forwarding and web-based email service. At the free level, HotPOP includes 10 MB of storage for email messages, and the ability to specify up to 3 destination addresses to forward messages to.
Another one that has proved to have staying power, and it's been reliable.
ICMail.Net
http://mail.icmail.net:7080/scripts/webmail.ex
Features:
1GB of Free E-mail Space
POP3/SMTP/IMAP Access - icmail.net or mail.icmail.net
No Expiration on Mailbox like with hotmail
Free AntiVirus Protection
Free Spam Detection System
SMS
Auto Responders
Import your existing POP3 E-mail Accounts
Secure HTTPS Access
Unlimited Aliases
Free Blogs
Free Subdomains E-mail Address & Free Blogs
http://blog_name.blogs.icmail.net/
Free Calendar and Free File Sharing
Free Photos Sharing
Free Chats and Forums Beta
Multi Language Support - English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish
InMail24.com
http://www2.inmail24.com/
Features:
A private mailbox with a size up to 16 MB.
Outgoing e-mails can include multiple attachments.
Access via Web, POP3, IMAP4.
Access to your e-mail from anywhere in the world.
Built-in anti-virus system Zoner Antivirus.
Configurable anti-spam protection.
Messages can be filtered right on the server.
Folders for organizing your e-mail.
Stability, security, accessibility, and speed
Each registered user gets a copy of Zoner Photo Studio 8 classic. This application is a great way to get started in the world of digital photography.
LPeMail
http://www.lpemail.com/
Free POP3 and web-based email service with 10MB of storage
Fast, easy signup and immediate use access.
Spam Free Email
• Free Email Account
• A Spam Filter that works. An Email Manager that Blocks SPAM from your Inbox Stops 99.999% of SPAM and Viruses at the server
• Protect yourself from annoying SPAM
• Protect your computer from Viruses, Trojans and more and sophisticated anti-spam protection, including whitelist, blacklist and keyphrase options.
• Take Back all that wasted time sifting through Junkmail
• Protect your Family from being subjected to pornography
• Reduce the Spread of Harmful Viruses
• Guard your friends from re-routed Spam e-mail
• Use an Email Account that Works to Protect YOU
How can LPeMail's Spam Filter be Free?
LPeMail is supported by voluntary donations from those in the Community. If you would like to make a donation, go to:
http://liveprayer.com/donations.htm
Note that you will receive a daily devotional email in your LPEmail account.
MailShack
http://www.mailshack.com
MailShack from Nerdshack offers free anonymous POP3 e-mail accounts.
A nerdshack.com e-mail account comes with a pledge to protect your privacy, and respect your time. nerdshack.com will not surrender your e-mail address to anyone, and will actively attempt to keep spam out of your inbox. The Nerdshack promises never to scan your email, or allow anyone to access it without a court order.
Currently, MailShack offers the general public free POP3 e-mail accounts with a one hundred megabyte quota, and the service supports both incoming and outgoing messages. Users are limited to only sending one hundred messages per day. You may send and recieve attachments up to 10 megabytes in size.
MailShack supports encrypted authentication using CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 for outgoing messages, and APOP authentication for downloading your incoming mail, and also supports encrypted sessions for outgoing mail over ports 25 and 3535, and encrypted sessions for incoming mail over port 110 using STLS, and over port 995 using an alternate port configuration.
You may also check your email using nerdshack.com's Webmail beta.
MailShack pledges to always offer a free level of service that meets or exceeds what you get today. In the future they may choose to offer premium service levels above what the free service level provides.
They will never attach tag lines, or advertisements to your outgoing messages. Tag lines are unprofessional, and more importantly, annoying. We use this service too, and wouldn't subject our users to anything we couldn't tolerate ourselves.
I found MailShack's signup page quick and simple to complete, and the account activation was immediate. I've only had an account for a couple of days, but so far the service seems to work well.
SAFe-mail.net
http://www.safe-mail.net/
SAFe-mail is a secure, easy to use email system. It includes encrypted collaboration features and document storage functions.
3 Mb space is free. More space and functionality is supplied under Premium Services. There are no advertisements, downloads or cookies. SAFe-mail supports most hardware platforms and any operating system. Includes spam filters. Full compatibility with most browsers, email clients and all relevant protocols including POP, SMTP, IMAP, S/MIME and PKI.
SAFe-mail is designed to provide maximum security and privacy without any complexity.
SAFE-MAIL has developed a comprehensive, feature rich communication system that provides a wide range of applications including messaging, collaborative document development, statement/invoice delivery, data distribution/access, data storage and on-line payment. Uniquely in the current market place, every application is robustly secured by state-of-the-art encryption ensuring the highest level protection and privacy to users. Within the overall system as with each application, security is not an add-on feature but has been designed in to the fundamental architecture of every function.
SAFE-MAIL provides the following functions, features and benefits:
• Feature-rich secure e-mail system including security of attachments providing private end-to-end email communication among SAFe-mail users and between SAFe-mail users and non-SAFe-mail users.
• All messages are registered and tracked with read receipt so that users know when their emails are delivered and opened by recipients.
• Address Book with secure grouping and sharing facility so that users' private address books may be securely exported and imported between SAFe-mail users.
• Folders and nesting of sub-folders enabling users to organize archived data content.
• User level Authentication facility enabling users to filter communication and data access to specific user groups.
• Scheduler with secure sharing facility enabling users' schedulers to be securely exported and imported between SAFe-mail users
SAFe-mailTM provides a high level of protection against invasion of privacy. Using SSL (Secure Socket Layer), which is a component of all current browsers, for all data transmissions and strong proprietary encryption for server security, it offers the highest possible protection for all e-mail communications and file attachments.
The policy is to enable free service and if the resources available for free are enough for you, you may use the service as long as you wish.
Features and functions of premium accounts and free accounts are similar. The main difference is in the quantities i.e. less names in the address book, less folders, filters, mails per hour, disk space, frequency of backup etc.
Free service also enables corporate senders such as banks, lawyers, heath care firms etc, to tell their customers to open a free account at safe-mail so that they can correspond with their customers securely.
We therefore believe that the benefit derived from providing free accounts (3Mb) outweighs any reason to change the current position.
The system is available at any time and from any location using any device or Operating System be it PC or Macintosh, Windows or Unix, Sun or i-mode enabled wireless device.
Spymac
http://www.spymac.com/network.php?p=tour
Spymac membership includes an email account that can be accessed externally via POP3 or with Spymac Mail's web interface. Each account includes a generous 1000 MB of storage space, matching what Gmail offers. Spymac Mail sends and receives millions of email messages every year. free account is available to anyone over the age of 13.
Spymac Mail offers several advantages over other free Internet-based email. In addition to the one-gigabyte storage increase, Spymac Mail also offers both POP3 and Webmail access to the email accounts. Web-based mail works in all browsers that support JavaScript and cookies. The web-based mail comes with banner advertising and 100 MB of web site hosting space, but a mere $20 (US) a year removes the advertising. Presently Spymac's rapidly expanding free mail service supports almost 50,000 distinct email accounts. For those wondering why on earth they would need one gigabyte for POP3 mail, don't despair; because IMAP mail capabilities are under development and will be available very soon.
Ilene Hoffman, Spymac Editor and PR contact, and a former AOL user, notes that it was a problem when her AOL mailbox was cleaned of old mail. "Due to unsolicited mail (Spam), real mail disappeared daily, including some I'd never seen. It was frustrating," Ilene notes. Barry Porter, Manager of Information Systems at Gerber Electronics, formerly in MA, says: "With the increased dependence people have on reliable email, having enough space on an email server is becoming a necessity, not just a convenience."
Spymac welcomes email accounts from users 13 years old and up on any operating system. The Spymac Hosting servers are located in Düsseldorf, Germany, in a secure, Suntone Certified facility that utilizes biometrics, CCTV, key-cards, mantraps and 24x7 on-site-security guards. Redundancy is built into Spymac's server cluster, allowing for fast, reliable services with virtually no down time.
Spymac Network Inc. (Spymac), a New York City based corporation, established in February 2003, is an Internet-based International Macintosh community web site. The site runs on Spymac 3, an internally developed software platform. The site includes message boards, email, web hosting, online auctions, a graphics gallery, a music gallery, and custom designed products, such as backpacks and briefcases. Users can also host their own blogs, iCals, and focused-message boards. Spymac is the largest Online Macintosh User Group and is developing under the belief that community is the Internet's most valuable resource.
http://mail2.unitedmailsystems.com/
Virus Free Email
http://www.vfemail.net/
Virus Free Email provides businesses and end-users a quick and convenient way to ensure their own security when it comes to email.
VFEmail.net scans each complete email, including attachments, for viruses (AND SPAM TOO) BEFORE it gets to your INBOX. If a virus is found, you, the originator, and our staff will be notified. We do not share these email addresses, but we collect infection data, so we can pro-actively stop those offenders who may be unknowingly spreading disaster.
VFEmail also provides a convenient web-mail interface intended for corporate "Road Warriors". The flexibility of this interface includes HTML, MS Word, and MS Excel document viewers. We also support individual Email forwarding, domain forwarding, vacation messages, and work with our clients to constantly increase the flexibility of our offerings.
If you are using mail.vfemail.net as your SMTP server, you have two options:
1. Check your mailbox with POP BEFORE you send an email.
Quite a few email clients support this setting. Note: Netscape 4.7x has a bug that will cause problems in this mode, and not allow you to send email. Upgrade to Netscape 6.1
2. Use plain text to authenticate to SMTP.
This is the most popular option, all modern email clients should support this. It is also a better choice if you are an IMAP user. VFEmail.net supports SMTP over SSL, so even though your password is 'plain-text', your whole connection has already been encrypted. Email the HelpDesk if you have any questions.
Charles W. Moore
