I'm looking through the vast numbers of companies that provide free POP3 e-mail accounts. Has anyone any recommendations or any to avoid?
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Jaiem posted this at 16:20 — 11th February 2001.
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Do you mean hosts that offer large number of POP3 accounts or free web access to existing POP3 accounts?
If you mean the former, I've used Webbox.com and POP3Now.com, both are OK. Webbox has more features while POP3NOW is a quicker but simpler system.
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dreuby posted this at 21:31 — 11th February 2001.
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What I really want is an extra POP3 (not web-based) e-mail account. My isp provides 5, which we're using. I have a web-based account that I could switch my site to, releasing one that I could use, but it's much too slow to use! (It would be quicker to use snail mail, sometimes than the web based account I've got!)
I'd also have to remember to log on and check it - ideally I'd like to use my current e-mail program to check it when I do my current mail.
Am I asking the impossible?
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Jaiem posted this at 06:30 — 12th February 2001.
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Just a free POP3? Hmmmm....not aware of any off the top of my head. To be free they have to make monet somehow, probably from advertisers so that's why they like web-based access.
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mjames posted this at 21:51 — 12th February 2001.
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If you sign-up with Yahoo! Mail, they offer the ability to receive all of your mail in a POP3 format/environment.
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dreuby posted this at 22:28 — 12th February 2001.
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Thanks - I knew someone would have a solution! I didn't think of looking at the "big" companies like Yahoo.
(You've also saved me the pain of asking one of my children to give up their e-mail address - I probably wouldn't have survived that encounter!)
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Rob Pengelly posted this at 01:46 — 13th February 2001.
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I just got a pop3 email account at
http://www.newsandmail.com
They are pretty good.
Jaiem posted this at 04:24 — 13th February 2001.
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Yahoo, Hotmail etc do let you receive email via a PC email client, but I don't think you can send email from your PC client thru their POP3's.
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mjames posted this at 21:32 — 15th February 2001.
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I don't know about Hotmail, but I am positive you can both send and receive your Yahoo! Mail through POP3.
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