Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:38:06 -0700
> Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Patrick,
>
> >I don't need lots of storage or big attachment sizes (or any
> >attachments really), but I do need IMAP, so I can use Claws. It
> >must be
>
> You don't need IMAP to use Claws. However, if you're set on using
> IMAP, the following may be useful.
IMAP was the recommended way to access free Yahoo Mail with an email
client. You had to convert to a paid account to get POP access. Don't
know if that's still the case.
> http://www.inbox.com do IMAP & POP/SMTP, but limit you to 5GB, which
> is fine for text stuff, but if you have lots of big(-ish) attachments,
> space might become an issue.
>
> http://www.yandex.com do IMAP & POP/SMTP with a 10GB mailbox when you
> sign up. As soon as you get to within 200MB of that limit, it's
> increased by 1GB. The help files don't specify, but seem to imply
> that the mailbox capacity will increase by 1GB every time you
> approach your current limit.
>
> http://www.zoho.com do IMAP & POP/SMTP. Mailbox size is 5GB on a free
> account.
>
> Http://www.mail.com do IMAP & POP/SMTP. They *say* they charge for
> those services, but I can log in and do POP/SMTP, without paying them
> a penny. I can't find a size limit for the mailbox, but the T&Cs
> indicate there is one (...for your contract type...)
>
> I use all of the above with Claws via POP/SMTP, don't pay for them
> (they all have free accounts) and have no problems.
Have read about all of them. Only zoho.com got a mostly (50%) good
rating. The others got 3 or 4 "bads" for every "great." There
wer no inbetween rating for any. They were either great or
awful. Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> >FYI: If I don't get replies -- because of Yahoo my posts don't get
> >mirrored back to me -- I can't know if this got through. So, at
>
> Most lists I'm on (the ones run using mailman) have an option to send
> the poster an acknowledgement of their post.
I used to get all my posts and replies mirrored back until a couple of
weeks ago they stopped. I didn't change anything. I think it's
Yahoo's authentication problems with the list that's the cause; hence
the switch to another email provider to see if I'm correct.
Again, thanks for the suggestions.
B
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