Addresses

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Support this site:

• FastMail. POP/IMAP/web access to mail.
  • Fast, ad-free, graphics-free email provider. Supports IMAP, POP, and web access (all secured by SSL for peace of mind) to up to 100MB mailboxes, so you can access your email from anywhere. Filters, customsiable forwarding, and vacation auto-responses for power users, and access to external POP and HotMail accounts so you can consolidate all your accounts in one place.
  • Well supported at their independent forum.
• Runbox: offers POP/SMTP/Web/WAP in one account, up to 100MB storage!
• Mail-Center.com offers POP/IMAP/Web, 10MB, vacation autoreplies, forwarding, access other accounts, no banner ads, and web space.

Definitions:

• Aliases: forwards to another address
• Box/Account: actually holds messages at that address

Get multiple aliases for your same e-mail address. Say your address is person@notreal.com. You could use:

• person+personal@notreal.com
• person+business@notreal.com
• etc.

Try the above and see if the messages arrive at your person@notreal.com account. Otherwise, ask your e-mail administrator/provider to see the Email Addressing FAQ (How to use user+box@host addresses) for instructions on implementing this. Even if you use Mac or Windows for your e-mail client, your e-mail account may be on a unix machine, for which this FAQ is written. And the mail administrator may be able to get it to work on Mac or Windows servers as well. This section is for listing services that provide e-mail addresses, either actual pop/imap boxes, web based, or forwarding, whether free or commercial.

Sources of extra e-mail addresses: (I don't list many free ones because there are so many out there -- see last section below)

• Check with your ISP to see if they offer extra aliases or mail boxes. (aliases forward to another address, and are not distinct boxes)
• Try these to support this site
  • Mail-Center.com Personal Email Accounts. POP/IMAP or Web access! 10 MB space. Vacation autoreplies. Forwarding. Access e-mail on other servers as well. No banner ads while reading your mail. Includes web space to make your own web page (which won't put in banner ads unless you put them there!).
  • MailFire.net: Premium E-Mail accounts with ZERO-ADVERTISEMENTS! Packed with other features including 20 megabytes of storage, POP3 and SMTP and web-based access to the account, weekly back-ups, and more! For only $5.95 for TWO months or $19.95 for a full year!
  • HushMail free or premium web-based encrypted web-mail accounts.
• akaMail from Edson Enterprises. Can forward mail or set up a pop box.
• Bigfoot. Forwarding service.
• Maildrop.com -- aliases or boxes.
• POBox from IC Group. Forwarding service. Their POBox+ service has extra features, including access to their SMTP server.
• FastMail POP/IMAP/web
  • Fast, ad-free, graphics-free email provider. Supports IMAP, POP, and web access (all secured by SSL for peace of mind) to up to 100MB mailboxes, so you can access your email from anywhere. Filters, customsiable forwarding, and vacation auto-responses for power users, and access to external POP and HotMail accounts so you can consolidate all your accounts in one place. Well supported at their indep endent forum.
• SecureNym.net POP/IMAP/web/SSL. Server side S/mime or PGP encryption of incoming messages. Users' originating IP info, etc., is stripped.
• Spamcop.net -- great anti-spam service!
• Usermail.com offers pop3/smtp accounts.
• WebCircle offeres boxes or forwarding. Premium accounts also come with other options such as automatic vacation replies and finger server information. Also offers autoresponders.

Utilities for webmail:

• Support this site:
  • Redirector from Mailgov redirects up to three accounts from "Hotmail, AOL or other webmail to your Blackberry, T-mobile Danger Sidekick, phone, pager, or other wireless device. Use Redirector to redirect a copy while retaining who it's sent to so that you can reply to the sender if you want to."
• Address Book to CSV Exporter by Antonio Lorè. "This Mac OS X utility allows the user to export his own Address Book in a CSV file (Comma Separated Value) that suits the 'Import contacts' function on GMail just following three steps."
• Cyber-Info WebMail Notify supports 21 different webmail sites, including aol.com
• ePrompter for Windows. ePrompter lets you check up to eight AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo or POP3 email accounts simultaneously -- anytime, anywhere, online or offline (dials on schedule).
• HTTPMail is a project to document the HTTPMail protocol used for Hotmail. It also aims to allow other mail clients to use Hotmail. The first way this is done is with an HTTPMail/POP3 proxy server. You can connect to the proxy server with POP3 and check your Hotmail account. (Not for the average end user yet)
• MailForward by System Support Products, Inc., "allows you to forward mail from up to 20 Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo! or standard POP e-mail accounts to any e-mail address. Mail Forward works by accessing your Microsoft Hotmail In Box or POP mailbox and forwarding each piece of mail through your SMTP mail server. As each message is successfully forwarded, it is cleared from the Hotmail In Box or POP mailbox."
• POP3Hot lets you check Hotmail or MSN accounts via regular POP client. Also lets you send via Hotmail.
• Web2POP by JMA Software allows you to download your webmail via a standard POP client. Supports many different webmail services.
• ZinCheck Mail

Web based:

• Redpin offers e-mail addresses (also has domain-wide e-mail, web, and blog hosting) for your business or website. POP/IMAP, authenticated SMTP, and webmail!
• HushMail free or premium web-based encrypted web-mail accounts.
• PurpleTurtle.com
• email-login tool by Charlie Huckel assists you in making a bookmark for your Hotmail or usa.net account, so you don't need to login, instead just select the bookmark! (only use on your own computer!)
• Hotmail from Microsoft. Also lets you check mail from other pop accounts.
• InvisiWebMail offers secure Web/WAP mail using RPK/PGP/SMIME protocols.
• mailandnews.com not only lets you collect mail from your regular POP3 accounts, but also lets you collect mail from your IMAP4 accounts, as well as letting you use conventional POP3/IMAP4 clients to collect your mail from mailandnews.com!
• MauiMail
• NetAddress by usa.net. Also lets you download your mail via pop client.
• WordWalla multilingual email offers free web-based accounts.
• Yahoo! by Yahoo. Also lets you check mail from other pop accounts. (also lets you download your Yahoo mail via a regular POP3 e-mail program if you signed up via Yahoo! Online)

Other directories and information: (see news://news.fastmail.fm/webmail.misc newsgroup to discuss webmail providers)

• Email Users Handbook: A Beginner's Guide by Grant Burns, published July 2002 covers web-based e-mail accounts (Hotmail, Yahoo, Netscape, and Mail.com) as well as desktop based programs (Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express, and Juno).
• A Short Guide to Free Email
• Free Email Providers Guide
• Free Email Address Directory
• Infinite Ink's IMAP Service Providers includes a growing list of free and reasonably-priced IMAP service providers

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