A good web based email provider???

[Calum]

look, i've done a lot of searching but i cannot find that thread about "what's the best email provider, so i'm asking it again.

I need an email provider that will not fuck me around at all, that will stay online, will not start charging after a couple of months, will allow attachments of 2 or 3 megabytes, has a 6Mb or so inbox, has decent blocking and anti-spam geatures, and is hosted on a non microsoft machine.

What are my best bets? i am sick of telling everybody my new email address every few weeks.

[Master of Reality]

www.bobhub.zzn.com
get your own address @bobhub.zzn.com

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Master of Reality]

Actually... zzn.com is running Microsoft IIS... but my website is on tripod which runs on Apache and cjb.net is running Apache on FreeBSD.

My main e-mail is a beer.com.
The site www.beer.com is running Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.1.2 on Solaris 8

they give you 5 megs, attachments can be as big as you want (or maybe just 5 megs... I never send anything bigger than 5MB so i dont know)
you can filter out e-mail addresses that contain certain words, or even filter out subjects with certain words.

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[voidmain]

So you are a "Microsoft Bob" then.

[Master of Reality]

uhh...no. The Bob Hub is hosted on Apache on Linux.

[voidmain]

Ahh, so your web based email does not go through an MS IIS server then?

[Master of Reality]

Only the e-mail is microsoft based.... but nobody has an account there...yet. I can and do use my Apache FreeBSD based e-mail for my webmaster service usually though

[mulac]

well i got fed up of all of this rubbish and i looked at a bunch of places and they all had snags that i didn't like, in desperation i typed "linuxmail.org" into my browser, and lo and behold. 5Mb inbox, filtering, 2Mb attachments! perfect, plus it runs apache on linux. I like.

So case closed...
thanks though!

[voidmain]

Hey Calum, thanks for the link.  I signed up for an account too.

[Calum]

top cool!    nice to know they get your seal of approval. My last web based email provider has just gone totally offline without any warning at all, and i suspect they will never resurface again, so i am anxious to avoid such mishaps in the future...

[Calum]

VoidMain, go and try to sign in to your new linuxmail.org account! i dare you! those bastards are supposed to have been up since 1998, and suddenly ONE DAY after i sign up, they are totally fucked. HA! That's a new record. I am beginning to think that there's an internet god out there whom i have failed to appease or something...

[voidmain]

I noticed the same thing earlier today.. Up since 1998, down 1 day after Calum signs up.

[Kintaro]

"Monday, a day like no other, some say life should easy, one man, changed the whole world..."
- The Living End

"I need to cut my fingernails, and i avoid relections and theres no help to my cause" - Frenzel RHOMB
"Shut your fucking face uncle fucka" - T&P

Anyway M0R and Void i have taken a liking to the "Ahhh its the Mr Hell show" which is canadian, any viewers???

Funny show

"I see the city and it isnt what it used to be,
A millin houses go up and down in front of me"
- The Living end

[the_black_angel]

A man is not a camel

[DaFrog]

You could always sign up for free e-mail on my site, http://www.nothotmail.org

We do ssl at https://foo and we also have encrypted pop3 and imap servers.

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