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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Calum on 25 June 2002, 14:43

Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 25 June 2002, 14:43: 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.
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 June 2002, 20:43: www.bobhub.zzn.com (http://www.bobhub.cjb.com)
get your own address @bobhub.zzn.com

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 June 2002, 20:49: 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 (http://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 ]
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: voidmain on 25 June 2002, 22:14: So you are a "Microsoft Bob" then.
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 June 2002, 22:23: uhh...no. The Bob Hub is hosted on Apache on Linux.
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: voidmain on 25 June 2002, 22:27: Ahh, so your web based email does not go through an MS IIS server then?
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 June 2002, 22:38: 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
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: mulac on 25 June 2002, 22:53: 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!
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: voidmain on 25 June 2002, 23:17: Hey Calum, thanks for the link. I signed up for an account too.
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 25 June 2002, 23:25: top cool! :D 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...
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 27 June 2002, 01:09: 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...
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: voidmain on 27 June 2002, 01:35: I noticed the same thing earlier today.. Up since 1998, down 1 day after Calum signs up.
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Kintaro on 28 June 2002, 19:42: "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
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: the_black_angel on 28 June 2002, 19:57: A man is not a camel
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: DaFrog on 2 July 2002, 18:36: You could always sign up for free e-mail on my site, http://www.nothotmail.org (http://www.nothotmail.org)

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

</endplug>
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: choasforages on 2 July 2002, 18:40: or howabout kmfms.org
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: DaFrog on 3 July 2002, 04:58: if kmfms.org even worked....
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Master of Reality on 3 July 2002, 10:27: I have never had a down day with beer mail. its great.
The forum at linuxmail.org doesnt even have a linux board??

[ July 03, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: sporkme on 4 July 2002, 15:54: http://www.usps.gov/ (http://www.usps.gov/)
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Kintaro on 4 July 2002, 16:51: quote:
Originally posted by DaFrog:
You could always sign up for free e-mail on my site, http://www.nothotmail.org (http://www.nothotmail.org)

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

</endplug>

Hey, how do you get toplevels like foo so for example i could get a toplevel like MES or somthing?

Would you get me a vhost of foo as in X11.FOO if i asked really nice!
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: pkd_lives on 18 July 2002, 01:03: In amongst all the dross there seems to be one or two good providers, but I have not checked them out.

Hope it helps you some, or at least gives you a few more to try (and get screwed by).

http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm (http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm)
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 18 July 2002, 02:06: actually, linuxmail.org has come through really well, and has been fine for weeks now after a rocky few days at the start there!
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: choasmaster on 18 July 2002, 02:48: i use hotmail, nothotmail, kmfms.org and adelphia.net for my mail. i think that the wonderful people at ximian need to get evoluotoin to interface with hotmail like lookout express does
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 18 July 2002, 03:05: well i think the nice servers at hotmail should be mercilessly firebombed and any attempt to integrate an open source project with a Microsoft or .net program or "service" should be boycotted until it literally dies of starvation! :D
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: choasmaster on 18 July 2002, 03:18: iknow that calum, but it would be a better solution then say going out tio the msn website to check my mail, and does that mean that you are boycotting mono???
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: Calum on 18 July 2002, 03:28: fuck's mono? i don't know what that is...

also, a better alternative would be to not have a hotmail account. Actually, i have one still, so i can use it for instant messaging (but i do not use MSN for that)

also, i fucking use windows for internet! so i can hardly complain! :D
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: choasmaster on 18 July 2002, 03:33: mono, it is the gnome projects opensource implentation of .net
check it out at www.go-mono.com (http://www.go-mono.com)
Title: A good web based email provider???
Post by: sporkme on 19 July 2002, 06:55: mybudweiser.com

you get an @budweiser email