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ean_p
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06/05/2008 23:08
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best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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Hi
what is the best free e-mail system to adopt when travelling , having regard to system capacity and availability etc ?
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Re: best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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GoogleMail.
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Stingo
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07/05/2008 08:09
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Re: best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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That or hotmail or yahoo mail
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GoogleMail.
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Agreed
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Been using Yahoo mail for years.. no worries
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jonic
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07/05/2008 09:34
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Re: best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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Used hotmail for 6 years. No probs. Even better now with livemail.
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Yahoo has a new web interface which is very good (drag and drop etc) been using it for years - great.
Also got a hotmail account - again livemail now allows drag and drop so its just like using MS Outlook.
Both excellent and seem to have effective spam filters.
Jonny
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I have my own email address with my own incoming mail server but I use Gmail (Google mail) to act as my outgoing mail server. That way I have a seperate back-up of all my sent emails. Excellent spam filter. Last time I tried Livemail I found it a bit clunky whilst using on a marina wi-fi network, but it had just been launched. I'm sure it's improved somewhat.
You could also consider using Thunderbird. You install it on your machine like a normal email client (a la MS Outlook). Then when you don't have internet access on your laptop you can replicate Thunderbird and its contents on a memory stick, go into an internet cafe, plug it in and use as if you were on your own computer. When you're done, you save and unplug, plug back into your laptop and it syncronises.
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Just a note on Hotmail
MANY companies still dump hotmail emails due to excessive spam problems (Unfairly imho as the main problems were a few years ago)
So, really would avoid that one.. gmail, yahoo etc.. no real worries.
Interesting thoughts above on yahoos new interface.. personally I prefer the old one.. but each to their own.
Joe.
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nickrj
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07/05/2008 15:09
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Re: best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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Gmail hands down - I've been using it since 2004 (beta period). I have 2gb's of space used, 6gb free and over 12,500 emails. I route all my mail through them for their spam filtering - Their 'basic' html interface is good too, for when you're on those sketchy WIFI links in the middle of nowhere, just trying to see if anyone wrote you.
(Unfortunately) I don't work for Google.
n.
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If you use Thunderbird, it is very easy to configure it to access a gmail account.
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ean_p
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07/05/2008 21:13
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Re: best free e-mail service to use when traveling?
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thanks for the info.......will give gmail a look me thinks !
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Foxy
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07/05/2008 23:53
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If you have web space (easy enough to get free nowdays) look at using google applications. If you do, you can also use imap email which means that all your mails are on all of your pcs and the web server at all times. Handy if you need someone to refer to something on a desktop machine at home (as opposed to pop3 which downloads the email onto your machine) Works really well.
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I am not sure it is best but I use 'mail2web.com' in Internet cafes. As I go away from 3 to 6 months of the year I leave my at home account running and access it using this system.
But I am not an expert. I just do it this way because I know how to do it and it works.
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If you do, you can also use imap email which means that all your mails are on all of your pcs and the web server at all times.
All you say is true, and for most people IMAP is good. But be aware, if you have big volumes of mail and slow connections, then IMAP can be a real pain in the neck because it is constantly working to synch mail rather than just downloading it. It also means that you will relentlessly eat up your server space unless you religiously delete unwanted mail or move it to a local box - which defeats the object of IMAP. I sometimes occupy over 1Gb. Our IT dept forced a change to IMAP which has been a real nuisance to me, I far preferred POP.
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Grehan
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08/05/2008 11:25
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mail2web is good and we used it for years - to access POP3 accounts via the web (on a cyber cafe machine for example). But G-Mail has pretty well replaced that need because you can set it up to harvest emails from all accounts, not just @gmail.com ones and it's excellent. As noted elsewhere we're inherently suspicious of hotmail and yahoo accounts because so much spam comes from there.
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I vote for Google mail too. When you get your address of joe.bloggs@google.com you can actually use joe.bloggs@gmail.com. It works just as well. Gmail also works well on a mobile phone as you can download a little application so data transfer is minimal and excludes adverts.
TudorSailor
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Another vote for mail2web, I also have a hotmail account but tend to use the mail2web to access my normal account more often. (keep hotmail just as a back up these days)
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