[Eug-lug] looking for free IMAP mail

[Dave Compton]

Hi Michael,

I've considered gmail but so far rejected it.  POP does not meet my
needs since it important to me to be able to access my e-mail from
multiple locations.  Gmail web access is a possibility but for me it has
some drawbacks that imap does not have:

1. It is incompatible with my current IMAP e-mail.  I would have to
handle currently archived e-mail with a different interface than the new
er gmail e-mail.  This problem gets worse if I later decide I want to
switch back.

2. As far as I know you can not configure messages sent from gmail to
appear to have been sent from a different address.  With IMAP, I can
forward e-mail with an address for a domain that I have registered to my
 IMAP account and then configure my e-mail client (thunderbird) to send
with the "from" address being the same address that the e-mail was sent
to.  I can do the forwarding to a gmail account but as far as I know the
"from" address has to be the gmail address.  I do know you can set a
"reply to" field but I would rather the gmail address did not appear at all.

3.  In principle it bothers me to have google reading my e-mail and
delivering advertisements based on my e-mail content.

So, for now, I am still looking for a good IMAP solution but if I don't
find that I might try gmail.

- Dave


Michael Miller wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> have you looked at gmail?
> 
> http://gmail.google.com
> 
> I've been using for years.  I will post a link below to the 3rd party
> client config how to list.  I believe all of them tell you to use POP
> via SSL.  It's not IMAP but it is free.
> 
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=12103
> 
> -Miller
> 
> On 4/20/07, Dave Compton <abcdave at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can any of you recommend a IMAP mail service?  I'm looking for something
>>  that is:
>>
>> 1. Inexpensive (ideally free)
>> 2. Reliable
>> 3. Secure
>> 4. High Capacity
>>
>> So far I have tried the following:
>>
>> 1. Fastmail (using this now but I would like to get more capacity)
>> 2. Yahoo IMAP (no secure access)
>> 3. AOL (unreliable)
>>
>> AOL looked promising but it turns out that some testing e-mail that I
>> sent never showed up - even if I used their web access.
>>
>> Thank you for any suggestions.
>>
>> - Dave
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