Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost 623
BobPaul writes "Following behind Yahoo Mail's recent upgrade to 100MB of free storage, and trailing behind GMail's 1GB (last mentioned here), ZDNet reports that Hotmail will soon boost email storage as well. 'The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.' Another interesting tidbit from the article: 'Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room... According to an e-mail sent to iWon users, Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage.'"
Re:If you build it.... (Score:5, Informative)
aventuremail (Score:4, Informative)
Re:competition (Score:1, Informative)
Re:All the storage I need. (Score:4, Informative)
Unless you've got a static IP (or good DDNS), and your ISP doesn't do port filtering, you can't get at that storage from just anywhere. Gmail's available from anywhere you've got a recent web browser.
Additionally, Gmail has pretty darned good search capabilities into that storage (it *is* Google, after all).
About the only thing I can really complain about Gmail is that it's so heavily reliant on Javascript. It'd be really nice if it worked through a text-based browser.
Re:Does anybody use all that space? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Too little too late (Score:1, Informative)
1. The "Oops... the system was unable to perform your operation. Please try again in a few seconds." dialog. I had this all afternoon once and was unable to access my mail at all.
2. The group by discussion feature.
3. The fact that it only works with certain browsers (because it's written completely in javascript).
Re:Whats the diffrence? (Score:5, Informative)
Many people are utterly startled when they find out hotmail has filters.. You can even apply them to old mail, not just new incoming messages.
Re:aventuremail (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Whoever you use for your free email, thank Goog (Score:3, Informative)
Re:aventuremail (Score:4, Informative)
Aventure Mail Error
We are currently not accepting new registrations. Accounts can be purchased in our store (http://www.aventuremail.co.uk/store) in the mean time.
Re:Will Yahoo upgrade accounts for other countries (Score:3, Informative)
Re:All the storage I need. (Score:4, Informative)
in my case its exim4+squirrelmail+noip.com
gmail really cannot compare
Re:competition (Score:2, Informative)
Re:gmail availability... (Score:2, Informative)
You can notice Gmail is in beta though (some minor but often-used features such as remote access and simple blocking are missing), but its still much better than anything out there. I think the beta stage is mostly about training their spam classifier.
Hint: What's "gmail invite" in icelandic? finnish?
The best webmail service offers NO storage (Score:3, Informative)
No account sign-up, no password, just type in any user account name you can think of and check the email for it. Works great for the bazillion or so sites out there that have "free registration" but require a valid email address. All emails are deleted after a few hours.
Re:Yeah, but Gmail's better (Score:3, Informative)
It is important to note that GMail is *FULL* of JavaScript and is unusuable w/o it. For me that's completely acceptable as my mobile Internet doesn't support Javascript and no one should anyway.
If they would switch to something that didn't require JavaScript (and wasn't just so damn sluggish) I would also hop on the bandwagon. Until then I will stick to my standard email setup.
Re:Look what happens (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yeah, but Gmail's better (Score:3, Informative)
SBC (Score:2, Informative)