Types of Email Service

WEB-BASED EMAIL

Web-based email services enable you to access your email via your web browser. You log into your email account via the Web to send and retrieve email. Free services usually feature banner ads, and often pop-ups as well.

POP3 EMAIL

POP email services store your email on a remote server. You can connect to the server at any time and download your mail into your favourite email software package. Generally, with POP3 mail, you download all new messages in one operation onto your local computer.
TIP: You can use a web interface to access your POP3 account when you're travelling.

IMAP EMAIL

IMAP email services offer extremely powerful control over your email. Like POP3 mail (above), IMAP works with your email client to retrieve email from a remote server. Unlike POP3, IMAP lets you have granular control over your email, since you can view message subjects before downloading them, and choose which emails to download on a case by case basis. IMAP will also allow you to synchronize your mail folders between your local computer and the IMAP server of your email provider, so that you will see the same folders and messages wherever you happen to log into your mailbox.

EMAIL FORWARDING

Email forwarding services automatically redirect all email sent to your new email forwarding address to an existing email address that you specify, in essence passing the messages on instantly to their destination. Because forwarding services don't store your email, you'll need to have an alternate email address to act as the receiver account.
 

• INOMAN
  Send, receive, and organize email with a free web-based email service. Features a personal calendar and customizable contact groups.
  www.inoman.com

• Hotmail
  Send, receive, and organize email with Hotmail, a free web-based email service from MSN. Features a personal calendar and customizable contact groups.
  www.hotmail.com
   
• Yahoo! Mail
  Yahoo! Mail provides free, customizable email, including PhotoMail online picture sharing, spam protection, filtering, and multiple email account management.
  mail.yahoo.com
   
• Gmail
  Web-based email service from Google that allows users to search their message archive. Gmail offers over 2897 megabytes of free storage.
  gmail.google.com
   
• YouSendIt
  Allows users to email large files (up to 1GB) quickly, securely, and easily.
  www.yousendit.com
   
• Mail.com
  Provides personalized, web-based email. Also offers premium service upgrades.
  www.mail.com
   
• Mail2Web
  Web-based email application which allows users to access accounts anywhere.
  www.mail2web.com
   
• Netaddress
  Provides email accounts.
  www.netaddress.com
   
• Lycos Mail
  Provides email, voice mail, and instant messaging services from Lycos.
  mail.lycos.com
   
• Postmaster
  European free web-based email service. No configuration hassles, full functionality.
  www.postmaster.co.uk
   
• ZapZone Network
  Provides a free web-based email solution and service to web sites that want to offer free email to their users.
  www.zzn.com
   
• Walla!
  Provides free web-based email services, includes 3 GB account space.
  www.walla.com
   
• FastMail
  Provides Internet email access as well as the ability to work with third-party email programs.
  www.fastmail.fm
   
• ThatWeb
  Offers one-step gateway access to one's different email accounts anywhere.
  www.thatweb.com
   
• Mailinator
  Free, receive-only email service to mislead spammers.
  www.mailinator.com
   
• 30Gigs.com
  Offers a 30GB mailbox, filtering, and address book.
  www.30gigs.com
   
• AOL Mail
  Provides free AOL email account. Users can check email and compose new messages online.
  aolmail.aol.com
   
• FirstName.com
  Offers addresses with your first name as the domain name, such as you@darrensmail.com.
  www.firstname.com
   
• Doramail
  For all doraemon fans.
  www.doramail.com
   
• Abcde...
  Offers free email accounts with the world's longest alphabetical domain.
  www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
   
• E-MailAnywhere.com
  Offers a consolidated Web-based e-mail service for business and corporate users.
  www.e-mailanywhere.com