Twice as good as gmail...
Oct. 5th, 2004 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI forget how I first ran across the site, but somewhere around a year ago I found fastmail.fm, which offers a Web-based e-mail solution that, for $40 per year, will provide you with 2 GB of e-mail storage, 3 GB of monthly e-mail bandwidth, 250 MB of file storage, and 750 MB of file bandwidth. And that's without analyzing your mail to see what ads to display, nor holding on to mail even if you've deleted it, as with gmail. Considering how I have clients send me assignments via e-mail, that extra level of "privacy" is appreciated.
As an additional plus, I found out recently that if you enable HTML viewing through their Web interface, the default will disable graphics and forms, which tends to make such viewing a bit safer. This is in addition to a spam filter that -- well, I can't tell how well it works, because I don't know how many spam messages are sent to my inbox, except to say that only a handful of such messages get through... maybe a half dozen per month.
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously thinking of making some fundamental changes to the way I do e-mail, since when I am on the road, I do about 90% of my e-mail through the fastmail.fm site (though with a different domain name).
Cheers...
As an additional plus, I found out recently that if you enable HTML viewing through their Web interface, the default will disable graphics and forms, which tends to make such viewing a bit safer. This is in addition to a spam filter that -- well, I can't tell how well it works, because I don't know how many spam messages are sent to my inbox, except to say that only a handful of such messages get through... maybe a half dozen per month.
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously thinking of making some fundamental changes to the way I do e-mail, since when I am on the road, I do about 90% of my e-mail through the fastmail.fm site (though with a different domain name).
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-10-06 03:25 am (UTC)I use Hotmail Plus (Extra Storage) for £15 a year ($25 I presume) which currently offers 2GB mail as well, 20MB max attachment size, no ads, no mail scanning whatsoever, interface quite similar to Outlook -- and it is fully compatible with Outlook & Outlook Express as "HTTP" account type, too. Unlike fastmail.fm, however, it does NOT have dedicated file storage, well, MSN groups do, but max file size there is unfortunately 1MB, and storage size is 30. That said, so far I don't need it.
Quite a few people said "but it's from Microsoft". How stupid.
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Date: 2004-10-09 07:50 pm (UTC)I'm with you on Fastmail. I was very pleased with the upgrade.