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wANCO tHE sANE · Jul 17, 2002, 11:03 PM

No one has CLEARLY addressed this topic, so here it goes. Does anyone know of any good ones? Specifically, an email address that I can access with Microsoft Entourage or Outlook? I know hotmail.com, (yahoo.com no longer offers free POP Mail) but I get a LOT of junk mail from hotmail... anyone recommend a good free email service that lets you access it through Entourage/POP?

Also, does anyone know of any alternatives to iDisk? Like an online storage type of thing?

And finally, where's a good place where I can host my images? I'd go with tripod or geocities, but they put an image block on any images you have when you try and type the HTML anywhere else other than a geocities/tripod page.

Any help is appreciated. <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

gorickey · Jul 17, 2002, 11:05 PM

You could always turn to trusty "Spymac" and get a Spymac E-mail account. Afterall, it has Webmail and Entourage access, forwarding, alot of space, etc....haha!

@mac.com

@spymac.com

Close enough! Who knows how long that site will be around though.

[ 07-17-2002, 11:18 PM: Message edited by: gorickey ]

dawho9 · Jul 17, 2002, 11:29 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by wANCO tHE sANE:
No one has CLEARLY addressed this topic, so here it goes. Does anyone know of any good ones? Specifically, an email address that I can access with Microsoft Entourage or Outlook? I know hotmail.com, (yahoo.com no longer offers free POP Mail) but I get a LOT of junk mail from hotmail... anyone recommend a good free email service that lets you access it through Entourage/POP?

Also, does anyone know of any alternatives to iDisk? Like an online storage type of thing?

And finally, where's a good place where I can host my images? I'd go with tripod or geocities, but they put an image block on any images you have when you try and type the HTML anywhere else other than a geocities/tripod page.

Any help is appreciated. <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" /> <hr /></blockquote>How much space are you looking for? I may be able to help out with the e-mail issue.

As for on-line storage, I'm not too sure about that one. I offer some on-line storage options using Novell's iFolder Storage, but that is really for PC's and not Mac's.

Or you can look around. Just about everyone offers free e-mail, the real question is how reliable is it. The more reliable, usually means it costs more.

dw9

wANCO tHE sANE · Jul 17, 2002, 11:49 PM

Well, for the email thing, maybe about 5mb of storage is more than enough for me. I also found a place wher ei can store my data: kturn.com

anyone have any comments about kturn.com?

so far it looks good and all.

thanks for the suggestion gorickey. i'll try and remember spymac if i don't find anything else

-wanco <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

ringo · Jul 18, 2002, 12:17 AM

Looks like you can get 1MB free storage space here:
<a href="http://ranchoweb.com/" target="_blank">http://ranchoweb.com/</a>

kidtexas · Jul 18, 2002, 12:27 AM

if you have broadband, don't forget you can always do picture storage on your own computer - i do it and it works great. my parents have a cable modem and i run my mail server off of that - also works great (the school i am at got pissed at me for having a mail server)

Hinson · Jul 18, 2002, 01:20 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by wANCO tHE sANE:
No one has CLEARLY addressed this topic, so here it goes. Does anyone know of any good ones? Specifically, an email address that I can access with Microsoft Entourage or Outlook? I know hotmail.com, (yahoo.com no longer offers free POP Mail) but I get a LOT of junk mail from hotmail... anyone recommend a good free email service that lets you access it through Entourage/POP?
<hr /></blockquote>You might want to look at fastmail.fm. There free service is rather nice if you like free IMAP access and Web access without POP. You can get a few more goodies with a basic membership for a one-time fee of $15, or you can get even more, including POP access, for $20/year.

I've been trying it out with the free account, and so far so good.

-Jay

wANCO tHE sANE · Jul 18, 2002, 11:32 PM

Thanks for all the help people...

well, I found a imag ehosting place... I took soem time to go around the forums and took a look at where most of your sigs were hosted... the one that I found was members.maclaunch.com they let you link to images, which is a good thing

just to let you all know....

-wanco <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

[ 07-18-2002, 11:41 PM: Message edited by: wANCO tHE sANE ]

macvillage.net · Jul 19, 2002, 09:09 AM

Can't help out to much, but I can with email:

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No online storage to match iDisk.... will look into it though. I know everyone is looking hard for something.

Surfer · Jul 19, 2002, 09:23 AM

well you can try my free e-mail service! e-mail address will be @macgo.net and you get 5MB of free space, WAP access, and soon POP3 access.
I guarantee that you will not recieve any junkmail from us!

more info at <a href="http://www.macgo.net" target="_blank">www.macgo.net</a>

Hope that helps!

thunderous_funker · Jul 19, 2002, 01:02 PM

Does no one use the email that you get from your ISP? The only thing i use free email services for is registering for web sites or software so i don't get junk mail in my REAL account. I never even check my free email, they're just a red herring.

I can't remember the last ISP I had that didn't offer multiple email accounts and free web space.

Why are people so lost about this? Am I missing something? Are you all stealing bandwidth from somewhere?

DigitalEl · Jul 19, 2002, 01:12 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by thunderous_funker:
Does no one use the email that you get from your ISP? The only thing i use free email services for is registering for web sites or software so i don't get junk mail in my REAL account. I never even check my free email, they're just a red herring.

I can't remember the last ISP I had that didn't offer multiple email accounts and free web space.

Why are people so lost about this? Am I missing something? Are you all stealing bandwidth from somewhere?<hr /></blockquote>Same here, except I think many like the "cool factor" of having their @mac.com address and are looking for something equally cool to replace it with. It may not exist, without paying for it.

Yeah, it's easy to go back to @worldnet.att.net, but damn that's ugly.

<img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />

thunderous_funker · Jul 19, 2002, 01:30 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by DigitalEl:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by thunderous_funker:
Does no one use the email that you get from your ISP? The only thing i use free email services for is registering for web sites or software so i don't get junk mail in my REAL account. I never even check my free email, they're just a red herring.

I can't remember the last ISP I had that didn't offer multiple email accounts and free web space.

Why are people so lost about this? Am I missing something? Are you all stealing bandwidth from somewhere?<hr /></blockquote>Same here, except I think many like the "cool factor" of having their @mac.com address and are looking for something equally cool to replace it with. It may not exist, without paying for it.

Yeah, it's easy to go back to @worldnet.att.net, but damn that's ugly.

<img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" /> <hr /></blockquote>Ah, the quest for the email handle that defines me as a person...

Since I typically don't think along those lines I forget that it matters greatly to some.

Well, you can always setup your own mail server and have whatever handle makes you tingle

Dan Szwarc · Jul 19, 2002, 01:31 PM

Heck, I found a place that will hsot your site up to 800MB with unlimited email accounts, blah, blah, blah, plus your own domain for the same $100 Apple wants.

<a href="http://www.highspeedweb.net/sp_hosting.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.highspeedweb.net/sp_hosting.shtml</a>

There is no guarantere that the price won't go up after two years, but neither is there from Apple.

It's a full web site and everything.

macvillage.net · Jul 19, 2002, 03:59 PM

ISP email addresses stink because if you change ISP's you lose the address. That's how AOL keeps their millions of customers. That is why some people want to pay to keep @mac.com addresses.

My yahoo address has been the same for years now.

wANCO tHE sANE · Jul 19, 2002, 04:35 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by macvillage.net:
ISP email addresses stink because if you change ISP's you lose the address. That's how AOL keeps their millions of customers. That is why some people want to pay to keep @mac.com addresses.

My yahoo address has been the same for years now.<hr /></blockquote>I'm just really curious... I used to have a yahoo address, but I always get these emails that I suspect has a virus within them (eh, I'm on a Mac so I'm not really worried) because the email is around 125K in size.... I left yahoo because of this and all this other junk... did you get any thing like this also?

-wanco <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

macvillage.net · Jul 19, 2002, 08:53 PM

Never.

No spam either. I use my own email over the past few years, but occasionally use yahoo. Never had any problems.

Face Ache · Jul 20, 2002, 02:48 AM

Until I switched to iTools all the images I posted here were hosted at <a href="http://www.applelinks.com" target="_blank">www.applelinks.com</a> anyway (free).

I guess I'll switch back. I like those guys better anyway. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

.mac will just be the sign of a fabulous income for the wealthy amongst us.

wANCO tHE sANE · Jul 20, 2002, 02:46 PM

I guess you were luck macvillage.net

or I somehow gave my email addressaway and don't remember it....

Thanks face ache, I book marked that page for future reference..

devNevyn · Jul 21, 2002, 08:08 PM

Sorry, I didn't see this topic before I posted my own. Anyhow, here's what it said, and it might help some....

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I found a nice alternative to .mac, if what you want is email adresses and web space. This thing here gives you a domain name, one gigabyte of storage, unlimited number of email adresses (as long as the bandwidth usage doesn't go over the limit - 20GB/month), PHP, CGI...
<a href="http://www.funkyhost.com" target="_blank">www.funkyhost.com</a>

The thing you don't get, though, is the Finder integration. I heard somewhere, though, that OS 10.2 was getting something like ftpfs, using ftp storage kinda like an iDisk.

The price for the funkyhost is $99 per year. Same as .mac, next year.
[email protected] would be neat.

So, my question to all of you out there: anyone else got any alternatives?
Anyone knows if its possible to setup a webdav server somewhere and trick the OS to use that instead? (so you get the iCal and stuff)

Just my two cents. Or $99, actually.

amsalpemkcus · Jul 22, 2002, 09:41 AM

This seems pretty good.

MyRealBox.com
10 MB email storage.
POP3 and IMAP clients can be used as well. Will be cool to configure os x mail.app for this. I will do this shortly. There is a calendar feature as well in MRB that I havent used so far.

N.B: The lesson that I have learnt from the itools experience is to have an email forwarding address separate from a mailbox address. Just my .02$. So even if the mailbox goes "$" your forwaring address remains the same. Try Bigfoot.com for a free email forwarding service. Hope that helps!
The only negative point is that they use this service to test new versions of NetWare

[ 07-24-2002, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: amsalpemkcus ]

Surfer · Aug 1, 2002, 06:03 PM

Regarding SPAM, I did a test the other day and signed up for a Hotmail account and already after a day I had 20 SPAM messages. I have now had my account for two weeks and it has 447 SPAM messages!! The funny thing is that I have never used my hotmail address or given it to anyone.

Just wanted to say that I gurantee that I will never send spam on my service!! I hate SPAM!!!