META: There are an endless number of free email services to be found all over the web but they may differ in services and therefore it is up to you to select the right one for yourself.
The Internet has a plethora of free email service providers and with tough competition among them; they vie to provide the best services to users by including better features on a constant basis. You will be surprised at the amount that you can get for free from a prompt interface, mail filter facilities and many other useful features at no added cost. You may even be tempted to have more than one free email account that you could assign to various categories of mails that you receive.
Some of the top ten email service providers include –
Gmail from Google, which offers almost unlimited storage and an efficient interface that allows you to check your mails effortlessly. Accessing gmail from any kind of email programme is feasible assuming you have POP and IMAP software. The advertisements can be seen on one side of the emails and do not cause a hindrance when your are reading or sending an email.
Yahoo Mail also offers unlimited storage besides which it provides RSS news feeds and instant messaging. Yahoo Mail Classic is another service offered by Yahoo. Along with quite a good spam protection feature they also have an HTML editor that is great for writing emails.
Free services with limitless storage is offered by AIM mail from AOL which also has a fantastic interface and excellent spam protection. Features such as smart folders and labels are sadly not offered but it does offer standard POP and IMAP access.
FastMail offers an astral web interface, IMAP access plus other useful features but unfortunately it provides only limited storage of only 2GB and not a very good Spam filter with the free to use emails accounts.
GMX Mail is another consistent free email service that offers a rich interface along with POP and IMAP access, a good Spam filter, protection against viruses and a 5GB of storage. The organising of mails is however, needed here.
Inbox.com provides its clients 5GB of online storage and an efficient web mail access along with POP for your email programme. IMAP accessibility however, is not supported and some improvement is needed in relation to the organising of mails.
A user-friendly interface, total security and 5GB of storage is offered free with Windows Live Hotmail email services. On the down side getting mail to go past the folder level is non-existant and it does not give you POP and IMAP access. The spam filter available could also do with some improvement.
A good spam filter, organising your mail with labels along with several short cuts are all features that are offered by Zenbe Personal. They only however, offer IMAP access for the inbox.
Zapak Mail, is not the most efficient mail service around, despite offering unlimited storage, POP access, free email service and a few background images.
Gawab.com is a fast and reliable free email service that offers its users 10GB of online storage along with POP and IMAP access. A complete mail facility along with no offer of labels is available either.
If you are new to the Internet and do not know which email service providers are good as well as reliable, this list of free email service providers would help you select one for your free email account. You could choose to have one or more free email accounts as suits your requirement. They will also provide you with a free email address.
