Looking for a stable webmail

hello,
i'm looking for a safe & stable mail/webmail account, free or not.
i would like to avoid big evil providers like yahoo or hotmail.
any tip?

thank you for any help.

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

On 17 Nov 2005 05:59:32 -0800, vphooff@yahoo.fr wrote:

>i'm looking for a safe & stable mail/webmail account, free or not.
>i would like to avoid big evil providers like yahoo or hotmail.

I use (one of the domains of) fastmail. I mainly use their imap
interface but occasionally I use the web. I haven't had any problems.

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Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

thank you. it looks quite good and serious. lots of options!
is it stable? server down, mails delayed or lost?

thanx

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

On 17 Nov 2005 07:58:10 -0800, vphooff@yahoo.fr wrote:

>thank you. it looks quite good and serious. lots of options!
>is it stable? server down, mails delayed or lost?

I have had one occasion where there was some doubt about a message that
seemed to have been sent but didn't arrive. The sender (on yahoo) didnt
have it in their outbox either, so it was not clear.

I have never had any outage during the houres I used it.

--
Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

thank you Peter, it sounds very good ! :)

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

On 17 Nov 2005, Peter Peters wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2005 07:58:10 -0800, vphooff@yahoo.fr wrote:
>
> > thank you. it [FastMail.FM] looks quite good and serious.
> > lots of options! is it stable? server down, mails delayed or
> > lost?
>
> I have had one occasion where there was some doubt about a message that
> seemed to have been sent but didn't arrive. The sender (on yahoo) didnt
> have it in their outbox either, so it was not clear.
>
> I have never had any outage during the houres I used it.

FastMail.FM recently had a ~55 hour outage for some users
(including me) so bear that in mind when you're choosing your
mail service provider. The good news is that they did not lose
any mail during this outage.

I've done a lot of research on mail service providers and I'm
collecting my research here:



My focus is IMAP service providers, but pretty much all IMAP
providers also offer webmail. The nice thing about IMAP is that
you can use any IMAP client to access your mail -- you can even
use multiple clients to access your mail at the same time!

Good luck finding a good mail provider,
Nancy

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Nancy McGough ~ ~
IMAP, pine, procmail, data deflexion, infinity, and more
> > > Please keep the discussion in the group < < <

Re: Looking for a stable webmail

Nancy, what a great database! unfortunately too late to hezitate as i
already switched to FastMail and sent my new address to everybody. but
it seems to be a serious mail provider anyways, although 10mb is short,
especially when i will be away from the net...

thank you