Email Websites

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Webmail, Lycos, MARC, Gmail, Orkut, Yahoo! Mail, MobileMe, Hotmail, Comparison of webmail providers, Yahoo! Groups, Yandex, Sulekha, Rediff.com, Hushmail, Seznam.cz, Hybrid mail, Mail.ru, Zimbra, Spamgourmet, Mail.com, Zapak, ContactOffice, TrashMail, Mailinator, FastMail.FM, AOL Mail, Oddpost, GMX Mail, Runbox, BITNETS, Gmane, BlueTie, Whitemail, RocketMail, Lavabit, In.com, Ilkposta, Lux Scientiae, Eyejot, Mail2web, Gawab, BanglaCafe, BlueMamba, Thaimail. Excerpt: Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite. With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB, which is larger than many other mail services support. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of AJAX. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux. Gmail's log-in page (February 2011)The Gmail service currently provides more than 7 GB of free storage. Users can rent additional storage (shared between Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs and Gmail) from 20 GB (US$5/year) to 16 TB (US$4096/year). On April 1, 2005, the first anniversary of Gmail, Google announced the increase from 1 GB. Georges Harik, the product management director for Gmail, stated that Google would ..".