The Best Free email clients??

So..... you're looking for an email service, not a client? Are you trying to confuzzle me?

Just a little.

That's what I meant, service. I'll probably get DSL before summer, however I want a reliable email service if anything should happen to my paid services. A backup if you will.

fastmail.fm

I have a Yahoo account....I get no spam, yet It's only after you plaster you email address all over the internet do you start getting spammed.

I found a email that has POP service and its free. And right now, I have over 133 messages, all of which are spam.

They are all flooded with spam. How do you think they can do it for free?
And these spammers are making it almost impossible to block them. They use meaningless characters in their email addresses and they change them at will. One day I get email from dfjerje9@yahoo.com, the next day its apojdejfkajsi@yahoo.com. The only sure fire way to block them is to block everyone not in your address book. But, then what happens if a long lost friend finds your email address? Dumb fricken spammers. Get a life and stop spamming me!

Hey, I didn't mean for the messagebord to put links to those email addresses, they were only examples. Sort of like spamming the spammers, I guess.

But, then what happens if a long lost friend finds your email address?

There's this new thing...it's REALLY cool!... It's called a phone book.

Yes, spammers suck. Blocking spam (at the server level) is pathetically easy. I don't see why more ISPs don't do it.

Aye, if you ever opt to start paying for your email account, take an isp that has a spam filter. Trust me, it's worth it. Mine catches 99% of it and the rest gets intercepted by Thunderbird.

Orion, could you enlighten me on a an easy way to stop spam at the server level...I assume you mean ALL spam by that? It's just that at work we opperate just about every anti-spam mechanism I know of, and yet we still have quiet a lot that gets through...blackhole lists, filters etc, and the darn things still come up with ever more devious ways to get in! Some of our "customers" have still sometimes had 100's of spam mails a day on occation (despite us blocking 1000's more!).

What's the secret?

BTW craeonics...99% isn't much good when your e-mail account is getting 1,000's of spam hits a day as some of our 25,000+ e-mail addresses get, as that still means a significant hassle for the user to deal with.

hotmail recently revamped their service. i get nooo spam. and msn comes with my dsl access

Nothing in life is free!, for a company to supply a free eamil service they would have to make money somehow, hence they will sell a list of email addresses, to anyone willing to pay, just to make money, which means:-

Free Email = Tons of Spam!

Sput: Do you run sendmail? If so, I'd be happy to share my config with you. Between DBL, my own blacklists (access.db), Subject line filters, and an antivirus scanner...I see maybe one spam every week and a half to two weeks on my servers.

Your milage may vary. It all depends on what kind of flexibility your users need. For instance, one of my sendmail servers' blacklists blocks ALL traffic from both China and Brazil. SpamAssasin for sendmail (using milter) is another great tool that does wonders.

Orion - nope, we run MS Exchange, though external mail comes in through a unix based mailhub running the various blacklists. The further filtering is done on the Exchange cluster running a McAfee product (I think it is at the moment...I'd have to check that)

We can't block any group of servers en mass easily as we're operating in an academic environment with lecturers and students dealing with people from anywhere in the world. For instance we have 100's of chinese students who need to contact relatives etc back home. I think your solution would be way to proscriptive to be acceptable here. Never mind. ta anyhow.

Try http://www.mail.com.

I dont use it, but a friend of mine recommended it.

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