Free/Good Pop3 Email Account?

drdroid · 11-13-2003, 02:46 PM

Anyone know where I can get a good/free pop3 email account?

Andrew Benton · 11-13-2003, 03:33 PM

You're asking a lot. There's free and there's good, but is there a good, free pop3 provider? Try http://www.hotpop.com/index.jsp but don't be expecting something for nothing.

drdroid · 11-13-2003, 04:26 PM

I was just looking to use something that could be brought up on Pine, that's all, maybe IPMAP. I dunno, whatever I could use in command line Linux would be good.

dukeinlondon · 11-14-2003, 03:54 AM

yahoo.co.uk provides pop3 access as standard(free). You can use it with anything. I don't know whether they also provide smtp relaying, since I use my ISP's.

The reason I specify yahoo.co.uk is that they seem to have an offer slightly different from yahoo.com (more storage apparently) so other things might differ.

Ginux · 11-14-2003, 04:17 AM

Visit http://www.fepg.net/
You only have the imbarassment of choice

Ginux

/bin/bash · 11-14-2003, 04:33 AM

I've been using this one for several years www.softhome.net and it's pretty reliable. I also just got started using hotpop like posted above.

trickykid · 11-14-2003, 08:31 AM

www.freeshell.org

Only stipulation is you have to send a Dollar in. This keeps spammers out or from trying to get free pop accounts with their system. If you only going to spam, most won't waste their time in sending a simple dollar. Plus it sort of helps support the servers, etc.

You also get webspace and also access to a shell account too..