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Gmail (Google Mail)

Google’s free email service is Gmail (Google Mail), which comes with virtually unlimited free online email storage and spam filtering. Access to your emails via a web browser is very easy and when you read an email Google place adverts to the side of your email that relate to your emails content, like the ads you see in a Google search results screen. The Gmail account also provides a chat (instant messaging) facility. You can use either POP or IMAP to access your Gmail emails from your PC software like Outlook or other device.

Gmail can be found at http://gmail.google.com/

AIM Mail

AIM Mail is AOL’s free email service which comes with unlimited storage, spam filtering and chat features. You can even choose an email address that is more to your liking by selecting from a list of domain names so you also have some choice over what comes after the @ sign. Access to your emails via a web browser is very easy and you can use POP or IMAP to access your emails.

AIM Mail can be found at http://mail.aim.com

Yahoo! Mail

The Yahoo! Mail free email service comes with unlimited storage, spam filtering, RSS news feeds, SMS texting and instant messaging. Yahoo! Mail allows you to collect mail from additional POP accounts, and also allows you can send from these accounts. There is also an RSS news reader integrated into Yahoo! Mail. You can access your emails using POP but at the time of writing this article IMAP access was missing apart from iPhone Mail, so if this is important to you check the Yahoo! Mail information again.

Yahoo! Mail can be found at http://mail.yahoo.com/

Windows Live Hotmail

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you 5GB of online storage and web screens that looks and feels like Outlook. However, you cannot use either POP or IMAP to access your emails from your PC email application etc.

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail can be found at http://get.live.com/mail/overview

Inbox.com

The free email service from Inbox.com gives you 5GB email storage online and spam and virus protection. You can access your emails via POP, but IMAP access was not available at this time.

Visit www.inbox.com for more information.

FastMail Free Guest Account

FastMail provide a Free Guest Account email service, which is a reduced version of the paid for accounts. This service provides a web interface and IMAP access but not POP. Other restrictions are only 10MB storage space, a 40MB bandwidth/month limit, 45 day no activity period, taglines in emails and ads in the web interface.

The FastMail Free Guest email Account can be found at http://www.fastmail.fm/

Bluebottle Free email Account

Bluebottle offers email accounts that they claim is practically free of spam (using something called challenge/response filtering) and can be accessed via the web or by using POP with any email program. Their paid accounts allow you to access your emails also using IMAP. The free service provides 250MB of email storage.

The Bluebottle free email accounts can be found at http://www.bluebottle.com/

BigString.com Free email Account

The BigString.com free email account provides unlimited email storage and includes a number of features relating to sending emails such as email tracking etc which you might want to checkout. The free account does not provide POP or IMAP access, but their paid service does provide POP access.

The BigString.com free email accounts can be found at http://www.bigstring.com/

There are other free email service providers but the above should give you a good starting point and you could always search for more to see what new services may have been launched since this article was written.

If you are not clear on the differences between the POP and IMAP protocols then take a look at our article “What is POP3 and IMAP email?” in the Technology Information area of our website.

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