Comparison of webmail providers
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The following tables and gallery compare general and technical information for a number of webmail providers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
[edit] General information
| Name | Owner | First public release date | Cost (US$) | Storage | Attachment limit | Languages supported | Browser(s) supported | IMAP/POP3 support7 | Account expiration on inactivity | Unique features | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Fuse | www.alternativefuse.com | 2010 July | Free | Unlimited | 20 MB | English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Italian | All | Neither, Email forwarding offered instead. | Never | Featuring; apps for live radio, video chat, games, international news, translator, and more. Advanced interactive calendar and address book. | |
| AOL Mail | AOL, USA | 2004 Aug 23 | Free (ads) | Unlimited | 25 MB | 26 | All | Both | 3 months | ||
| BlueTie | BlueTie, Inc. | 1999 | $5.99 per user/month (ad free) | 10 GB | 25 MB | English | IE 6,7 and 8, Mozilla 2.0+, Safari 3.0+ | Both | No | ||
| ContactOffice | ContactOffice Group sa | 2000 | Free and paying accounts | 100 MB - 10 GB | 25 MB | English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Swedish | All | Both | 90 days(free), no (paid) | ||
| Rediffmail | Rediff, India | 1997 | Free and paid service  399 (US$8.78) pre year for POP3 and 50 (US$1.1) per month for mobile |
Unlimited | 25 MB | English , Hindi, हिन्दी, Indian languages, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Nepali | ALL | Both, 399 (US$8.78) for POP3 access |
60th Day (Mails clean up), 90th Day (Deactivation of account Permanently) | Supports sign-ins with a Google, Yahoo! , Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and Mobile Sync and can store files, videos, and pics in Indrive. | |
| Excite | IAC Search & Media, USA | 1994 | Free | 1 GB | 25 MB | English | No | ||||
| FastMail.FM | Opera Software Australia Pty Ltd. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
1999 Jan | * Free (text ads in web interface and email signature) * $4.95 yearly (Ad Free) * $19.95 yearly (Full) * $39.95 yearly (Enhanced) (Also various other service levels in 'Business' and 'Family' group accounts) |
25 MB - 15 GB (depending on service level) | 10 MB - 50 MB (depending on service level)2 | English Interface. All languages supported in message display/composition. Right to left directionality supported. | All | IMAP for all accounts, POP3 (and SMTP) for all paid accounts | 120 days (free) None (all paid accounts) |
One time passwords.[1] Encryption of email delivery.[2] Different From and "envelope from" addresses (no "on behalf of ..." issue)[3] Full user control of spam filtering. Backscatter spam detection.[4] Deletion of selected attachments in saved messages. |
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| Gmail | Google, USA | 2004 Apr 1 | Free (Text ads seen when viewing mail, not in messages) | More than 7.5 GB (storage quota is being continually and slowly incremented)[5] |
25 MB[6] | 52 | All | IMAP, POP, POP+TLS,HTTPS, Microsoft Exchange | After 9 months, at Google's discretion.11 | Account verification via SMS or voice call required for new signups in some countries.[7] Messages grouped into "conversations" "Normal" view available via Settings. Labels instead of folders. |
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| GMX Mail | United Internet AG, Germany | 1997 Jan | Free (ad-mails and ads in web interface) | 1 GB [8][9] | 20 MB[8] | POP3, IMAP | 6 months for free account | ||||
| Hushmail | Hush Communications Ltd Vancouver, Canada |
1999 May | Free (no ads) $34.99 year (Premium) |
25 MB (free), 1 GB+ (premium) | 20 MB[10] | English | IMAP ($14.99) | 3 weeks | |||
| India.Com Email | Zee Entertainment Enterprises India, PMC USA |
2010 | Free (ads in interface) | Unlimited | 20 MB | English | All | Both | 12 Months | Useful tools like Queuing Attachments so you can upload conveniently in the background. | |
| Lavabit | Lavabit LLC, USA | 2004 June | 2 Free options and 2 Paid | 128MB ($free,no ads) - 1GB ($free, ads) | 32-128 MB Message size varies according to option |
English | All | Both (SSL optional) | 4 months, no (paid) | ||
| Lus Mail | www.lus.com | 2009 July | Free | 1 GB | 10 MB | Multiple language | All | Both | 3 Months | ||
| LuxSci | Lux Scientiae, Inc., USA | 1999 Dec 1 | $10 monthly | 5+ or 15+ GB | 200 MB | Any/Unicode | All | IMAP, IMAP+SSL, IMAP+TLS, POP, POP+SSL, POP+TLS, Alternate Ports | No | Mobile Sync, Email Encryption, Custom Filters, HIPAA Compliant Email, Archival | |
| Lycos | Daum, Korea | 1995 Jan | Free Premium: $19.95 yearly |
5 GB of storage | 35mb per email | Any | |||||
| Mail.com | United Internet | N/A | Free (ads in interface) or $3.95/month or $19.95/year | Unlimited | 50 MB10 | English, Spanish, French | Both (for paid accounts) | After 12 months (free accounts) | organizer | ||
| Mail.ru | Mail.ru, Russia | 1998 Jan [11] | Free (ads in interface) $5 monthly (without ads) |
Unlimited | 30 MB6 | Russian | POP3 | 3 month | |||
| MailXXL.com | MailXXL.com | 2008 | Free, fees for SMS / Phone calls | 100Mb | 15Mb | German | All | POP3, IMAP, Web | 12 months, Webmail logins count | ||
| Mail2World | Mail2World, Inc., USA | 2000 Jan | Free & $19.95 (Premium) | Unlimited | 50 MB | 13 languages | Free: None Paid: Both | 30 days | |||
| Mymailshare | Mymailshare, USA | 2009 Nov | Free (by invitation only) | Unlimited | 20 MB10 | English | All | POP3 | Never | ||
| MyWay | IAC Search & Media | ? | Free | 125 MB | 10 MB | English | All | No | Deactivates in 60 days Deletes after 90 days | ||
| MobileMe | Apple Inc, USA | 2008 July | $99 / £59 per year (60-day free trial) | 20 GB - Unlimited shared between file storage and email (user customizable ratio). | 4 | Safari 3+ / Firefox 2+ / IE 7 8 | IMAP (POP3 optional) 9 | Never | |||
| NewMail.ru | NextMail.ru | 2001 | Free, Paid available | 50Mb+ Unlimited increment | 20Mb | Russian | All | POP3, IMAP, Web | 4 months, POP3 and Webmail logins count | ||
| Opolis | www.opolis.eu, Austria / Bahrain | 2009 | Free | Unlimited | 125MB | English, German, Russian, Czech | All | No | No | No | |
| Ovi Mail | Nokia, Finland | 2008 Dec | Free (provided by Yahoo) | 1 GB | 20 MB | 15 languages | Internet Explorer, Firefox, Ovi Suite | IMAP (mobile only) & POP | As of May 2011, content is provided by Yahoo.[12] | ||
| Qip.ru | Qip.ru | 1999-2011 | Free (ads in interface, ad at end of email) | Unlimited | 20 MB | Russian | All | Both | 6 months, only Webmail logins count | ||
| Rackspace Email | Rackspace, USA | 1999 | $2 per mailbox/month - (5 user minimum) | 10GB | 50 MB | 8 | All | Both | Never | ||
| Runbox | Runbox AS Oslo, Norway |
1999 | $49.95 per year for email, email hosting, and web hosting (30-day free trial). Accounts without web hosting from $19.95 per year. | 10 GB + 1 GB file storage[13] | 100 MB | English, Norwegian | All | IMAP4 and POP3 with SSL support | Never | ||
| Seznam Mail | Seznam.cz | 1998 | Free | 10Mb, by sending SMS from Czech cell network can be increased to 2Gb | 13 MB | Czech | All | POP3, POP3+SSL, IMAP, IMAP+SSL | 6 months | ||
| Vmail.me | www.vmail.me | 2010 | Free | 1GB | 25 MB | English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Spanish | All | POP3+SSL, IMAP+SSL | 9 months | Virtual keyboard | |
| Windows Live Hotmail | Microsoft | 1996 July 4 | Free with ads $19.95 yearly without ads1 |
Unlimited | 25 MB/10 GB with SkyDrive | 48 | All | POP3, Microsoft Exchange | 270 days (none with Windows Live Hotmail Plus) | ||
| Shtrudel M@il | Shtrudel | 2008 April 2 | Free with ads | 5 GB + 2 GB file storage[14] | 10 MB | English, German, Italian, Hebrew | All | No | Never | If discarded by virus scanner | |
| Yahoo! Mail | Yahoo! | 1997 Oct 8 | Free (ads) $19.99 yearly without ads (Plus version) |
Unlimited5 | 25 MB (basic with ads in interface and e-mails) 25 MB (Plus version) |
27[citation needed] | Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome,new version will not work with Blackberry OS | POP3 (In most countries, or with Plus); or with YPOPs! | 4 months[15] | ||
| Zoho | ZOHO Corporation | 2008 Oct 13 | Free (personal)
Free for up to 3 users ("Lite" business account) |
Unlimited (personal) 1 GB ("Lite") |
10 MB | Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English(US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | Firefox 2.0+, IE 6+, Chrome | Both | 120 days (for free accounts) None (for paid accounts) |
Integrated with Zoho web application suite Supports sign-ins with a Google, Google Apps, Yahoo! or Facebook account |
Note 1: Hotmail Plus, Outlook Live, MSN Premium, and Windows Live Hotmail
Note 2: Additionally there are monthly total transfer ("bandwidth") limits.[16] e.g., 80 MB/month for the free account (as of September 2009).
Note 3: Help information in Russian only.
Note 4: Subscription-based upgrade is in development
Note 5: Yahoo! Mail had announced free, unlimited storage space for all its members, starting May 2007.[17]
Note 6: Mail.ru mailboxes start out at 10 GB; if the user needs more space, they can increase storage 2 GB at a time by solving a CAPTCHA[18]
Note 7: In addition to the POP3 support listed here, almost all Web mail providers can be accessed with POP3 using the third-party tool FreePOPs.
Note 8: "You may also use Internet Explorer 7 or later with Windows XP or Vista, but some features may not be available."[19]
Note 9: Only IMAP is enabled by default, but POP access will be enabled upon request[20]
Note 10: Help in Mail tour.[21]
Note 11: Gmail accounts may or may not be deleted after 9 months of inactivity. There is no guarantee it will remain after then.[22]
[edit] Features
| Service name | Automatic forwarding | E-mail client access14 | client E-mail for other server | Integration with IM service | Domain Name customization | Interface script technique | Virus scanning | Filters out emails with executable attachments | Custom "From:" Address | Address modifiers (subaddressing) | Server hosted public keyring (for encryption) | Shared key encryption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Fuse | Yes | No[23] | Yes | Multiplatform Instant Messenger | JavaScript/Ajax | Yes (ClamAV) |
No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| AOL Mail | No | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes0 | AOL Instant Messenger | Yes1 | JavaScript/Ajax | Yes (McAfee) |
No | ? | No | No | |
| Bigfoot Communications | Premium account only | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
XMPP | Yes | HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| BlueMail | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
XMPP | Yes | HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| EuMX | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | Yes (ClamAV) |
? | ? | No | No | |||
| FastMail.FM | Yes | Yes (IMAP)7 |
Paid accounts (POP3, hotmail) |
XMPP | Enhanced and group (Business/Family) accounts | HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax (Optional user supplied custom css+Javascript) | Paid accounts (ClamAV) |
Configurable with user filtering rules | Yes Editable while composing + saved personalities |
Yes userid followed by "+" followed by tag available on all accounts; subdomain addressing (e.g. <tag>@<userid>.fastmail.fm) available on paid accounts |
No | No |
| Gmail | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP) SSL/TLS supported SMTP restricted18 |
Yes (POP3 only) |
Google Talkbeta (XMPP), AOL Instant Messenger | Yes (Google Apps) |
HTML/JavaScript/Ajax2 | Yes |
Yes, including .exe files in zip files | Yes, limited. Feature restricted to preconfigured addresses. Addresses not registered in advance with Gmail are blocked. |
Yes userid followed by "+" followed by tag |
No | No |
| GMX Mail | No | Yes (POP3, IMAP17, SMTP) SSL/TLS supported |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | Yes | HTML/JavaScript/Ajax | Yes (McAfee and Symantec) |
? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Hushmail | No | Extra cost8 | ? | No | $1.99/$3.99 monthly through Hushmail Business | Java or HTML | No but the text based email stops most viruses, PGP encryption | ? | Yes, unlimited email aliases for Premium members | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Lavabit | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) SSL supported |
No | XMPP | Only for premium accounts | Yes (ClamAV) |
No | No | ? | No | No | |
| LuxSci | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP, LDAP) SSL/TLS supported Alternate ports supported Mobile Push Email |
Yes (POP3 or POP3+SSL) Bulk email migration via IMAP or IMAP+SSL |
No | Yes | JavaScript/Ajax or Simple HTML16 | Yes, Basic ClamAV or Premium Multi-Vendor Filters | Yes, with Premium Filtering | Yes | Yes userid followed by "+" followed by tag available on all accounts | Yes | No |
| Mail.com | No | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) SSL/TLS supported |
Yes (POP3 only) |
Google Talk (XMPP) | No | HTML/JavaScript/Ajax2 | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Mail.ru | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
custom | ? | HTML/Ajax (Beta) | Yes (Kaspersky) |
? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Mail2World | Platinum accounts only | Yes (POP3, IMAP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | Yes | HTML/JavaScript/Ajax | Yes | ? | Yes, using aliases. | ? | No | No |
| Mymailshare | Yes | Yes (POP3) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
Yes | No | HTML/JavaScript/Ajax | Yes | Yes, if discarded by the virus scanner | Yes | No | No | No |
| MyWay | No | No | No | No | No | HTML/JavaScript/Ajax | No | N/A | Yes | No | No | No |
| rediff | No | Plus members only | ? | Rediff Bol | Yes | JavaScript/Ajax2 | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Rackspace Email | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes, unless packaged in a .zip file | Yes Editable while composing + saved personalities |
? | No | No | |
| Runbox | Yes | Yes (IMAP, POP, SMTP) SSL/TLS supported |
Yes (POP3, hotmail, Gmail) SSL/TLS supported |
XMPP, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, ICQ, IRC[24] | Yes | HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Ajax | Yes (ClamAV) |
If discarded by virus scanner | Yes Selectable while composing; saved identities |
Yes userid followed by "+" or "-" followed by tag |
No | No |
| Seznam.cz | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) SSL/TLS supported |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | No | HTML/JavaScript | Yes (ESET-NOD32) |
? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Thinkpost.net | Yes | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) |
Yes (POP3 only) |
No | Yes | Yes Unique app for Wireless BlackBerry sync with Outlook | Yes |
? | ? | ? | No | No |
| Vmail.me | No | Yes (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) SSL/TLS supported |
No | No | No | HTML/JavaScript/ CSS/Ajax | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
| Windows Live Hotmail | Yes | Partial (POP3, SMTP)3 |
Yes (POP3 only) |
Windows Live Messenger | Yes4 | HTML/JavaScript/ CSS/Ajax | Yes | ? | Yes | userid followed by "+" followed by tag[25] | No | No |
| Yahoo! Mail | Plus members only10 | Plus members only In some countries free accounts (POP3 only)10 |
Yes (POP3 only) |
Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger | $35 yearly | HTML/JavaScript/ CSS/Ajax | Yes (Norton AntiVirus) |
? | only Plus members15 & only 10 addresses | Plus members only alias userid (chosen by user) followed by "-" followed by tag |
No | No |
| Zoho | Yes | Yes (POP, IMAP, SMTP) | Yes (POP) | XMPP, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger | Yes (business accounts) | Ajax | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Service name | Automatic forwarding | E-mail client access14 | client E-mail for other server | Integration with IM service | Domain Name customization | Interface script technique | Virus scanning | Filters out emails with executable attachments | Custom "From:" Address | Address modifiers | Server hosted public keyring (for encryption) | Shared key encryption |
Note 0: Through AOL Easy Transfer
Note 1: Through AOL My eAddress
Note 2: HTML interface available for legacy browsers or users with Javascript disabled
Note 3: Since March 12, 2009, POP3 technology rolled out to Hotmail customers worldwide. Additionally, the proprietary DeltaSync-protocol is available.
Note 4: Through Windows Live Custom Domains
Note 7: IMAP only for free and Member accounts, IMAP and POP for Full and Enhanced
Note 8: IMAP access available for $14.99 for the first year and $29.99 yearly thereafter
Note 9: Forwarding and POP3 access with "Platinum" ($34.95 yearly) and above
Note 10: Through Yahoo! Mail Plus ($19.99 yearly);[26] or through YPOPs!
Note 12: Free of charge, but web-mail only.
Note 14: Most mail services that do not support POP3 access can be accessed through the FreePOPs mail proxy software.
Note 15: Yahoo! Mail Plus ($19.99 yearly) features[27]
Note 16: Mobile-compatible, simplified HTML interface available for legacy browsers, users with Javascript disabled, and users with mobile devices.
Note 17: IMAP only available for paid accounts.
Note 18: Gmail restricts the FROM field to registered addresses. E.g. Disposable addresses forbidden.
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- ^ "Opportunistic SSL/TLS encryption on outgoing emails". FastMail.FM. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/01/29/opportunistic-ssltls-encryption-on-outgoing-emails/.
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