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Email Information

Email Services for Popular ISPs Free Email Services

For your convenience, we have included some free email services offered on the Internet.  However, Timberland Regional Library System does not assume responsibility for your security while using any of the services listed below.  Library staff members are not trained on all of these email services, and therefore might be unable to help you. If you are new to email, check out the email tutorials on the Internet, Computing page.

Email Services for Popular ISPs

On the road? Can't get to your ISP account? Try one of the links below.

AOL Classic Webmail

Comcast

CompuServe

EarthLink
From the member center, select Web Mail.

Mail Start
Check any existing email account from any provider. The free version limits you to using it once a week.

Techline
Internet service provider for Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties in Washington State.

Web2Mail
Free service lets you pick up your email from anywhere in the world. No need to register.

Free Email on the Internet

There are many sites that provide Email accounts. These sites allow you to send and receive email from any computer with Internet Access.

Care2 Email
An environmentally conscious, free email provider - 10% of ad revenue is donated to environmental causes. Features include 100 MB storage space, 10 MB attachment capacity, lots of stationary, spam blocking, and mail filtering. No IMAP access or encryption.

Email addresses.com
A listing of over 1,000  free email services, including services in foreign languages.

FastMail
A great free email site with 10MB mailbox size, POP3 and IMAP access, and a powerful and flexible Webmail service. Provides a clean, intuitive interface and many domain names to choose from.

Google Gmail
Gmail is fast, includes free services that other Web-based mail services charge for, and provides 2 GB of free storage. The spam filter isn't configurable, but works well. It supports POP3 but not IMAP.

Mail.com
Provides 10MB of disk space and lets you create your own, unique domain name (like mad.scientist.com). Negatives are that there are lots of ads and no virus protection or spam blocking.

MSN Hotmail
Includes efficient anti-spam filters, works with Outlook and Outlook Express, and has some neat features like automatic reminders. Free 250 MB mailbox, no POP or IMAP access, and lots of ads in the free service.

My Way Mail
A clean, fast email service free of pop-up and banner advertising and with automatic spam filtering. It lacks secure messaging and POP/IMAP access.

TheFreeSite.com
Provides a list of General-purpose and specialized email services.

Yahoo Mail
One of the better free email services - secure and reliable with virus scanning, email encryption, and an automatic, effective spam filter. Provides 250 MB of storage and includes an intuitive interface. Lacks IMAP support and serves up many ads. Intellisync application synchronizes address book, calendar, and so on with a PDA or with organization software.

Revised 4/26/2006


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