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Why do I Need a Free Email Account? Find out the benefits of registering for one or more free email accounts. Bigfoot The Bigfoot basic service offers free Web based email. You can have up to 25 messages per day forwarded to another address. They use anti-spam lists to help filter out unsolicited email. College Club Students can join College Club for free and get free email, instant messaging, chat and message boards all geared toward college students. ePrompter A small program that allows you to easily keep track of up to eight email accounts simultaneously including AOL, AltaVista, email.com, GO, Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA, Yahoo, ZDNetOneBox and hundreds of other email domains. Eudora Mail Web Email Full featured and fast Web-based email from Qualcomm. Includes vacation reply and POP-mail access as well as many other features. FastMail.FM FastMail.FM is a great alternative to some of the other services like Yahoo and Hotmail that seem to be getting too big for their (our) own good. The free guest level account offers plenty of features and 10 megs of storage. Hotmail This is one of the fastest and most reliable of the large free email services. Their spam blocking works well, but hotmail addresses almost seem to attract spam. They allow 2 megs of storage for free accounts. HotPOP HotPOP offers a free POP mail (like your ISP mail account) or forwarding service. They are supported by an opt-in advertising list to which you subscribe when you set up your account. Lycos Mail Lycos Mail features spam filtering, wireless access to email, and six megs of storage. LetterClick LetterClick allows you to send elegent or professional looking email which looks more like a letter. mail2web Mail2web allows you to check your POP email account on the Web. You can use it without registering. One of my favorite uses is to delete messages that clogging my inbox. Mail.com Mail.com provides most of the bells and whistles of the other big sites plus you can choose from hundreds of domains for your address. They allow 10 megs of storage. MariaMail MariaMail has a very clean and easy to use interface. At this posting it is a very new service which means you have a good chance at getting the email prefix that you want. many of you will be able to get your first names as I did instead of something like gogo7666345@mariamail.com. POPchecker.com Check mail on your POP email account with this Web-based service. you can also send mail. The system seemed a little slow when I tested it, but it worked well. Stealth Message Stealth Message allows you to send private encrypted and anonymous email for free. Yahoo Mail When you sign up for Yahoo Mail you are also registered for all of Yahoo's free services. You need to pay attention to their messages to users, as they have been known to make big changes in their privacy policy. They have done ridiculous things such as turning on the settings for all email newsletters of people who had already unselected them. ZipLip.com This is a free email service that emphasizes privacy and security. Your message is encrypted and it stays on their server until read. Recipients get a notification and come to the site to read the message. More Free Email Accounts If you are looking for a more comprehensive list of free email accounts, please check out this list from our Email Guide, Heinz Tschabitscher.
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