17 July 2008 ~ View Comments

Neither Yahoo! nor Live, GMX Mail is wise

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I am sure everyone out there is happy with their existing email clients. Whether it is Gmail, Yahoo!, Live Hotmail, AOL, Rediffmail, indiatimes, lycos, or may be the newly available Ymail and Rocketmail domains on Yahoo!.
Out of all those Gmail and AOL are the most flexible one and hence provides you the ability to access email through your choice of Email program like Outlook and Thunderbird etc. Both gives you POP and IMAP facilities free of cost with an unlimited online mail storage.
All others except Live Hotmail, gives you limited or no flexibility on Free account for POP and IMAP facility. Though Live Hotmail also you can access through outlook connector to get access in Outlook but not in other clients. But I have give it the credit as still it provides you some option.
You will have to buys Premium accounts to get that facility on other services (Yahoo! including Ymail and Rocketmail, Rediffmail and Indiatime.com etc.). I am not that fan of using any of those services when other free options are available. And they provide nothing fancy and hi-fi to buy that kind of thing.

So now the question is, “Is there a better service which provides all of that and is FREE?”
The answer is, “Yes! It is GMX Mail.”

What GMX Mail gives you:

  1. Excellent web interface same as Desktop clients like Outlook and Thunderbird.
  2. Free POP and IMAP facility if you want to access your mail box through email programs like Outlook.
  3. Address book, Calendar, 1GB file storage.
  4. Best of all : You can access your existing Yahoo! (Classic) and Live Hotmail (Basic) email through Mail Collector in you GMX inbox. No other service provides that kind of service for Yahoo! and Hotmail Free accounts.
  5. Spam protection and other stuff which all others provide.
  6. 1GB of online storage you can use to store files, mp3, photos etc.
  7. To learn about GMX Mail more, you can visit their help center which contains lots of videos explaining the features.
Though there are other ways of doing it:
  1. How to get Yahoo! Mail in Outlook for Free?
  2. Cheat Yahoo! to get POP3 Access for Free
But GMX does it for you. So in my personal opinion, GMX is even better than any other service available so far except the fact that it gives you only 5GB of space. Which should not be a problem if you are using Outlook or Thunderbird etc.
    Have you ever used GMX, what are your views about it? Did you face any issues? Do you have any feedback to share with me? Or is there any other service you use and liked it even more than this?
    And yes, if you liked whatever I said, try GMX mail yourself.

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    • Mario Ruprecht

      GMX has been in this bsuiness for a very long time in Germany, Not sure whether they now have a different offer outside their home country. GMX is very popular here although IMAP is only offered for paying customers. And the retention time for messages is not so long, they might disappear after 3months if not explicitly stored in different folders.

    • Mario Ruprecht

      GMX has been in this bsuiness for a very long time in Germany, Not sure whether they now have a different offer outside their home country. GMX is very popular here although IMAP is only offered for paying customers. And the retention time for messages is not so long, they might disappear after 3months if not explicitly stored in different folders.

    • Anurag Bansal

      Oh that’s good information Mario.
      But I think in US, there is no restriction on IMAP. I haven’t configured it yet. Will update about it if I find it otherwise.

      Thanks
      Anurag Bansal

    • Anurag Bansal

      Oh that’s good information Mario.But I think in US, there is no restriction on IMAP. I haven’t configured it yet. Will update about it if I find it otherwise.ThanksAnurag Bansal

    • Anurag Bansal

      Hi Mario,
      I just checked my account. In fact I was using IMAP on Thunderbird to access my account on GMX. It is free in US I think.
      May be it is the same thing as Yahoo! is free for POP in UK but it costs in US.

      Thanks
      Anurag Bansal

    • Anurag Bansal

      Hi Mario,I just checked my account. In fact I was using IMAP on Thunderbird to access my account on GMX. It is free in US I think.May be it is the same thing as Yahoo! is free for POP in UK but it costs in US.ThanksAnurag Bansal

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