# Best Email
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 3, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080 "2004-08-03T03:22:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Mithgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithgard)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/1 "2004-08-03T03:22:53Z")
Can someone recommend a GREAT email service other than hotmail and yahoo?
Naturally I want it to be reliable, have some space to save emails and such
The reason im asking, is because im trying to get an email with 'mith@…com"
and all the current or main services already have that email taken
any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/2 "2004-08-03T04:06:06Z")
If you’re willing to spend a few $/year, I can recommend [Mailsnare](http://www.mailsnare.net/). I’ve been using them about two years. They have been very reliable and provide excellent support.
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### Author:  [@citrus\_x\_paradisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citrus_x_paradisi)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/3 "2004-08-03T04:08:06Z")
It seems clear that the OP is looking for a free e-mail client. I recommend [Mail.com](http://Mail.com), they have many domains (the @\_\_\_\_.com) bit to choose from, so you’re likely to find one unregistered.
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### Author:  [@Mithgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithgard)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/4 "2004-08-03T04:08:31Z")
> [@Ex\_Chemist](#):
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> If you’re willing to spend a few $/year, I can recommend [Mailsnare](http://www.mailsnare.net/). I’ve been using them about two years. They have been very reliable and provide excellent support.
oh yeh thats the other thing I wished to post…it would have to be Free 😛
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### Author:  [@citrus\_x\_paradisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citrus_x_paradisi)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/5 "2004-08-03T04:12:25Z")
I thought as much. 😉 If you’d like some dork cred, find an invite code for Gmail and sign up. It’s a great service, and will likely be available without the hassle of being invite-only in the near future.
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### Author:  [@Mithgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithgard)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/6 "2004-08-03T04:17:53Z")
> [@citrus x paradisi](#):
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> I thought as much. 😉 If you’d like some dork cred, find an invite code for Gmail and sign up. It’s a great service, and will likely be available without the hassle of being invite-only in the near future.
I would love to get Gmail…find some what? how?
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### Author:  [@citrus\_x\_paradisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citrus_x_paradisi)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/7 "2004-08-03T04:26:59Z")
To join, a Gmail member has to e-mail you an invite. We get invites sporadically-- I myself haven’t gotten one in awhile. I’m not sure if Google is still giving them to its members regularly. If you look around on messageboards, I’m sure you’ll find someone with an invite to spare.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/8 "2004-08-03T04:47:02Z")
Moved to IMHO.
- **xash**
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/9 "2004-08-03T04:50:30Z")
Thing about Google Mail is that the username cannot be less than 6 characters.
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/10 "2004-08-03T05:18:24Z")
Just out of curiosity, what’s wrong with yahoo mail?
I’ve been using it for years, and I’ve had no trouble with it.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/11 "2004-08-03T05:24:08Z")
> [@citrus x paradisi](#):
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> To join, a Gmail member has to e-mail you an invite. We get invites sporadically-- I myself haven’t gotten one in awhile. I’m not sure if Google is still giving them to its members regularly. If you look around on messageboards, I’m sure you’ll find someone with an invite to spare.
I’ve had an account for over a month and have yet to get an invite.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/12 "2004-08-03T11:26:59Z")
The GMAIL invites seems to have dried up. I bet Google is at capacity, and are adding servers.
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### Author:  [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/13 "2004-08-03T12:56:30Z")
Try [Rediffmail](http://www.rediff.com). It too offers 1 GB mail space free and 10 MB mail attachments. The only probelm is the pop-ups. And the spam.
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### Author:  [@jfortun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jfortun)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/14 "2004-08-03T14:46:55Z")
I have gone through my own ISP, MSN, Yahoo, Mailblocks and most recently Gmail. Mailblocks is a decent service but I found it to be quite slow. Gmail is interesting but despite the 1 gig of storage it feels too constrained.
So now I am using Fastmail (fastmail.fm) and I love it. It is the power user’s email system. Email is pretty important to me so I am willing to pay for flexibility and features. Rather than list all of the features I recommend you check out their website. The service lives up to it’s name- the web interface is extremely fast.
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### Author:  [@Mithgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithgard)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/15 "2004-08-03T16:00:27Z")
> [@jfortun](#):
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> I have gone through my own ISP, MSN, Yahoo, Mailblocks and most recently Gmail. Mailblocks is a decent service but I found it to be quite slow. Gmail is interesting but despite the 1 gig of storage it feels too constrained.
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> So now I am using Fastmail (fastmail.fm) and I love it. It is the power user’s email system. Email is pretty important to me so I am willing to pay for flexibility and features. Rather than list all of the features I recommend you check out their website. The service lives up to it’s name- the web interface is extremely fast.
yeh i dont have a prob with yahoo, its just that im trying to get a certain name with it and its already taken ☹
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### Author:  [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-email/258080/16 "2004-08-04T00:55:20Z")
I don’t use it anymore because I have Cox now, but I loved [OperaMail](http://www.operamail.com/)