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Electronic mail, often abbreviated to
e-mail, email, or simply mail, is a store-and-forward method of writing,
sending, receiving and saving messages over electronic communication systems.
The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies to the Internet e-mail system
based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, to network systems based on other
protocols and to various mainframe, minicomputer or intranet systems allowing
users within one organization to send messages to each other in support of
workgroup collaboration. Intranet systems may be based on proprietary protocols
supported by a particular systems vendor, or on the same protocols used on
public networks. E-mail is often used to deliver bulk unsolicited messages, or
"spam", but filter programs exist which can automatically block, quarantine or
delete some or most of these, depending on the situation.
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AOL Mail
AOL Mail (sometime called AIM Mail) is a
web-based email (webmail) service provided by AOL. Its main competitors are
Gmail, MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. The "AIM" in the name stands for AOL Instant
Messenger, AOL's instant messaging program. AOL Mail is free and also features
an option for creating an email address for a custom domain.
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FastMail.FM
FastMail.FM is an e-mail service offered
by the Messaging Engine company of Parkville, Victoria, Australia. Its servers
are located in New York City with a backup in Norway. When first established in
1999, the service was intended to differentiate itself through the ease and
speed of e-mail transport and access. It offers a Webmail interface with free
and paid e-mail accounts accessible through POP3, IMAP, WAP, and SMTP for mail
delivery. Security features include use of SSL, virus scanning through Clam
AntiVirus, and spam filtering using SpamAssassin. A comparison of membership
levels can be found at Fastmail's pricing table.
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GMX Mail
GMX Mail is a free webmail service
provided by GMX (Global Mail Exchange). GMX was founded in 1997 and is now a
subsidiary of United Internet AG, a stock-listed company in Germany. In Germany,
Austria, and Switzerland, GMX offers a free webmail service called “GMX FreeMail”
which currently has about 10,000,000 active users in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. In November 2007, GMX launched an English language service called
“GMX Mail” with its own data center in the U.S.A. and a different range of
features than in the German language version. Like the German version, the
English version remains free of charge.
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Gawab Mail
Founded in 1999, Gawab.com is one of the
leading Web-based email service providers in the Middle East region. With over 5
million users, Gawab has a record of innovation. Gawab was the first to provide
email service in the order of 2 gigabytes before other email providers followed
suit (such as Gmail). Today, Gawab is amongst a small group of email providers
that provide single-page application webmail interface built on AJAX technology.
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Gmail
Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany
and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (webmail), POP3 and IMAP
e-mail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an
invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to
the general public. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically
increased the standard for free storage. Gmail currently offers over 6900 MB of
free storage (increasing approximately 3.348 MB daily), with additional storage
ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for US$20 to $500 per year. It has a
search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an internet
forum. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its
design, and has tens of millions of users.
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Gmane
Gmane (pronounced "mane") is an e-mail to
news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were
Usenet newsgroups, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Gmane is an
archive; it never expires messages (unless explicitly requested by users). Gmane
also supports importing list postings made prior to a list's inclusion on the
service.
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Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as
MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free webmail
service of the Windows Live brand provided by Microsoft. The web-based email
service was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia and launched in 1996. It was
one of the first free webmail services. Hotmail was acquired in 1997 by
Microsoft. The current version was officially announced on November 1, 2005 as
an update to Microsoft's existing MSN Hotmail service. After a period of beta
testing, it was officially released to new and existing users in The Netherlands
on November 9, 2006 as a pilot market. The world wide release was on May 7,
2007, and roll-out to all existing users was completed in October 2007.
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Hushmail
Hushmail is a web-based email service
offering PGP-encrypted e-mail, file storage, vanity domain service, and instant
messaging (Hush Messenger). Hushmail uses OpenPGP standards and the source is
available for download. Additional security features include hidden IP addresses
in e-mail headers. The free e-mail account has a limit of 2MB, and no IMAP or
POP3. Paid accounts have several hundred MB of storage as well as IMAP and POP3
access. If public encryption keys are available to both recipient and sender
(either both are Hushmail users or have uploaded PGP keys to the Hush keyserver),
Hushmail can convey authenticated, encrypted messages in both directions. For
recipients for whom no public key is available, Hushmail will allow a message to
be encrypted by a password (with a password hint) and stored for pickup by the
recipient, or the message can be sent in cleartext.
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Lavabit
Lavabit is a free e-mail service founded
in June of 2004 (originally as Nerdshack and Mailshack) intended to be a
privacy-sensitive alternative to Gmail. According to the Lavabit FAQ, "Lavabit
was founded... in response to Gmail. At the time, Lavabit’s founders felt Gmail
was a great service but that Google was actively violating the privacy of its
users by displaying ads related to keywords in their e-mail. Lavabit’s founders
also felt they could provide a higher level of service than the competition."
Lavabit prevents even the company's ability to access users' email accounts by
using asynchronous encryption. Lavabit offers free, ad-free accounts,
non-targeted ad-supported accounts, and two levels of paid accounts. Lavabit
currently serves over 91,000 customers.
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Lux Scientiae,
Inc
Lux Scientiae, Inc (LuxSci) is a secure
Web and e-mail hosting corporation founded in 1999 by Erik Kangas, Ph.D., an MIT
graduate. LuxSci is based in Massachusetts, and is a member of the Better
Business Bureau of Eastern MA, Maine, and Vermont.
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MARC (archive)
MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a
computer-related mailing list archive. It archives over 31 million e-mails from
over 2400 mailing lists, with approximately 320,000 new mails added per month.
The archive is hosted by the companies 10East (formerly called the AIMS Group)
and KoreLogic, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger.
MARC was founded in 1996 to serve as a unified archive of electronic mailing
lists, similar to what DejaNews (now Google Groups) did for Usenet. MARC uses a
MySQL relational database to store its messages and Perl to access the data. The
archive can be searched for mailing list names, authors, subject lines and
full-text of the e-mail messages.
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Mail.com
Mail.com provides consumers with web-based
e-mail services, which are accessible from any computer connected to the
Internet, anywhere in the world.
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Mail.ru
Mail.ru is the largest free e-mail service
of the Runet. The company started to operate under its present name on October
16, 2001. Before that time its brand name was owned by Port.ru. It is headed by
Dmitry Grishin. As of June 2008, its global Alexa rating is 22.
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Mail2web.com
mail2web.com is an E-mail retrieval
service started in 1997 by SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc, a private company
based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The service is used by over 16 million users
monthly in over 200 countries. In early 2006, mail2web.com launched a free
Microsoft Exchange service entitled 'mail2web.com Live' with mobile device
capabilities. The company already has a 9.11% share of Turkish club Fenerbahçe
SK which is worth around $580 million and is the main shareholder of the Turkish
service provider.
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Mailinator
Mailinator is a free disposable e-mail
address service created in 2003 by Paul Tyma, a software engineer at Google. The
idea is to let a user create a new e-mail address on-the-fly, whenever needed,
for instance while filling a form on a web site. Mailinator will accept mail for
any e-mail address within the mailinator.com domain, and allows anyone to read
it without having to create an account or enter a password. It is intended to
provide users with an anonymous and temporary e-mail address to help the
reduction of Inbox spam.
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Postini
Postini is an Electronic Mail Security
company, founded in 1999 and based in San Carlos, California, United States. On
July 9, 2007, Google announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to
acquire enterprise messaging security and compliance company Postini. Google
spent $625 million in cash for the acquisition. Postini is mostly used by
companies who manage their own email servers; the system filters email before it
reaches its destination inbox. The spam filtering provided is similar to that
used by Gmail.
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Runbox
Runbox AS is a private company providing
the e-mail service Runbox Mail Manager (RMM) globally. Runbox was founded in
October, 1999 by Hans Lysglimt, and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Runbox
works closely with, and is partially owned by, Linpro AS.
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Spamgourmet
The internet service spamgourmet has
offered disposable email addresses since October 29, 2000, as protection against
spam. The service is free, and is supported by donations and advertisements on
the website.
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Spamhole
Spamhole is a disposable e-mail address
service that allows internet users to avoid email address submission on the
Internet. It provides a way to keep one's true email address hidden by creating
a temporary one from which email is relayed to the true user's email, usually in
order to avoid spam. The service originated in response to the increasing number
of websites which use collected email addresses for commercial promotion /
advertisement interests. Typically, email boxes become increasingly congested
with this type of spam as the number of occasions the email address was
submitted increase. Many Internet users find this to be an annoyance and a
potential cause of an email becoming unusable. Spamhole solves this by providing
a single trustworthy site for users to submit their address on though one must
initially trust Spamhole not to make such use of collected addresses as well.
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Thaimail
Thaimail, which was the Thailand first
webmail email service found on 15th April 1997, is one of the most webmail
services in Thailand. It can be accessible from anywhere on the planet via a
standard web browser both in Thai and English. Thaimail Give mail for member
address E-mail : @thaimail.com
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TrashMail
TrashMail (TrashMail.net) is a free
disposable e-mail address service created in 2002 by Stephan Ferraro, a computer
science student at Epitech Paris which belongs now to the FERRARO Ltd.. The idea
was to create temporary email addresses to protect against spam mails. It mainly
forwards emails to a real hidden email address.
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Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based email (webmail)
service from Yahoo!. Inaugurated in 1997, Yahoo! Mail is the most-used e-mail
service in the world, serving over 260 million users. Currently, Yahoo! offers
two versions of Yahoo! Mail: an Outlook-like Ajax interface introduced in 2007,
as well as the traditional static-web-page "Yahoo! Mail Classic," which
continues the availability of the simpler 1997-2006 interface for the brand's
considerable installed base of users. In early 2008, Yahoo! offered unlimited
mail storage even to its non-paying users, in response to heated competition in
the free-webmail market segment.
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