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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.