Email Servers

Do you need another email account? It could be for business or personal reasons? Maybe you are starting a new venture and would like to keep your personal contacts separate from your business ones. Maybe you would like to begin selling or some sort of advertising or blogging business part time and an additional account would be great for all those offers and sites you may have to visit and input your email account information.

All of these reasons are valid reasons to have more than one account. But what should you look for in that next account?

What about the free accounts? Could they suit your needs?

Many free email servers are perfect for even most business needs. Many of these accounts offer lots of storage and lots of extras.

Here is a general look at some of those free email servers:

GMAIL

GMAIL is of course an email server offered by Google. It is also one of the leading servers.

It has a huge storage capacity. What does this mean? It could very well mean that you can keep all your messages forever if you wish.

Another nice thing about Gmail is that it automatically sorts your messages by groups. Say you get messages from a certain person or site many times in one day. Gmail will group these together. This makes them easier and speedier for you to read.

Do you like to chat? You can automatically chat with other Gmail friends.

Plus, if you like to check your email messages via a mobile device, GmAil is accessible for that as well.

Another thing many consumers like about Gmail is the Gmail notifer you can download. This software once enabled will instantly alert you of incoming messages.

Yes, if you wish to configure Gmail with your built in outlook program, you can do that as well.

YAHOO

Yahoo's email server also has a limited amount of storage space for your messages. Again, this is great for those of us who likes to keep messages forever or almost forever.

Yahoo also has the very popular built in chat program.

A new feature that Yahoo has is the built in text message program which allows you to send text messages from your computer to anyone's cell phone. It is easy, too. Just type "T" or click the words text message under new. Then enter the phone number in the TO field. Type your message and now hit send. Your message will be on its way.

Of course, you can check your yahoo messages from any mobile phone.

Yahoo, is also well known for its virus scanning tool which runs each time a message is sent or received.

AIM MAIL

Aim is an AOL Email based program. It also offers unlimited online storage, as well as a very good protection program (a must have now a days).

One thing most Aim customers like is how easy the program is to use. You don't have to be a computer wizard to use their easy to use interface program.

INBOX.COM

Inbox.com gives their users 5 GM of storage. They also giver their users a fast past way to access their mail. You don't have to wait around for any pages loads with inbox.com.

They also have virus and Spam protection.

However, inbox.com does not support digital signatures.

FASTMAIL.COM

As it names implies, Fastmail has a fast paced web interface. Consumers can send mail from any address using Fastmail.

Fastmail has excellent virus protection.

Yet, it has limited storage space, only MB mailbox storage space.

WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL

windows live is generally built right on your desk top. This email server offers a fast search for your messages.

It holds about 5GM of storage space.

One draw back is that its Spam protection is considered possibly mediocre at best.

Plus, the pages are also known for their slowness to load.

BIGSTRING.COM

Bigstring.com allows their users to password protect their email accounts.

Bigstring.com offers 2GB of email space.

One nice thing that consumers like about Bigstring.com is the fact that they can record and send videos right inside the site.

As you can see you have many choices and many options when it comes to free email servers. Hopefully, you can find one that fits your need and will never have to pay for one.