G,H,Y; webmail reviewed
2008, May 7. by sknownotice
Hotmail (or MSN Hotmail) is my first e-mail provider which gave me a free e-mail account with storage size of 2MB (this was in year 1998, if I remember… I was in primary school). That was reasonably enough to keep between 10 to 30 e-mails before I receive a notification whenever my mailbox is full. The size of storage was further increased to 250MB and today is 5GB. Its name is now Windows Live Hotmail. Frankly speaking, the new interface is rather ugly compared to older version (disappointing).
Here comes the secondly registered free e-mail account, provided by Yahoo!, the Yahoo! Mail. As for the reason, my father suggested that it is wise to have at least two e-mail accounts in case one of them is inaccessible. So, I have been using since year 2005 and am using the Beta version now. The Beta version looks better and easier to navigate. Initially the storage size is 250MB, later increased to 1GB and today is unlimited bytes! A thumbs up to Yahoo! Mail for its improved features. Yahoo! Mail is intended for me to use daily.
Last and the third registered account is Google Mail (Gmail). In year 2005, Gmail was still limited to those whom invited-for-Beta-testers. Apparently, my friend had one and he owned an account. I took this chance and had started with 2GB. Even before the Yahoo! Mail Beta, Gmail had a dynamic interface (using AJAX) for its e-mail account. The searching and tagging features are just Google-like. POP3 and IMAP are supported too. For me, Gmail is intended to be used for personal and backup; in favor of all three providers.
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I can’t seem to log into my Y! mail account for the past one week. Page displays “can’t find server at login.yahoo.com”. What has happened to the e-mail service? There’s nothing in the news saying about this matter. I could log in to my Hotmail and Gmail as usual but the Yahoo! mail.
Aha, the service is back to normal! I can log into my Yahoo! Mail account again. Yay! Um… somehow I think this sounds familiar… like I had this kind of problem before… why?