We need free e-mail adresses

FAJ_2

We already have broadband in the house for business pusposes. I used my old Eurobell account for accessing private e-mail but this has now been switched off in favour of Telewest's broadband service. I don't want to pay for e-mail addresses for family memebers when we already have broadband in the house so any and all suggestions welcome!

Fi

wigginsmum

I have a Yahoo and a Googlemail address, as well as my NTL one.

intel

http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk Yep Yahoo mail

theloft

FAJ wrote:

We already have broadband in the house for business pusposes. I used my old Eurobell account for accessing private e-mail but this has now been switched off in favour of Telewest's broadband service. I don't want to pay for e-mail addresses for family memebers when we already have broadband in the house so any and all suggestions welcome! Fi

If you would like an invitation for a Google email address (gmail) which is completely free and excellent, send me a PM with your current e-mail address (this is the only way at present) and I will send you an invite. With Gmail you get 2GB of storage, you can access it via Outlook Express etc. or direct and can take it with you if you change ISP. Brilliant! Anybody else who wants one do the same!

davidjohndean

Hotmail
Yahoo
are both accounts I have used in the past and have found to be really good and free!

f3lix

get a gmail, definitely the best.

by invitation only, but you will find hundreds here gmail

davidjohndean

What is gmail? and what are the benefits of using it rather than using hotmail/yahoo?

f3lix

gmail is googles web based email

learn more here

I personally think it works really well at filtering out spam
and you get limitless space.....well about 2gb, so it's quite
good for storing stuff such as digital pictures.

arealhighlander

Yahoo, but sign up for yahoo.co.uk rather than yahoo.com as .co.uk allow you POP3 access whereas .com doesnt (i think unless things have changed)

Gmail is good, but read about concerns, all email in your Gmail box becomes the property of Google after something like 6 months, they can do what they want with it, etc. Lots of concerns over the terms and conditions for Gmail.

ioscorpio

You can now have a "dot" in your yahoo address so more possible names are available. I got i.____@yahoo.com as I did not want a co.uk address anymore.

Rex_Mundi

I know it's not free, but it doesn't cost too much to buy your own domain name to use as an email address. I paid £6 for two years for my own .co.uk name just for use as an emaill address.

The advantage of using this method is that you can have as many email addresses to the same name as you like. (eg..not my domain).......

[email]rex@ blahblah.co.uk[/email].
[email]rexmundi@ blahblah.co.uk[/email].
[email]mundi@ blahblah.co.uk[/email].