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Reliable pop3 email account ?

AirCooledHeaven
AirCooledHeaven Posts: 884 Forumite
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Hi

I'm looking for a low cost, UK based, reliable, pop3 email service. I'm currently using UK2.net which is certainly cheap but also quite unreliable.

Any recommendations gratefully received.

PS I'm not looking for webmail.

Thanks

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  • arealhighlander
    arealhighlander Posts: 597 Forumite
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    yahoo.co.uk, googlemail, or now even hotmail.co.uk.

    These can all be accessed via Webmail as well as POP3 (Hotmail only recently changed over to POP3).

    All are free.
  • AirCooledHeaven
    AirCooledHeaven Posts: 884 Forumite
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    arealhighlander wrote: »
    yahoo.co.uk, googlemail, or now even hotmail.co.uk.

    These can all be accessed via Webmail as well as POP3 (Hotmail only recently changed over to POP3).

    All are free.

    Thanks for that info. But I think they all add an advertising signature to outgoing mail and I need a service that doesn't do that.
  • kevsan
    kevsan Posts: 238 Forumite
    yahoo and google don't add advertising when i sent messages.
    2014 running challenge 471.95 km / 1000 km.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    I don't remember seeing any advertisements in emails sent via GMX.com... They allow POP3 & IMAP access, I believe.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    Go for Google Mail. It's free, reliable, allows both POP3 and IMAP access, and has no advertising signatures.

    Google's other services (such as Google Calendar) are also very useful.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    kevsan wrote: »
    yahoo and google don't add advertising when i sent messages.

    Nor does Hotmail.. ;)
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