I have 17,261 e-mails and 200MB of quota from Stanford. Needless to say, I’ve been teetering on the brink of doom for about 3 months and I’m starting to lose the war. If you sent me mail in the last 2-3 weeks and didn’t receive a response, it’s probably being enjoyed by popcorn-wielding members of Stanford’s IT department, and you should probably resend it. Please also comment here so I can gauge the extent of the problem.
If any Stanford faculty is willing to sponsor me for additional quota, please contact me. Otherwise, I could use recommendations for good, cheap IMAP providers. Thanks all.
June 13th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
http://macteens.net/
1 GB, IMAP, POP, webmail, free
June 13th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
http://www.SpamCop.net/ (yes, “.net”)
$30/yr, only a 15MB quota (but is not really enforced and is probably going to change soon)
(and they’d probably work out a deal for a celebrity like yourself)
plus lots and lots of other features such as
nice mod of horde webmail (https accessible)
reporting (not just filtering) of spam
spam assassin
“POP”ing of AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, and true POP servers
read here to find out how spamcop users use spamcop
SpamCop Discussion -> How I use Spam Cop
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2385
I AM IN NO WAY AFFILIATED
June 13th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
IMHO, you can’t go past Fastmail.FM for reliability. Pricing isn’t too bad. Their webmail interface is second to none and filled with nice little features.
The emailaddresses.com forums might prove some help?
June 13th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
(oops didn’t mean to submit that yet, continues)
… just a happy long-time customer.
June 13th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Check AIM Mail - 2GB, Free, IMAP too. You’ll need an AOL network screen name though …
June 13th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Does gmail do IMAP?
June 13th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
http://www.fusemail.com/ You can’t believe how many cool features you can find there and how organized you can be with unlimited number of aliases for each mailing list and even if you refer some people to it you can get more months free. So please enter 29374 as the promotional code when registering. Thanks.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:35 am
My personal favourite is www.gmx.net, with 1GB quota, free, no IMAP. IMAP is available in the ProMail package, which has 5GB quota and is 3€/month.
The entire thing is a Eurupean service, though, so I’m not sure if US citizens can get the paid services.
For myself, I use GMX FreeMail and a personal server that runs fetchmail to get the mails from there every 5 minutes. These are then provided to me through my own IMAP server. (I use dovecot.)
No quotas at all beyond my disk space (ca. 40GB) :)
June 14th, 2005 at 12:36 am
Oh, I forgot to mention, GMX has excellent built-in spam and (in ProMail) virus filters.
June 14th, 2005 at 1:10 am
Who hosts this site, anyway? Just about any webhost can give you IMAP access, and tons of space to go along with it…
June 14th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Blake, I sent you an e-mail about Firefox/Dragon NaturallySpeaking integration to your Firefox address — do you forward that one to Stanford? Anyway, I will resend. Take it easy!
June 14th, 2005 at 6:19 am
Dreamhost IMAP works just fine for me, and the 777 promo code should still work, so you get a whole year, and a free domain registration if you want one, for like $10. If you wanted to flip this site over too, you’ll get enough bandwidth to get slashdotted every month! :)
June 14th, 2005 at 9:05 am
David N. - From their own Features section, “Gmail doesn’t currently support IMAP access.”
Blake - If you are OK with a pretty awesome Web-App (with POP3 access available), I can give you 1 to 100 GMail invites. That is assuming, of course, that you don’t already have some (or loads of) GMail invites available.
Un-fizzle my address (drop the izzle and izz) if you want to contact me. The version I’m attaching to this post is a spam-catcher.
June 15th, 2005 at 3:33 am
For everyone suggesting anything other than IMAP: that will not do. Believe me, gotta love IMAP! ^_^
~Grauw
June 21st, 2005 at 8:25 am
you could always host your own, and your quota will be as large as your harddrive. just set it up to fetchmail from your stanford acct. you know you want your mailserver to be blake.stanford.edu :)
June 24th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Just get Gmail. Send me an email if you an invite to Gmail or Yahoo 360!
June 29th, 2005 at 9:42 am
I second the recommendation for fastmail.fm. It’s fast. It’s cheap. It’s massive. It’s IMAP. These guys know what they’re doing.
Otherwise, try getting a TextDrive hosting account, they’re awesome as well and give you IMAP access along with the best hosting money can buy (sincerely).
June 29th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I just got spam on the spreadfirefox.com mailing list. A single email with a link to a german Spiegel article about managers of Commerzbank getting obscenely high wages.
What gives?
June 30th, 2005 at 2:34 pm
I have had about 6 e-mails today relating to a German website as Mark mentioned earlier. Not sure what’s up with that.
On a different note, remember the 25 million downloads coin rewards? I was one of the “winners” — I have received nothing in the mail though =o(
I did you send you an e-mail and now wonder due to your post here if you even got it? Any ideas on the coin? Lost (stolen more like) in the post? Damn shame, was looking forward to the coin — oh well. =o(
July 7th, 2005 at 8:36 am
I also suggest http://www.fastmail.fm I’ve been using it for years and don’t have any complains.
Positively recommended
July 31st, 2005 at 8:20 pm
Hi,
No news in 3+ weeks on the blog. The ‘Fire’fox should not loose its fire in the belly !!
September 21st, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Mailnation (www.mailnation.net) is a free service that doesn’t have a quota and supports Web/IMAP/POP3 and is ad-free. It also supports aliases (via web too, not just SMTP), so you could send things from your old address (yes, web based aliases don’t have to be within their domain). You could also copy over all your old e-mails via IMAP from your web client. So if you set up a forwarder, nobody would even need know that you changed addresses. Also, if you need an invite to gmail, I can send one to you (tvoss3@gmail.com), but I would suggest aim.com or mailnation.net unless you don’t ever plan on using an e-mail client, since they support IMAP. Gmail probably is the best web-based e-mail I’ve seen, but seriously, if you’re reading this page, then you shouldn’t even consider it — you should go with aim.com, mailnation.net, or fastmail.fm — something that supports IMAP, cause that’s really the only way to go.
March 6th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Hey there Blake. I love FireFox! I use it everyday! I am making a FireFox Help Forum. So you can just work on the products you usally are. You’ve inpsired me so thats what I made the forum. I hope someday we can email each other! ;)