Yahoo Mail useless -- try Gawab.com instead

[Paul]

I don't think this is off-topic, and it will definitely help some of you!

I've been using Yahoo Mail for years. However, with all these viruses coming
out lately, my Yahoo mailbox has become filled to capacity (6 MB) within a
2-hour period. This means all legit mail coming in overnight (while I sleep)
is being bounced and thus I never see it. EXTREMELY ANNOYING!

I contacted Yahoo to see if they can offer a way to delete filtered mail instead
of just sending it to the Trash (which counts towards the 6 MB limit) and they
said no. Fine.

So I just found out about Gawab.com -- and I'm glad I did! This is a FREE e-mail
service that gives you a 15 MB mailbox (compared to Yahoo's measly 6) and powerful
filtering options -- INCLUDING DELETING OF UNWANTED MAIL INSTEAD OF TRASHING IT!

Better still -- you can access such mail with any POP client -- such as Outlook,
Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. No need for a third-party app like YahooPOPs,
ePrompter, Web2Pop, etc. And because this POP support is provided, your mail
downloads to your e-mail client much quicker than parsing a web-based account!

So if you're sick of your Yahoo Mailbox being filled with viruses, give this a go.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

I don't think this is off-topic, and it will definitely help some of you!

It's about a web service, not freeware. Why wouldn't it be off-topic?

 

[Claude Metz]

I don't think this is off-topic, and it will definitely help some of you!

I've been using Yahoo Mail for years. However, with all these viruses coming
out lately, my Yahoo mailbox has become filled to capacity (6 MB) within a
2-hour period. This means all legit mail coming in overnight (while I sleep)
is being bounced and thus I never see it. EXTREMELY ANNOYING!

I contacted Yahoo to see if they can offer a way to delete filtered mail instead
of just sending it to the Trash (which counts towards the 6 MB limit) and they
said no. Fine.

So I just found out about Gawab.com -- and I'm glad I did! This is a FREE e-mail
service that gives you a 15 MB mailbox (compared to Yahoo's measly 6) and powerful
filtering options -- INCLUDING DELETING OF UNWANTED MAIL INSTEAD OF TRASHING IT!

Better still -- you can access such mail with any POP client -- such as Outlook,
Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. No need for a third-party app like YahooPOPs,
ePrompter, Web2Pop, etc. And because this POP support is provided, your mail
downloads to your e-mail client much quicker than parsing a web-based account!

So if you're sick of your Yahoo Mailbox being filled with viruses, give this a go.

Pretty quick and easy signup, too!

 

[Lee Marsh]

You don't have to use that YahooPOPs program or whatever its called to
receive e-mail normally, you can get it much quicker like any other POP3
account by doing the following:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html

You can then just put your ISP's Outgoing address in the SMTP section to
send e-mail.

Using K9 works as well to filter the e-mail as does using MMM.

 

[Paul]

You don't have to use that YahooPOPs program or whatever its called to
receive e-mail normally, you can get it much quicker like any other
POP3 account by doing the following:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html

That's a paid service now, and doesn't work if you haven't paid.

 

[Lee Marsh]

Paul wrote:
| Lee Marsh wrote:
|
|| You don't have to use that YahooPOPs program or whatever its called
|| to receive e-mail normally, you can get it much quicker like any
|| other POP3 account by doing the following:
||
|| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html
|
| That's a paid service now, and doesn't work if you haven't paid.

Work's for me and I didn't pay.

 

[Lee Marsh]

Paul wrote:
| Lee Marsh wrote:
|
|||| You don't have to use that YahooPOPs program or whatever its called
|||| to receive e-mail normally, you can get it much quicker like any
|||| other POP3 account by doing the following:
||||
|||| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html
|||
||| That's a paid service now, and doesn't work if you haven't paid.
||
|| Work's for me and I didn't pay.
|
| Doesn't work for me. I'm using the US-based Yahoo, what about you?
|
| Here's a quote from
| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-10.html :
|
| "You must subscribe to the Yahoo! Mail POP/Forwarding service for POP
| access through your email client."

May be because I'm using the UK one then.

 

[Paul]

Work's for me and I didn't pay.

Doesn't work for me. I'm using the US-based Yahoo, what about you?

Here's a quote from http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-10.html :

"You must subscribe to the Yahoo! Mail POP/Forwarding service for POP
access through your email client."

 

[Lee Marsh]

Lee Marsh wrote:
| Paul wrote:
|| Lee Marsh wrote:
||
||||| You don't have to use that YahooPOPs program or whatever its
||||| called to receive e-mail normally, you can get it much quicker
||||| like any other POP3 account by doing the following:
|||||
||||| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-06.html
||||
|||| That's a paid service now, and doesn't work if you haven't paid.
|||
||| Work's for me and I didn't pay.
||
|| Doesn't work for me. I'm using the US-based Yahoo, what about you?
||
|| Here's a quote from
|| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-10.html :
||
|| "You must subscribe to the Yahoo! Mail POP/Forwarding service for POP
|| access through your email client."
|
| May be because I'm using the UK one then.

It does work though I use: pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk/110/unreal_dungeon using K9
then have SMTP as my other account relay.force9.net.

 

[Paul]

May be because I'm using the UK one then.

Yep -- I've read that only the US Yahoo charges for the service, but
unfortunately that's the address I've got. Might just be a matter
of time before they start charging for your POP access too.

 

[Lee Marsh]

Paul wrote:
| Lee Marsh wrote:
|
||| Here's a quote from
||| http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-10.html :
|||
||| "You must subscribe to the Yahoo! Mail POP/Forwarding service for
||| POP access through your email client."
||
|| May be because I'm using the UK one then.
|
| Yep -- I've read that only the US Yahoo charges for the service, but
| unfortunately that's the address I've got. Might just be a matter
| of time before they start charging for your POP access too.

Oh well, just signed up for one of the Gawab accounts you mentioned anyway

 

[Paul]

Oh well, just signed up for one of the Gawab accounts you mentioned
anyway

Yeah, got more space too, and mail tracking options (see when your sent mails
were read).

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mal=F9?=]

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:48:46 +1000
Paul ha scritto:

So I just found out about Gawab.com -- and I'm glad I did! This is a FREE e-mail
service [...]

From their FAQ:

How does Gawab.com offer all that for free?
With our " Totally Free" program, Gawab.com earns its revenue from paid
advertisements and marketing partnerships.

How does Gawab.com share advertising?
Every email page contains a banner ad.

I think it's worth to know.

 

[bassbag]

Yeah, got more space too, and mail tracking options (see when your sent mails
were read).

Whats the pop and smtp server name so that u can access from OE or
eudora?
tia
me

 

[Claude Metz]

Whats the pop and smtp server name so that u can access from OE or
eudora?
tia
me

pop.gawab.com and smtp.gawab.com (smtp authentication required)

 

[Claude Metz]

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:48:46 +1000
Paul ha scritto:

So I just found out about Gawab.com -- and I'm glad I did! This is a FREE e-mail
service [...]

From their FAQ:

How does Gawab.com offer all that for free?
With our " Totally Free" program, Gawab.com earns its revenue from paid
advertisements and marketing partnerships.

How does Gawab.com share advertising?
Every email page contains a banner ad.

I think it's worth to know.

No banner ads on any of my email pages yet. Their service really
looks outstanding compared to many others I've tried. However, it
wouldn't surprise me if the addresses you send to, or receive from,
are spammed, so you have to use discretion.

 

[bassbag]

pop.gawab.com and smtp.gawab.com (smtp authentication required)

Thanks very much
me

 

[dansheen]

"> So if you're sick of your Yahoo Mailbox being filled with viruses, give
this a go.

I just wanted to suggest an alternative. I'm having the same problem with
yahoo. I have another mail account at myway.com and have received minimal
spam there in the past year. So far none of the microsoft virus emails have
reached me there.
It is similar to yahoo with 6mb max but has no spyware, banners, or popoups.

 

[Paul]

How does Gawab.com share advertising?
Every email page contains a banner ad.

Only sent mail, not received. I use it's POP service with Outlook to read
my incoming mail, and use my own ISP's SMTP server to send mail, instead of
Gawab's SMTP server. Viola -- no advertising.

 

[William de Haan]

So I just found out about Gawab.com -- and I'm glad I did! This is a FREE e-mail
service that gives you a 15 MB mailbox (compared to Yahoo's measly 6) and powerful
filtering options -- INCLUDING DELETING OF UNWANTED MAIL INSTEAD OF TRASHING IT!

As www.gawab.com/prevsfree.html shows, the 15MB mailbox is not available in
their free service. Instead, they offer 4MB (a third less than Yahoo's
"measly" 6MB). And if you're willing to pay for a mailbox, Yahoo gives you
25MB, 50MB, or 100MB a year (depending on cost), as opposed to Gawab's
15MB.

Better still -- you can access such mail with any POP client -- such as
Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. No need for a third-party app like
YahooPOPs, ePrompter, Web2Pop, etc. And because this POP support is
provided, your mail downloads to your e-mail client much quicker than
parsing a web-based account!

This is true only if you pay for the service, in which case it should be
compared against Yahoo's pay service. And they can't be compared, because
unlike Yahoo (http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/help), Gawab doesn't post their
prices. Instead, you are expected to fill out a form giving them a valid
email account and phone number, and they will contact you with the price.

Comparing free services, gawab looks even nastier. Unlike Hotmail, Yahoo,
MailAndNews, to sign up for Gawab:

- You must have a currently active Web site.
- They must be able to connect to the URL
- You must provide a current contact email address
- You must provide a contact telephone number

(taken from http://www.gawab.com/services.html?)

According to WHOIS, the Gawab domain was registered only three weeks ago.
Given what I've just detailed here, it's hard to consider the original
poster's raving endorsement as being impartial. I'm hardly a fan of Yahoo,
but to describe it as "lame" when compared to Gawab appears dishonest. Gawab
seems to offer less storage for more money, and is personally intrusive in
doing so (notice with the free account that "Gawab.com has the right to mass
mail your users").

I' recommend anyone considering this to do a lot of research before handing
out contact information, let alone money, to them.

In contrast, the www.myway.com site mentioned in the thread states that
"Unlike other portals, My Way will not rent, sell or trade your personal
information". They also only asked for a first name (optional, for
personalization) and have a customizable spam filter (the original complaint
against Yahoo). Likewise, the service at www.mail.com has fewer restrictions
and more features (including the ability to use @techie.com as your domain).
If Yahoo and Hotmail are unacceptable to you, either of those two seems like
a better value than Gawab.