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[tinyjo]

Does anyone know any webmail setups which have good interfaces, are fairly secure, have spam filters and are not gmail?

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[draconid.livejournal.com]

No!

The best interface I've seen is the one at fusemail.com - although it's horribly orange and the newer interface tries to do a little too much ajaxy stuff (although you can pick between the two). I have no idea how good the spam filters are because that address rarely gets spam. And security wise, well, I've never had a problem there either.

The downside is it does cost money. I pay a very small amount because I had it when they had free accounts; I have no idea how much a new account costs.

The nice thing (I discovered recently) is that it does have imap and pop so if you want to be able to use it web-based and home based you can!

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

I can't tell if you mean "service which provides e-mail", or "piece of software you can download and install on your mail server which provides webmail". I know lots for the latter, and none for the former. :)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly thinking of the latter but as a web 2.0 app rather than a downloaded one.

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, well, I've used Horde (http://www.horde.org/imp/) with good success. Plus, mendel worked on it way back in the day. ;)

[timscience.livejournal.com]

I use Yahoo for my "public" email (i.e. the one that I use to sign up for things and which consequently collects a load of spam). My friends get the pop3.

Yahoo? Oh, it's....OK, I guess. The spam filter's trainable. The inbox takes a while to load. The new front page is more annoying than the old front page, but possibly that's because I'd got used to how the old one worked. WTF - it's a free webmail service, just like all the others. *shrug*

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with gmail?

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I don't trust them. They have a poor record of respecting requests for privacy (even following their own procedures) and so I'd rather not have them indexing my mail. Plus they're in the US. The ideal service from my POV for email would also be UK based. I usually only use gmail for handing out to places I don't really want to give my address to but at the moment I'm forwarding my tinyjo mail there because I can't connect to the pop server via work outlook and the webmail facility on my personal email account is *horrible*