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Old 23 Feb 2014, 06:47 PM   #1
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Free email hosting service providers

This is a list of free mail hosting service providers. It's not complete, do you know other free email hosting service providers?

1. Windows Live Admin Center (was Windows Live Custom Domains)
http://domains.live.com
- you can add up to 50 users (some people report that the limit is higher, up to 500 users) but if you need more you can contact support and you get more users for free
- doesn't offer DKIM
- 7 Gb cloud space

2. Zoho - free plan
http://www.zoho.com
- up to 5 users but if you reffer people to sign up for Zoho you get 5 more users free for each referal (up to 20 users free maximum)
Zoho free email users are subject to usage limitation. The admin section let administrators to define a new mail policy or to edit the default one. However, the limits allowed by Zoho seems very low for me (the second value is the maximum value allowed):
Incoming
Maximum emails/minute1-50
Maximum email size/day (MB)1-300
Maximum email size/mail (MB) *1-20
Outgoing
Maximum emails/day1-500
Maximum emails/minute1-20
Maximum email size/day (MB)1-200
Maximum email size/mail (MB) *1-20
Maximum Recipients1-50
Maximum Recipients/day1-1000
Note: * Including Attachments

3. Yandex
http://pdd.yandex.ru/
- 1.000 users for free but if you need more you can fill an application and you get more users for free

4. Mail.ru
http://biz.mail.ru
- 5.000 users for free
- unlimited disk space (they say that the default email account size is 10 Gb but it automatically grow when you are near the limit)
- 100 Gb cloud space (they also have a sync application for desktop and smartphone, but this app is in russian)

5. 25 Mail St
http://25mail.st
- 1 free account

6. Providers based in China, but I am not able to review them since I don't know chinese:
http://www.qq.com/
http://www.163.com/
http://www.sohu.com/

7. Gandi
https://www.gandi.net/domain/mail
- you get 5 email accounts when you transfer your domain to gandi.net (or when you register a new domain)

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Old 23 Feb 2014, 08:10 PM   #2
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Inbox.com has a free email hosting plan:
http://www.inbox.com/products/mail-hosting.aspx
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Old 23 Feb 2014, 08:12 PM   #3
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MXRoute has a free hosting plan with 1 account, 10 GB storage.
http://mxroute.com/
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Old 23 Feb 2014, 09:34 PM   #4
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IndiaLinks.com

http://www.indialinks.com/legal/free...ting_terms.php

offers 1 mailbox free with 1 Gb disk space and catch-all for domains registered with them.
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Old 29 Jun 2014, 12:18 PM   #5
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Does eu.mx qualify?

How does it work, anyway? I've seen some posts on the forum about it, but I can't figure it out.
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Old 29 Jun 2014, 06:45 PM   #6
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Does eu.mx qualify?

How does it work, anyway? I've seen some posts on the forum about it, but I can't figure it out.
Unknown to me and the internet. Or do you mean EuMX.net?
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Old 29 Jun 2014, 08:11 PM   #7
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Yes, typo, sorry.
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Old 29 Jun 2014, 08:19 PM   #8
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Unfortunatelly, EUMX does not offer free email hosting.
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Old 30 Jun 2014, 12:12 AM   #9
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Free catch-all forwarding solution?

Is there a free solution to forward all mail sent to my domain to a specific email address?

There are some free mail hosting solutions listed here:

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68513

But I don't know if any of them do catch-all and/or forwarding.

Thanks.
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Old 30 Jun 2014, 04:24 AM   #10
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there is also mrmail.com https://www.mrmail.com/portal/?/cart/

1GB mailbox
50MB attachments
Full Webmail access
All Zimbra Features - including Briefcase!
No Advertisements
Full Zimbra Desktop access
Windows, Apple, Linux compatible

through zimbra you have pop3 and imap support but also when you sign up you also get a @mrmail.com email address.
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Old 30 Jun 2014, 04:32 AM   #11
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Although mrmail problems reported in this thread:

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68563
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Old 30 Jun 2014, 08:05 AM   #12
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If your end point filters spam and blocks servers that spam repeatedly then when what you are speaking of is as good as dead. It can work for a day, a week, a month even, and you might just miss a bunch of mail and never know, but the simple truth is that unless you control the filter at the end point you can't forward all mail to it. The forwarding server will be blocked, and no respectable service will allow you to trash their IPs in an IPv4 shortage.

I say this knowing the impact of my words. Forwarders and catchalls had a good run, but for most purposes they are no longer valid. Spammers have been adapting to use legitimate SPF and DKIM records, I see it every day, and it makes filtering harder which increases spam sent through forwarders on nearly all services. The industry always adapts, but blind forwarders are not going to survive this one.

Have a read here, for a more in depth explanation: http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/blog/2009/...ts-a-bad-idea/

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Old 30 Jun 2014, 08:41 AM   #13
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i'm well aware since i posted in that topic too. but he didn't ask for problem free services. i think a lot of free services, from small companies will have problems. Can't expect the best of the best from something that cost nothing. for example zoho had some issues recently as well http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=69154

anyways, about mrmail. Someone in that topic you posted discovered that the company got sold a few months back, so who knows maybe the new management will be better than the previous owner.
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Old 26 Jul 2014, 09:15 AM   #14
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Is there a free solution to forward all mail sent to my domain to a specific email address?

There are some free mail hosting solutions listed here:

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68513

But I don't know if any of them do catch-all and/or forwarding.

Thanks.
Most domain registrars will offer email forwarding for free upon each domain registered. For sure the providers I used (mainly name.com but also bNamed.net and united-domains.de) all had such options.

Also, you can use a simple URL forwarder (eg Ulimit.com whom I tried myself, .de.vu, co.nr, uni.cc, .eu.org, .nl.nu, ...) and they usually offer email forwarding as well as URL forwarding (some may require you use your own DNS or place your subdomain on an external DNS such as provided by afraid.org or DynDNS)

Also, doesn't .tk domains, even the free ones, come with email forwarding?

Or do you search for actual free services that can give a mailbox using your own domain? Which is different than forwarding, which you seem to ask for... Free services that can host your domain for email include Zoho.com and Mail.ru ; probably there's more but those are the only ones of whom I heard mainly praise and no concerns.
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Old 26 Jul 2014, 09:38 AM   #15
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Also, doesn't .tk domains, even the free ones, come with email forwarding?
Unless something has changed since I last set anything up with them, .tk will forward any address set up with a .tk domain which you "control" to forward to any other email address (up to a certain limit -- maybe 500 addresses per .tk domain?), but they don't have "wildcard" forwarding. Every .tk address has to be set up specifically to forward to another specific address.
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