Email for own domains: Gmail versus Live.com

[Gerrit]

https://www.google.com/hosted
http://domains.live.com


Both Gmail and MSN have now started webmail service where one can bring his own domain and get a free mailbox using @your-own-domain.com instead of gmail.com or hotmail.com

Did anyone try these yet, and which of both is best?

I am very curious about it ; in the past using an own domain always involved a fee, whereas now suddenly two well-established providers do the service for free. I may try out both of them.

 

[NP41215]

I am going to create a competitor against gmail and live soon.

Robert

What will you use for backend, PostFix, QMail, SendMail?

https://www.google.com/hosted
http://domains.live.com


Both Gmail and MSN have now started webmail service where one can bring his own domain and get a free mailbox using @your-own-domain.com instead of gmail.com or hotmail.com

Did anyone try these yet, and which of both is best?

I am very curious about it ; in the past using an own domain always involved a fee, whereas now suddenly two well-established providers do the service for free. I may try out both of them.

I assume that they all provide spam filtering. If so, any comments from anyone on which company does the best job of filtering out spam?

 

[seeker]

sorry for the thread resurection.

However, I found the questions that gmail asked in order to accept me for their free email to be a little too 'private' for my taste.

I have my own servers etc..., however, I would still like to have a certian domain disassociated from my servers, and together with whois privacy, it will hopefully give me some sort of spam protection while being as anonymous as possible.

anyone know of any alternatives?

Thanks!

 

[Optinom]

Well, i voted for MSN purely coz they're more reliable. I've been having MSN, Yahoo accounts for past 6-7 years without problem.

Gmail recently disabled my email with them without reason. I lost thousands of mail with that. Made several attempts to contact them & asked about it, got no reply. Just searched on Google about this, and found several people's email have been disabled without reason. See here

For that matter, I havent used Google pop3 or any of the additional options they have on offer.

Gmail looks good. But if its not reliable, whats the point? I'll rather stick to the reliable MSN!

 

[seeker]

than ks for the link smooth.
does MSN also allow pop3 etc...?
where do you sign up for it using your own domain?

TIA

 

[duskdawn]

does MSN also allow pop3 etc...?

No. That's one of the reasons why I use gmail.

where do you sign up for it using your own domain?

http://domains.live.com/

 

[jeter4982]

I have to say that I have never had a problem with Gmail, and unless I encounter one, I see no reason to try out Live.com, or any other service for that matter.

Tom

 

[Optinom]

I have to say that I have never had a problem with Gmail, and unless I encounter one, I see no reason to try out Live.com, or any other service for that matter.

Tom

"Learn not only from your mistakes, but also from others mistakes. Coz life is too short to learn everything by own mistakes"

 

[iPlox]

Gmail is better in my opinion. I tried out Live.com a few months ago but switched to Gmail because of a better interface and more features like Jabber, etc..