Emails for registration list. Postal services: the best and most reliable

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. E-mail for me is the main source of communication with the "outside world". Neither, nor any other instant messengers that allow real-time communication, I do not accept.

It's hard to say why. It is possible that they are a great distraction with the need to respond, while the message that came to Email may well wait, because the respondent who sent it does not really expect a quick response.

But besides direct communication, a lot of all sorts of things are always tied to an electronic box - from social networks to payment systems. Often, the inability to enter your once created and forgotten mail can cost you a lot of nerves when restoring access to any service. Therefore, I offer with all pay attention to the choice of a free mailbox and opportunities to restore access to it.

Also, an important aspect that may affect your choice is the correspondence that comes to your Email. For example, an attacker, having gained access to your mailbox, can (or something that compromises you). Moreover, mail is almost always broken automatically (indiscriminately), so everyone without exception is at risk.

And, of course, the tedious spam that falls on your “soap” in an increasing stream, and in the absence of a sane spam cutter on the service, can turn work with correspondence into torture. Therefore, I will try to conduct an express analysis of the most popular e-mail systems in Runet(free, of course) and at the end I will invite you to vote for the service that you consider the most successful solution. Together, I think, we get the "average temperature in the hospital", which can be radically different from my personal judgment. I hope it will be interesting.

Email mail - selection criteria, nuances of registration and entry

In RuNet, to designate e-mail, they often use words like “electronic”, “soap” (from mail) or: E-mail or Email (although it would be more correct - Email). Personally, I use either "mail" or "soap" in everyday life, although this does not change the essence.

I think it's not worth talking about, but this term, curiously, has a lot of alternative options. For example, in the bourgeoisie it is customary to designate it with the word Email (although until recently they wrote E-mail, but now the rules have changed and the correct option is the one where the hyphen is not put).

By itself, the technology of transmitting emails directly between the sender and the addressee originated as far back as 1965, and, perhaps, that it is even older than the Internet itself (you can read about that at the links provided). True, the first mailer intended for general access appeared only in 1996 (it was). At the moment, this technology has already been sufficiently refined and standardized (POP3, SMTP or IMAP protocols are used). However, the main problem still remains.

At a slightly earlier stage of the existence of Email in Runet, there was also, which, after passing through a number of mail servers, turned the text into an unreadable and difficult-to-recover set of krakozyabrs. Now this is extremely rare. But lately, a serious problem has become (up to 90% of all correspondence can be spam), which comes even to a newly created (registered) mailbox.

The first mail services in Runet appeared quite a long time ago. The oldest of them is e-mail from Mail.ru, which opened already in the last millennium (in 1998) and offered us the opportunity for the first time to create a free mailbox in the Russian-language interface in order to receive correspondence from our friends, or some , about which I have already written in some detail.

Actually, it is this fact, most likely, that became the predetermining factor in the current arrangement of free mail services on the Runet market:

The information on the graph is true a year and a half ago, but in general it shows quite well the preferences of Runet users. But it should be borne in mind that many users, having mailboxes, for example, on Mail.ru, do not use this service themselves, but redirect mail to their main mailbox (for example, I have had it in Gmail since 2005).

Before signing up for email, think about...

Immediately I would like to say without reference to any service.

  1. Firstly, now it is already difficult to choose a name for your Email as you wish, because tens of millions of users who have registered before you have sorted out everything that is popular, not very popular, and even completely exotic. You will either have to show remarkable imagination, or choose something not very well remembered.
  2. Secondly, in addition to the login (the name of your future e-mail), you also specify a password during registration. For convenience, many of us use simple passwords (for example, before my mailbox was hacked, I had the password “123456” on it, because I thought that no one needed it for free), or the same password is indicated during registration almost every all services (social networks, payment systems, forums, mailers and others). In both cases you are taking a big risk, because:
    1. Absolutely any e-mail box is valuable for a hacker, because then he, along with a bunch of others, will drive it to spammers at a reasonable price, and for this you can get an account blocking in your free mail service. Hacking is carried out by automatic selection using the database of the most popular combinations or special dictionaries.
    2. By programmatically scanning the contents of your Email, the attacker will extract from it accounts in social networks, monetary systems, data for accessing forums and other things necessary in the life of a hacker, which can then be sold wholesale or retail (or monetized independently).
    3. Even if passwords for these useful things are not found, it will always be possible to request their recovery, and accounts in most cases will be tied again to this very hacked Email.
    4. And besides, the password and login from the mailbox are, which means they will allow you to access many services of Mail.ru, Yandex or Google (if you rent an email address from them), which again can lead to unpleasant consequences.
    5. In addition, they may begin to blackmail you in order to return the email or confidential data stored in it. There are a lot of options, and in this case there will be, as a rule, one payment method - paid SMS.
    6. Well, the rarest case - they will break you purposefully by order of ill-wishers or competitors. In this case, only a really strong password and its recovery using an SMS message that will be sent to the cell phone number specified during registration can help.

    Therefore, use my advice when registering in any service, and in order not to forget them later,. Well, if you really want to elevate security on your computer to its apogee, then you cannot do without it. As the saying goes, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean you're not being followed.

  3. Now most email services will allow you to use your mobile phone number, which you specify when registering with the email service, or you can add it later in your profile settings. Of course, you can use the security question and the answer in the old fashioned way (if you remember them, which is far from a fact), but SMS to your phone is much more reliable and easier.

    Therefore, if you value your electronic box, then it is better to provide them with a mobile phone number. Yes, you disclose your confidentiality to some extent, because by the number they can, if requested from the competent authorities, find out your installation data. But if you are an “honest taxpayer”, then the convenience of restoring access to Email will be more important for you than the hypothetical exposure of your incognito. However, this conclusion is valid only in relation to the "whales" of the Internet business, because they have no reason to leak your numbers to spammers or other "radishes". IMHO.

Login to your email

It seems to be a simple question - how to enter the mail? However, there are a few points here that may be useful for a beginner "internet user" to know. When I created this blog, the main idea was that it is most difficult to find answers to the simplest questions, because for most they are taken for granted, and answering, for example, on forums to “stupid questions” is considered the height of indecency (as a rule) . Therefore, I decided to dwell a little more on the problem of logging into e-mail.

In general, everything is simpler than simple, but the main thing don't get caught by accident phishers (fishermen), who, without seeing the catch, tell them your username and password through the login form. This not only applies, but also to any other services where authorization is required (login and password).

Therefore, if you work with e-mails via the web interface (you can use the mail client program on your computer, which will collect correspondence from all your mailboxes), then follow a few of my simple tips:


But in general to improve the convenience of working with mail you can use, for example, special extensions for browsers (you will need to tell them your login and password from your mailbox), which will quickly track new messages that appear in your Inbox folder and somehow signal you about it. You can read about similar email gadgets for browsers or. There is an article about it, but I'm afraid that few people have it already installed, because Opera has been working on the Chrome engine for quite some time.

And finally, to work with a large volume of correspondence or with a large number of email accounts on different services, you may need to mail client program. Personally, I use the M2 client built into the old Opera and I'm so used to it that I can't even describe it in words. However, there are many other options, the most famous of which are probably Outlook from the Microsoft office suite and "The bat". True, both of them are paid. And of the free ones, the most widely heard is probably Mozilla Thunderbird from the browser developer Firefox.

Which free email service to choose?

In principle, there are quite a few of them, but I will list only the main ones that can be considered massive and verified enough to make a judgment about them. Of course, they are all free, but differ in a number of indicators, such as:

  1. Ease of use (low barrier to entry)
  2. Built-in functionality
  3. Provided storage space for correspondence (mail box size)
  4. Security of use (protection against hacking and account access recovery system). This also includes protection against viruses in letters and from fraudsters (phishers). In addition, the confidentiality of working with the mailbox is also important, because your messages can be intercepted on the way to the mail server. In this case, the best option would be to operate an online e-mail service using the HTTPS protocol (with encryption of transmitted traffic).
  5. Availability of effective spam filtering (spam cutter)

All these features combined and serve as the main selection criteria of the service where it makes sense to register your Email. Next, I will give a brief description of the free email services participating in today's tender, and at the end of the article you will find a form to vote for one or more of them. You can consider their order in this list arbitrary, because it would probably be incorrect to arrange them in accordance with my personal preferences in relation to the voting.

    gmail(Gmail, Dzhimail, aka Zhmail or just Google Mail) is a serious player both in the global free Email market and in the domestic Runet market. He entered the game with a significant delay in relation to the main competitors (in 2005 a beta was released, and in 2009 a fully functional version of the service). However, he performed powerfully and managed to win an army of adherents, partially pulling the audience from competitors' services that had already existed for a long time (in Runet, these are Mail.ru, Rambler and Yandex).

    You can tell a lot about this email service, but why repeat yourself if all this has already been described:

    If the above descriptions are too lazy to read, then I will say the information presented there that the Gmail interface is quite digestible, and the functionality of this service is not only ahead of all competitors, but is also constantly expanding with innovations being tested in the “laboratory”. Letters in it can be grouped, put into folders, assigned labels, and also build chains from them to track the history of correspondence.

    After registering the mailbox, you will have at your disposal 15 gigabytes of free space, which is quite enough to store regular correspondence. True, these same 15 gigs Gmail will share what you need to know.

    In terms of security, your Email account will also be all right, because access to the online service is carried out via the HTTPS protocol (in the address bar you will see “https://” instead of the usual “http://”), and if you wish, you you can enable two-step authentication, which I highly recommend doing (read about it in the materials above). In this case, without an SMS message to your mobile phone, no one will be able to enter your email box (unless he uses your computer and browser that remembered entering this code). This will also help you quickly restore access if you lose your password.

    The spam cutter in Google email usually works perfectly. But sometimes when sending mail to this mailbox, for example, from its hosting (then), it can all end up in the Spam folder, but Gmail filters allow you to set up rules by which it will be automatically extracted from there and sent to the Inbox folder ". Filters in general can solve a number of problems, so I advise you to get to know them better.

  1. Yandex Mail- the service appeared a little later than the analogue from Mail.ru, but quite seriously managed to pull over the blanket (with users). Its new online interface is simple, well thought out and fast enough (you can customize it for yourself). Working with letters and filtering them are very convenient (the timeline is especially prominent, allowing you to view correspondence for a certain period).

    There is a built-in translator (described here) and the ability to send free SMS notifications (you will need to specify the phone number of the person to whom you are sending the letter).

    You can read more about the functionality of this e-mail box here:

    Yandex Mail divides the allocated space for correspondence, and the restrictions on the size of the box are the same - 10-20 GB (depending on the conditions you have met, which you will find in the article about Ya.Disk). With security, everything is fine here too - HTTPS is used and it is possible to activate the e-mail login mode only after entering the confirmation code that comes to the mobile phone.

    According to my subjective impressions, the anti-spam filter used in Yandex called "Spam Defense" shows almost the best results among all the services listed in this article. Spam will not get through, but still, it would be better to skim through the Spam folder before cleaning it for legitimate correspondence to get into it. What if... And this applies to any mailers.

  2. E-mail Mail.ru- the oldest service in Runet. A few years ago, he underwent significant changes, which allowed him to compete on equal terms with his younger counterparts. Working with correspondence and managing it does not cause any complaints - it is quite simple and effective. Now you can view emails sent to all your Emails registered in Mail.ru in one window of the web interface, which is quite convenient.

    In terms of security, after the update, the service has also become much better. The HTTPS protocol is used, and messages are checked for viruses by Kaspersky. You can also specify a mobile phone number, but, as I understand it, it is used only to restore lost access to your email account, although you can do something in the settings to enhance security (on the "Password and Security" tab). Read more about this service here:

    Email from Mail.ru after the update is positioned as dimensionless. In fact, you are initially provided with 10 GB for correspondence, well, as the mailbox is filled with letters (and attachments), the size will increase by another couple of gigs each time. Do not forget, by the way, that they also have a service called , which is also closely related to e-mail, but has its own free disk space of a fairly decent size - 25 GB.

    I didn’t like the spam cutter in Mail, so I redirect all letters from these emails to my main mailbox in Gmail, where he already compensates for the shortcomings of this mail service with his spam cutter. In fact, this is pure IMHO, and it is possible that now the fight against spam in Mail.ru is at a higher level (comment on this point, please, if there is something to say).

  3. Rambler Post- is also one of the oldest Runet services, which has undergone significant changes not so long ago. True, they did not go as smoothly and successfully as in Mail.ru. Yes, the online interface turned out to be as simple and clear as possible, but the functionality could have been richer. In addition, there were many complaints about the stability of the service, and in particular about the inefficient spam cutter.

    In terms of safety, it also does not shine. It seems like the HTTPS protocol is used (but the browser swears at the insecurity of working with this node), and everything else remained at the level of the turn of the century, when this brainchild of Rambler was born. By the way, I did not find any information about checking for viruses. The size of the box is also not impressive - only 2 GB. You can read more about it here:

    I think that the main task of the developers at the moment is not to attract new customers, but to retain existing ones who have registered email with them a long time ago and simply do not know that there are better options somewhere (or they are afraid of losing their Email out of ignorance, although it is quite possible to set up forwarding in the Rambler settings to an email in another service that you want to use as the main one). IMHO ().
  4. Outlook.com(formerly Hotmail) is the successor to the Internet's oldest public mail service (Hotmail). Why Microsoft needed to rebrand is not entirely clear to me (it is possible that Hotmail has already become associated with something not of very high quality). The interface of the service is extremely simple and understandable, but the settings system seemed to me very clumsy (or just not customarily done). You can figure it out, but not with half a poke.

    At one time, I wrote a little about this mail service, along with a description of the work of the Bing search engine (the brainchild of the same Microsoft):

    In general, MelkoSoft has some kind of aggravation with the renaming of services. Relatively recently, I wrote an article about. Apparently there is too much money and they spend it on the promotion of new brands. I don't keep up with them. Now the article about cloud storage will have to be edited.

    Regarding Outlook.com. With security, everything is not bad with them (still they would have been bad with such and such budgets). By default, a newly registered mailbox is given 5 GB, which will then increase as needed. And in OneDrive (this is their version of cloud storage, not bad, by the way, although it changes names all the time), they give another 15 GB for free to ordinary users, and as many as 25 GB for Windows license holders. I can’t say about the spam cutter and virus check, but everything should be on the level, because the owners are hefty rich bourgeois.

  5. Yahoo Mail- another bourgeois service of a very respectable age. Their offer is the most generous - 1 TB of free space. Access is via the HTTPS protocol, but it’s difficult to judge security, because I’m not very familiar with this e-mail system yet (I’m thinking of writing a separate note about it).

    The interface looks quite nice (it is possible to change the theme). As far as I understand, if you do not use the box for a long time (more than six months), your account in this system is automatically deleted. In general, the dimensions of the box are moving, but read that in the above publication.

  6. - for those who are very much concerned about the security of their correspondence. Here letters are sent in secure envelopes (encrypted) and only those who have the password can read them. The service in the database is free, but if you need more space for mail, you will have to pay extra.
  7. - there are quite a few online services that provide disposable and anonymous mailboxes that can be used without registration. They are great for signing up somewhere where you don't want to use your primary email.

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Spam, advertising, an invitation to a new online game, an electronics store promotion, an assignment from the boss, photos from a family holiday - it seems that there is nothing in common between them. But this is what the inbox of a regular email account looks like. Many people recommend using two accounts: work (for business correspondence) and personal (for everything else). But what if we just use Services mail optimal?

Temporary mail

Sometimes you have to register on some site that you plan to visit only once or twice. Without this, you cannot access the information or file that you so badly need. But after registering, you find that your box is filled with spam, advertising and other nonsense. You can spend time unsubscribing from notifications and filtering settings, but it's easier to use a temporary email address.

dropmail

The address is valid indefinitely, but only until the user refreshes the page. But even if you accidentally close a tab or press F5, don't worry. The service makes it possible to return access to previous addresses:


  • Unlimited number of disposable boxes.
  • Ability to restore access.
  • Forwarding incoming messages to another address.
  • Multilingual.
  • Bots for Telegram and Viber.
  • Can't send messages.
  • Incoming messages from all addresses go to one folder.
  • The address is tied to a browser tab.
  • Blocked by most filters.

Crazymailing

To access the full functionality, you will have to register using any social network: Twitter, VK, Google+. After that, in addition to temporary mail, you will be able to send messages and use up to 10 emails at the same time. Each address has an individual validity time and message folders. A regular user can add 10 minutes per click, a registered user can add 30 minutes. The maximum time email service does not limit.

  • Unlimited duration extension.
  • Sending messages.
  • Forwarding emails to real email.
  • Support for Russian and English languages.
  • Extension for Google Chrome.
  • 10 addresses per 1 account.
  • Full functionality only after registration.
  • Mail cannot be recovered.
  • Messages are sent with a long delay.
  • The maximum file size to send is 10 megabytes.

Mohmal

You can choose a random name or come up with your own. This allows you to give other people an address that does not consist of random letters and numbers. The duration is static - 46 minutes, which can be reset to the original value any number of times.

  • Choosing an email name.
  • Multilingual.
  • Ergonomic design.
  • There are no additional mailboxes.
  • No redirect.
  • It is necessary to constantly extend the time.

Minuteinbox

The best mail service among temporary, if you know English at least at a basic level. The main feature is user customization of working time.

In theory, this box can be used as a permanent box, if you update the duration once a month. Each incoming message can be downloaded to a computer and opened with any mail program: Microsoft Outlook, The Bat!, Lotus Notes, and so on.

  • Long duration of action.
  • Convenient interface.
  • There is no Russian language.
  • No redirect.

permanent e-mail

To register the main accounts in social networks and online stores, to communicate with friends and acquaintances, and so on, it is better to use permanent mail. This allows you to easily restore access to your accounts if you forgot your password and receive up-to-date information about discounts and promotions. There are a huge number of such services, so users prefer most popular mail Services for registration. Consider the most common domestic and foreign services.

Domestic Services

At the moment it is the most popular email service in the CIS. At the beginning of 2018, more than 20 million people used its services. To create an account, you must specify:

  • First and last name. It is better to use real data so that there are no problems with password recovery later.
  • Date of birth. Better real.
  • Desired account name.
  • Password.
  • Current phone number to be verified.

If we talk about security, then the user can set up two-factor authentication and link an additional mailbox, which will also receive confirmation messages.

The interface has not changed since 2006, but most recently, on June 20, 2018, the Mail.ru team prepared a global update.

It is still in beta testing, but is already available to users via the link new.mail.ru. In addition to the new interface, the developers have added a neural network to protect the account, the ability to pay fines from the traffic police, the Smart Groups system, which automatically sorts all incoming messages.

  • Simple and user friendly interface.
  • Multilingual.
  • Cloud storage and unlimited email storage.
  • Other email services allow you to use your Mail.ru account as an additional one.
  • Advertising and spam are easily filtered.
  • Messages may arrive late.
  • You can't register without a phone number.
  • Some emails are automatically sent to the Spam folder, even if there are no objective reasons for this.

The pros and cons refer to the old version, which will be changed soon. With the full release of the update, the information will be edited.

Yandex Mail

The second most popular postal service in the CIS. Registration is no different from Mail.ru. Of the features, we highlight the ability to fully customize the interface for yourself - from the background to the location of buttons and folders on the page. Reliable email with good automatic filtering and sorting of incoming emails.

  • Fine tuning of the interface.
  • Timeline for searching emails.
  • Good spam protection.
  • The box size is limited (for new users - 10 gigabytes).
  • A phone number is required to register.
  • The interface looks somewhat outdated.

"Email pensioners"

In the past these were popular mail services used by millions of people. But at the moment they are morally and functionally obsolete, which makes their use irrational. The decline in activity occurred in 2010-2014, so the interface has not changed since those years in 99% of cases. These include:

  • Ukr.net.
  • Rambler mail.
  • MetaMail.

If you have a mailbox from this list, we recommend creating a new one (on a different, more modern service) and setting up forwarding of all incoming messages to it. Otherwise, you risk losing all information if the service ceases to exist.

Foreign postal services

International postal services are quite different from domestic ones. At the beginning it is not so noticeable, but after a few months you can already feel the difference. Especially when it comes to security and privacy. Let's look at specific examples.

A Gmail account gives you access to all Google programs and services. The possibilities and benefits of such an account are so extensive that they deserve a separate article. Therefore, we will focus only on the e-mail box.

The standard interface is quite user-friendly, but you can always customize it to your liking. Registration is standard, but the phone number can be omitted, which simplifies the registration process several times. After it, you get 20 gigabytes of cloud storage and unlimited email space.

Security in Gmail is at a very high level. If there is any suspicion that the mail is not used by the owner, the service sends a notification and asks for confirmation. It sounds like paranoia, but given the account's close relationship with all Google services, it's a perfectly adequate precaution. For maximum security, it is advisable to enable two-factor authentication and set up an additional password recovery box.

  • Security.
  • Accurate spam and ad filtering.
  • Support for over 80 languages.
  • Quick registration on most sites through a Gmail account.
  • Nobody likes Google+.
  • In the mobile application, notifications may be delayed.

If you need mail for important personal matters, feel free to use Gmail. At the moment, this is the best service in terms of reliability and functionality.

Hotmail (Outlook)

Hotmail was a free email service with over 350 million users in total. In the early 2000s, Microsoft bought out Hotmail, and after 2012 it became an Outlook service.

In 2017, a beta switch was added to allow users to test upcoming changes to Outlook Mail. The updated version has faster mailing, more ergonomic interface and the ability to search by Emoji.

  • Poor spam filtering.
  • The mobile app is unstable.

Elite mailbox

When registering an email in a regular service, you can only choose a username, not a domain name. No, there is a certain choice, but it is limited to 3-4 options. For example, you decide to create an account in Outlook. Then your mailbox address will be:

If you choose the right login, then the address looks good. But think about how many accounts in the world have a domain name "@hotmail.com" or "@outlook.com". Thinking? Okay, now imagine that you are the only person in the world with such a domain. Your messages are immediately recognized, your email address is difficult to enter incorrectly, you want to do business with you. How to get a unique box?

The process itself is simple, but such an email will cost money. In most cases paid postal services are used to create corporate (business) mail, but can also be used for personal use. Paid accounts have no ads, spam is reliably blocked, and security is at the highest level. The only disadvantage inherent in most paid services is the lack of the Russian language.

We will not consider G Suite, Yandex.Mail for Domain and other services that require the user to have their own domain, to which mail will be linked.

1and1

The most famous paid mail with millions of users. Provides services at several rates, the cheapest - $ 1 per month for the first year of use. For this money, you get your own domain name, as well as 2 gigabytes of email space.

  • Simple registration.
  • Convenient interface.
  • 24/7 support.
  • No ads or spam.
  • In a year, the cost of the service will increase significantly.
  • There is no Russian language.

fastmail

Heads top mail services with paid registration. You can choose from over 40 domain names for $3/month or your own for $5/month. It's more expensive than other services, but there is a monthly Trial version.

  • There is no Russian language.
  • High price.

runbox

Norwegian email launched in 2013. Data centers are located in Norway, which guarantees non-disclosure of personal data by the service. An excellent choice if you work with confidential documents and/or information. You can only pay for an annual subscription - from $20 for a regular account (1 gigabyte for mail, domain only from the list) to $80 (25 gigabytes for mail, any email address, up to 25 mailboxes per account).

  • Security and privacy.
  • Monthly Trial version.
  • Wide functionality.
  • Convenient interface.
  • No monthly payment.
  • There is no Russian language.

In the article, we have considered more than 10 mail services. Some are better, some are worse, but they are all trusted and trusted mailers with millions of followers. If you need an e-mail, you can choose any, but we advise:

  1. Dropmail.me - temporary mail for registration.
  2. Gmail.com is a free mail account covering all Google services.
  3. Fastmail.com is a paid e-mail box for work and transmission of important information.

Basic requirements for a good postal service

Security

Virus protection, privacy and data protection

Spam filtering

Availability of effective spam filters.

Interface convenience

Convenient control panel, attractive design, accessibility and visibility of advanced options.

Box volume

Possibility of long-term storage of a sufficiently large amount of information

Translators and spell checking service

The presence of these features is especially important if you communicate with representatives of other countries or conduct business correspondence.

Data backup, file storage, offline operation.

These options are important to ensure the safety of your correspondence and received data.

The best post. 10 most popular free services for receiving and sending mail

gmail

Google's mail service

One of the most stable and reliable email services

Key features:
Integrated 15 GB cloud file storage (but Gmail shares it with Google Photo, Google Drive and other services that are part of a Google account)
One of the best spam detection and filtering algorithms
Stable and reliable 24/7 operation with virtually no failures
Simple but smartly designed interface, convenient search for emails, message fragments
All messages are automatically divided into categories, such as "Basic", "Advertising", "Forums", etc.
Sophisticated privacy protection

POP and IMAP standards give Gmail access to any email program and devices.
Gmail places contextual advertising next to read emails.

Yandex mail service

Convenient and reliable mail.

Key features:

The service is equipped with an integrated anti-virus service from Dr.Web.

Able to translate letters from foreign languages ​​into Russian.

Key Features:
unlimited box volume;
panel for managing other mailboxes;
access from any device (tablets, smartphones, laptops);
built-in organizer;
a set of tools for processing letters (design, editing, verification).

Yandex.Mail can function as a full IMAP client.

Mail.ru

Postal service company Mail.ru

Key features:
good speed: the service executes user commands in a fraction of a second;
convenient interaction with the remote file storage "Cloud": the capacity of a personal disk can be 100 GB;
convenient marking of incoming messages;
the presence of a multi-profile mode of operation (the ability to simultaneously work with several boxes);
support for transferring "heavy" files;
processing of uploaded images (size adjustment, viewing);
grouping messages into threads

Outlook.com

Microsoft mail service

Provides many features, especially for working in Microsoft Office.
A good option for an office worker.
This is a simple service, but in terms of functionality it is not inferior to Gmail.
Key features:
15 GB free storage provided (but shared between Office and OneCloud and other Microsoft services)
Synchronization with other storages is provided.
All important messages are automatically highlighted and collected in one folder.
Invitations and event messages can be synchronized with the calendar.
There's built-in support for Skype, as well as access to Evernote, PayPal, GIPHY, Yelp, Uber, and more.

Also, Outlook.com can offer you help in composing a letter.

Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo!

The interface of the service resembles Gmail, but the functionality is more modest. However, there are additions.
Key features:
There is a convenient filter for messages.
Synchronization with Facebook is provided.
Import contacts from other services, such as Facebook, Gmail, Outlook, etc.
1TB paid storage available.
Support for other email accounts that support the IMAP or POP standards.
integration with Dropbox cloud storage.

In terms of functionality, Yahoo is inferior to Gmail and Outlook.
At the same time, use Yahoo! very convenient: free-form labeling and smart folders, spam cleaning filter works effectively

Apple's mail service

iCloud Mail is Apple's free email service with ample storage, IMAP access, and an interesting functional web application.

With iCloud Mail, not only can you access your emails from any of your Apple devices, but you can also manage calendars and contacts and sync information.
If you receive an email, it will be immediately available on all your devices

However, the iCloud.com interface does not offer shortcuts or other features for productivity or email organization, nor does it support access to other e-service accounts.
Access to POP in iCloud.com is also missing.

ZohoMail

Business oriented mail service

Zoho Mail offers an online office suite, document management and many collaboration tools and other add-ons that will be useful for corporate use.

Key features:
supports up to 25 users at the same time in one domain
each of them has their own mailbox with 5 GB of storage
offers online office suites

Zoho Mail is designed for professional users to become their mail distribution assistant by identifying key messages and contacts and sending out templates for frequently used responses.

Rambler.ru

Rambler postal service

A simple and intuitive service for working with mail.
However, the service cannot seriously compete with Gmail, Yandex Mail and Mile.ru.
It is less functional, the security issue remains open, the settings for serious work with a large amount of correspondence are clearly not enough.
The volume for storing letters is relatively small - the box is intended for sole use and Rambler mail cannot offer anything to corporate clients.

Main advantages
- fast registration and easy management
- quick image browsing: swipe through a photo in one swipe
- the ability to collect mail from other services (Mail.ru, Yandex.Mail, Gmail, Qip.ru, Outlook)

Rambler mail can be accessed through profiles in social networks VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal.

inbox.com

Service developed by the Gmail team

Inbox is "a completely different type of inbox designed to focus on what really matters". (phrase from the official Gmail blog).

The web service and the mobile apps for Android and iOS Inbox aim to improve email productivity and organization through several key features.
Kits (bundles) gather emails of the same subject together, extract information about key details from messages, and reminders help users control when certain information appears.
Inbox helps you stay in control and focus on what matters.

For the convenience of users, similar messages are grouped into categories, and the most important messages are displayed immediately. Any letter can be postponed for later and create a reminder for each case
With Inbox.com cloud storage, there is no need to delete emails to save space.

A.I.M.Mail

Email service company AOL (American media conglomerate)

AIM Mail (AOL Instant Messenger) is known as a free email service with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection, and a rich, easy-to-use interface.

AIM Mail has spam protection and strong security features.
The rich interface makes AIM Mail easy to use and integrates calendar, chat and social networks.
AIM Mail offers unlimited online email storage space and access to POP or IMAP.

There is an AIM panel with a complete list of friends, as well as built-in widgets that show the presence of friends online, as well as shortcut links to popular websites that sponsor AOL Instant Messenger.
However, AIM Mail has a slight lack of productivity (no labels, smart folders, and comments on text messages related to the same topic or question), but some of these gaps are filled by very functional IMAP and POP accesses.

The most reliable mail: 4 most reliable mail services

These services can be used as additional services in cases where privacy and security issues are most important to you.

What are the criteria for choosing reliable mail?

Reliability is determined by the following factors:
1. Protection of mail from hacking and interception by third parties.
2. Confidentiality - protection of information from the developers themselves.
3. Refusal of developers from cooperation with special services.

ProtonMail

Secure mail from Switzerland

The company has extensive experience and a good reputation for providing a secure platform to users, especially journalists who are interested in a high level of privacy.

Technologies used
End-to-End Encryption
Messages are stored on ProtonMail servers in an encrypted format. They are also transmitted in an encrypted format between servers and user devices.
Encrypted user data is not available to the administration of the service
The data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that the administration does not have access to. (For this reason, the service cannot perform data recovery if, for example, you forgot your password).
Time-tested and reliable encryption algorithms
Only secure implementations of AES, RSA, and OpenPGP are used.
In addition, all cryptographic libraries used are open source. The use of open source libraries ensures that the encryption algorithms used by the service do not have hidden built-in functions.

The company offers a free Proton VPN service for Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows platforms to combat Internet censorship, allowing you to bypass restrictions and access blocked sites.

ProtonMail also provides the world's first encrypted contact manager, ProtonMail Contacts, which aims to protect user data with encryption and digital signature features.

Mailfence

Email encryption service from Belgium

Mailfence offers OpenPGP-based end-to-end encryption that ensures that sent and received messages between the user and the recipient are not read by anyone else. The user can also access the Mailfence account via SMTP and IMAP using any email client.

Belgium has strict privacy laws. Under Belgian law, all national and international supervisory requests must go through a Belgian court.

Additional features of Mailfence:
OpenPGP - end-to-end encryption (supports PGP/MIME and built-in PGP)
Offers SPF, DKIM, TFA, spam protection and user blacklisting.
Integrated key storage
Full compatibility with OpenPGP
Two-factor authentication

CounterMail

Secure mail service from Switzerland

CoutnerMail provides end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for hackers to read your email.
The service has over 4000 types of encryption keys.

The Company does not store email data on the server or hard drives. This means that attackers will not be able to track emails, so data leakage is out of the question.
CounterMail also guarantees protection from government data surveillance.

Additional features of CounterMail:
Comprehensive Security
Diskless web servers
USB key option
Defense against MITM attack (man in the middle)
Applications for Android and iOS

Tutanota

Secure mail from Germany

Tutanota provides open source end-to-end encrypted email and a secure Freemium-based email service designed to protect user communications.
Since Tutanota is based on an open source model, its development is faster than many other similar services.

Additional features of Tutanota:
End-to-End Encryption
open source
Applications for Android and iOS
Users can send and receive encrypted messages from regular email users

In this section, you can use various functions to manage your mailboxes. For example, you can add new mailboxes, set up an autoresponder in case you can't reply to the sender, enable or disable mailboxes, and customize mail sorting.

Module "Mailboxes"

Sort mail Set up mail Enable a dedicated mailbox Temporarily disable a dedicated mailbox

Viewing a list of mailboxes

Create a new mailbox

To add a new mailbox, click the "Create" button and fill out the form, which consists of several tabs:

basic settings

Module "Mailboxes"

  • Name- specify the name of the box, which will be indicated before the sign @ in the email address. You can use lowercase Latin letters, numbers, dashes and dots.
  • Domain- from the list, select the domain name that will be used after the sign @ in the email address.
  • Aliases- specify additional postal addresses that you can use for this mailbox. Mail sent to one of these addresses will be automatically forwarded to the user's mailbox. Enter multiple addresses here, separated by spaces. The primary mailing address (Name@Domain) is not required. All aliases work only for the main mailbox domain, so you do not need to specify the domain part of the mailbox.
  • Password- enter the password to enter the mailbox.
  • Confirmation- repeat the password to make sure you entered it correctly.
  • Max. the size- Specify the maximum amount of disk space that can be occupied by the contents of the mailbox.
  • Send copies of letters to e-mail- Specify email addresses or local user names to which copies of all incoming messages for this mailbox will be automatically redirected.
  • Do not save to drawer- check the box to prevent forwarded mail from being stored in the local mailbox. If you do not want to save mail in a box, specify at least one forwarding address in the "Send copies of letters to e-mail" field.

Note

Field for entering additional information.

Editing mailbox settings

To change the parameters of an existing mailbox, select it from the list, click the "Edit" button and edit it. The form for editing is similar to the form for creating a new mailbox.

You cannot change the name of an existing mailbox and the domain on which it was created.

Setting up an answering machine

You can set up your mail server to automatically send a message in response to incoming email. This can be useful, for example, if you will be away for a while and want mail senders to know that you will read it when you return. Or so that your customers know that their message has been delivered and is waiting to be processed.

To do this, you can use the mailbox autoresponder. Select the desired mailbox in the list, click the "Auto Reply" button and fill in the fields of the following form:

Module "Mailboxes"

  • From- specify the name and email address that will be indicated in the address of the sender of the autoresponder message.
  • Subject- this line will be indicated in the subject line of all autoresponder messages.
  • Message- the text of the answering machine message. If you want to disable the auto-reply, clear this field.
  • Attach file- select the file you want to attach to the autoresponder message.
  • Turn on autoresponder- check the box to enable the auto-reply.

The answering machine works once a day (introduced in order not to loop when the answering machine answers the answering machine). To reactivate the autoresponder earlier than in a day, you can reset /var/www/username/data/email/mail.test/box/.responder.db.

Deleting mailboxes

To delete a mailbox, select it from the list and click the "Delete" button. To prevent accidental deletions, the control panel will ask you to confirm or cancel your action. If you click "OK" in the confirmation window, all selected mailboxes will be deleted.

Deleting the contents of a mailbox

This function is used to clear the contents of a mailbox. To do this, select the required mailbox from the list and click the "Clear" button. To prevent accidental deletion, the program will ask you to confirm or cancel your actions. After clicking the "OK" button, the contents of the selected mailbox will be deleted.

Switching to the panel with mail user rights

If necessary, the administrator can log into the control panel with the rights of another account, for example, if he has questions about working with the panel. To go to the user level, select it in the list and click the "Login" button.

After moving to the level of the selected user, you will see the control panel as it is seen by this mail user.

To return to the previous level, use the link located after the welcome line.

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"What is email?" - one of the most popular questions asked by novice Internet users. Needless to say, how justified is this curiosity? After all, e-mail (mailbox) in its essence and functions is an integral and mandatory attribute even for ordinary users.

So, dear reader, if you are taking your first steps in the field of digital communications online, this article will definitely benefit you. In it, you will get acquainted with the best mail services, learn about their functional advantages and features. Plus, after reading the reviews, you won't be puzzled over the choice of email. You will already know for sure which mail service suits you best.

Definition and types of e-mail

Well, for starters, let's get acquainted with the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the article:

An electronic mailbox is a special online service that allows an Internet user to send text messages and files (photos, videos, documents) to other users via a network connection. Also, e-mail (box) can be used to activate and verify an account during registration on other web services - forums, blogs, sites.

All mail services operating on the Web are divided into two large groups according to the period of delivery of mailboxes:

  1. Permanent (registered e-mail can be used for an unlimited amount of time - 1, 2 years, 5 years, etc.). Best suited for business correspondence, reading newsletters from services, as contact information.
  2. Temporary (the generated profile self-destructs along with all the data it contains after a specified period - after 10-20 minutes, half an hour or 1 month). Designed to hide a permanent e-mail in order to combat spam, to send messages anonymously and perform quick registration on sites if there is no permanent e-mail.

Popular mail services

Here is a list of email web resources that have proven themselves in practice among beginners and advanced users. Let's take a look at the categories above.

Note. All services described in this article are free.

Permanent

gmail

A service from the creators of the legendary Google search engine. Supports almost all current protocols used to send data via Internet channels (IMAP, POP3, SMTP). In 2012, it surpassed its main competitor, Microsoft's mail service, in popularity. According to statistical studies, its user audience is over 420 million people.

Gmail differs from analogues in the most convenient management and a huge number of useful additional options. The service allows you to quickly find the necessary "branch" of correspondence, letter, address, contact. It reliably protects the profile from advertising and virus mailings using a powerful spam filter: spam is detected and blocked with high accuracy. Fully supports work on iOS and Android mobile platforms.

You can send large files using Gmail. By default, a registered user on Google Mail is provided with 15 GB of file storage.

One of the best solutions for sending virtual correspondence in Runet. The service has been operating on the Web since 2000. It is equipped with an automatic filter for advertising and potentially dangerous mailings - Spamodefense, as well as the Dr.Web anti-virus module that checks outgoing and incoming messages for malware.

More than 27 million people use Yandex Mail every month. It sends over 130 million emails a day (not counting spam). It integrates the remote cloud storage Yandex. A 10 GB disk, which allows you to send "heavy" files through the profile.

In 2012, according to ComScore, Yandex.Mail was awarded the honorary title of "The Fastest Growing Service in Europe".

According to social research by the Galappa Institute, in the spring of 2015, the Mail.ru service was the most popular among Russian users. The number of its visitors amounted to over 17.1 million people in the browser version and 1.997 million people. in mobile.

The mailbox on Mail.ru is endowed with all the functions necessary to work with incoming and outgoing letters (filtering, contact list, groups, file attachments). It has a "strict" spam filter that automatically sends all unwanted messages to the Spam folder. Supports multi-authorization mode (simultaneous use of several accounts).

Provides secure data exchange: information is transferred using the HHTPS protocol. In addition to the password, it provides additional means of protection against hacking and unauthorized access: verification by phone, additional e-mail, two-step verification, checking messages with the Kaspersky anti-virus utility.

Mail from the Russian company Rambler. It was launched in August 2000. Equipped with RspamD anti-spam module and ClamAV anti-virus service. On average, it sends out up to 90 million letters per day.

Endowed with a minimalistic design, but has all the necessary features for easy management of correspondence. Supports creating your own rules for blocking specified addresses. Sorts correspondence, automatically saves unsent letters in the "Drafts" folder.

In Russian, it is pronounced as "yahu". One of the very first mail services that appeared on the web. Very easy to use: sends text messages and files with just a few mouse clicks. Able to work with multiple accounts at the same time. Provides registered users with 1GB file storage by default. It has all the necessary software tools to connect to the e-mail account of other services (Outlook, Gmail).

Mail from the creators of the Windows operating system - Microsoft. Ideal for organizing communications with business partners and colleagues. Equipped with a well-thought-out interface: there are no extra buttons and complex settings, all the options necessary for managing correspondence are in plain sight. It has multi-level protection at the stage of authorization in the profile and in the process of sending letters: login with a temporary password, identification via phone, etc. Expands the amount of file storage as the box is used.

Able to recover deleted messages, even if they were removed from the "Recycle Bin". Provides the ability to use email address aliases for registrations on third-party services. Equipped with an HTML/CSS code editor.

Temporary e-mail

Provides a full mailbox for 10 minutes. But at the request of the user, it can extend its existence for another 10-30 minutes. In a temporary profile, you can read all incoming messages with attachments and send a letter to any recipient. And also, if necessary, set up forwarding to a real mailbox. The address on crazymailing.com is generated automatically.

Provides a mailbox for an unlimited period of time. (It will function until the page is closed in the browser.) Accepts emails with attachments, but does not support sending emails. Equipped with a built-in service for forwarding correspondence to another mailbox. It is absolutely safe and does not violate the confidentiality of data: upon completion of the profile operation, all data contained in it is destroyed. The box on the site is created automatically without registration.

Powerful web resource for anonymous transfer of text files and media content without creating a mailbox. Able to send data up to 50 GB. It does not require creating an account and providing personal data. Activates sending in just a few clicks.

After opening the page in the browser, it provides the address for 10 minutes. Using additional buttons in the panel, you can extend its operation (reset the timer), as well as copy the generated address to the clipboard (for pasting on another site).

"Classic" service providing ten-minute boxes. Displays received letters in the "Inbox" block, indicates the sender's e-mail, the message title and the time of receipt. It has additional options: “extend for another 10 minutes”, “refresh the page”, “generate another address”.

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