Hello guys, Today I am going to tell you about some Email service providers.
Formaly Every one knows about gmail but there are so many websites which provides us Email service. So lets start.........
1- Gmail -
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.
Gmail started as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time.
The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as
Hotmail offered at that time. Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view"
similar to an Internet forum.Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux. As of February 2016,
it was the most widely used web-based email provider with over 1 billion active users worldwide. According to a 2014 estimate, 60% of mid-sized US companies were
using Gmail. In May 2014, Gmail became the first app on the Google Play Store to hit one billion installations on Android devices.
On April 1, 2004, Gmail was launched with 1 GB of storage space.
On April 1, 2005, the first anniversary ofGmail, the limit was doubled to 2 GB. Georges Harik, the product management director for Gmail, stated that Google would "keep
giving people more space forever."
On April 24, 2012, Google announced the increase of free storage in Gmail from 7.5 to 10 GB ("and counting") as part of the launch of Google Drive.
On May 13, 2013, Google announced the overall merge of storage across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ Photos allowing users 15 GB of free storage among the three services.
2- Outlook -
Outlook.com is a web-based suite of email, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was
founded in 1996 as Hotmail (stylized as HoTMaiL) by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California, and headquartered in Sunnyvale. Hotmail was
acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite
of products. Microsoft released the final version of Hotmail in October 2011, available in 36 languages. It was replaced by Outlook.com in 2013.
Outlook.com follows Microsoft's Metro design language, closely mimicking the interface of Microsoft Outlook. It also features unlimited storage, a calendar,
contacts management, Ajax, and close integration with OneDrive, Office Online and Skype. In May 2015, it was announced that a preview of the new Outlook.com
will move it to the Office 365 infrastructure. Microsoft concluded its preview stage in February 2016, when it began to roll out the new version to users'
accounts, beginning with North America. As of 2015, Outlook.com had 400 million active users.
Hotmail service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet along with Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail).
It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based email and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world. The name
"Hotmail" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in "-mail" as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the
original type casing was "HoTMaiL"). The limit for free storage was 2 MB. Hotmail was initially backed by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. By December 1997,
it reported more than 8.5 million subscribers. Hotmail initially ran under Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly
converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the migration path.
3- Yahoo mail-
Yahoo Mail is a web-based email service offered by the American company Yahoo!. The service is free for personal use, and paid-for business email plans are
available. It was launched in 1997, and, according to comScore, was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2011.
As many as three web interfaces were available at any given date. The traditional "Yahoo Mail Classic" preserved the availability of their original 1997 interface until
July 2013 in North America. A 2005 version included a new Ajax interface, drag-and-drop, improved search, keyboard shortcuts, address auto-completion and tabs. However
other features were removed, such as column widths and one click delete-move-to-next. In October 2010, Yahoo released a beta version of Yahoo Mail that included
improvements to performance, search and Facebook integration. In May 2011 it became the default interface. Their current Webmail interface was introduced during 2012.
Yahoo Mail had unlimited storage from March 27, 2007 until October 8, 2013.
Features-
Free version
Email storage capacity: 1 TB
Email attachment limit: 25 MB (up to 100 MB via the built-in 'Attach Large Files' app)
Account expiry on inactivity: 12 months. The account can not be retrieved.
Supported protocols: POP3 in Asia or via YPOPs!, IMAP via IMAP proxy or via Zimbra, SMTP, Mail Forwarding in some countries. US Users gained free POP3 and Forwarding access in 2013.
100 filters to automatically sort incoming messages (200 filters for the Plus version)
Spam and virus protection. (See: DomainKeys)
Advertising is displayed on the screen while working with the email account. Text ads are added to the footer of outgoing messages, as of February 2011.
4-AOL mail -
AOL Mail is a free web-based email (webmail) service provided by AOL. The service is sometimes referred to as AIM Mail where AIM stands for AOL
Instant Messenger which is AOL's instant messaging service. During the summer of 2012, AOL Mail got a new look, its first significant overhaul in five years.Features
AOL Mail has the following features available at no cost.
Features-
* Email storage capacity: unlimited
* Email attachment limit: 25 MB
* Account expiry on inactivity: 90 days
* Supported protocols: POP3, SMTP, IMAP
* Link to other email accounts from other service providers (such as Gmail and Hotmail).
* Ads: are displayed while working with the e-mail account. Embedded links within emails are automatically disabled and can only be activated by the email user.
* Spam protection
* Virus protection
* Spell checking
* AIM Panel with a full buddy list, and indicators to show presence of online buddies, as well as shortcuts to sponsored popular web sites.
* email unsend capability (for mails sent to another AOL or AIM mailbox)
* Domains: @aol.com and additionally @love.com, @ygm.com (short for you've got mail), @games.com, and @wow.com
* Supports SSL/HTTPS after login. The new email program by AOL features a Quick Bar where emails, text messages, and AOL Instant Messenger messages can be sent from one area.
* It also lets people add up to five accounts into it. It features a search feature that will load photos, attachments, addresses, and dates from emails. It is currently
being tested and can only be accessed by an invitation.
AOL has stopped work on Project Phoenix, sometime in September 2011.
5- Mail.com-
Mail.com is a web portal and web-based email service provider owned by the German internet company United Internet. It offers news articles and videos and
a free webmail application with unlimited storage.
Features-
Mail.com offers a free, advertising-supported email service with unlimited storage for emails, choice of over 200 domains, online file storage, collecting of emails from
other accounts (which is now a paid for service), organizer, Facebook integration, and spam and virus protection.
Mail.com reserves the right to cancel a domain name for even premium (pay) accounts whenever they decide to do so. Email users that have had the domain of @soon.com
were abruptly notified that their email account is being terminated and there was nothing they can do about it.
Mail.com features unlimited storage and attachments of up to 50mb. In addition to the address chosen at sign-up, users can create up to 9 additional aliases
(for a maximum total of 10 addresses, one of which the user chooses as Default). All 10 user email addresses deliver to the Default user email In Box, so only one
login is required. Users could configure their Mail.com account to collect their emails from other accounts and servers. This service is still free.
6- Yandex mail-
Yandex is a Russian multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products.
Yandex operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products.
Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and
more than 50.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of February 2013. The company's mission is to provide answers to any questions users have or
think about (explicit or implicit). Yandex also has a very large presence in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, providing nearly a third of all search results in those markets
and 43% of all search results in Belarus.
The Yandex.ru home page has been rated the most popular website in Russia. The web site also operates in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Turkey. Yandex Labs is
a wholly owned division of Yandex located in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, Yandex announced plans to open a research and development office in Berlin, Germany.
It opened the first sales office outside the CIS countries in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2012 for its European advertising clients, and the second one in Shanghai,
China in 2015 for Chinese companies that work on the Russian language market
In 1993 Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, friends since their school days and by then working together to develop search software, invented the word "Yandex" to
describe their search technologies. The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer". The Russian word "?" ("Ya") corresponds to the English personal pronoun "I",
making "?ndex" a bilingual pun on "index". Another pun is based on the yin and yang contrast .
7- Gmx.com -
GMX Mail is a free advertising-supported email service provided by GMX (Global Mail eXchange, in Germany: Global Message eXchange). Users may access GMX Mail
via webmail as well as via POP3 and IMAP4 protocols. Founded in 1997, GMX is a subsidiary of United Internet AG, a stock-listed company in Germany, and a sister
company to 1&1 Internet and Fasthosts Internet. In addition to an email address, each GMX account includes a Mail Collector, Address Book, Organizer, and File Storage.
Every user can register up to 10 individual GMX email addresses.Premium or not, users are greeted by pop up ads at login. GMX is currently the only big email provider to
support popup ads. Currently GMX Mail has more than 11 million active users. The company's U.S. data center is located in Lenexa, Kansas.
Additional functionalities:
File sharing capabilities
Virus and spam protection
Drag and Drop capability for files and emails
Fetching external POP3 accounts
Email accounts can be registered with a choice of .com, .co.uk and .us, amongst many others. It allows the addition of up to 10 add-on addresses at different GMX domains.
Its "mail collector" allows for the collection of email from most free email providers including Yahoo, Live, Hotmail and GMail as well as send mail from these addresses,
allowing the management of multiple accounts from one single location. Another feature is its active community participation, where users can suggest features.
GMX developed slightly different clients for their users in Germany and for those internationally. Both remain free for email service, and will direct users to the appropriate
login website through geolocation technology, to GMX.net or GMX.com respectively. The GMX Mail service is based on Qooxdoo, an open source ajax web application framework.
8- iCloud mail-
iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of February 2016, the service had 782 million users.
The service provides its users with means to store data such as documents, photos, and music on remote servers for download to iOS, Macintosh or Windows devices, to share and send
data to other users, and to manage their Apple devices if lost or stolen.
The service also provides the means to wirelessly back up iOS devices directly to iCloud, instead of being reliant on manual backups to a host Mac or Windows computer using iTunes.
Service users are also able to share photos, music, and games instantly by linking accounts via AirDrop wireless.
It replaced Apple's MobileMe service, acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, reminders (to-do lists), iWork documents, photos and other data.
One of Apple's iCloud data centers is located in Maiden, North Carolina, US.
Beginning in 2011, iCloud is based on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure (Apple iOS Security white paper published in 2014, Apple acknowledged that encrypted iOS
files are stored in Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure). In 2016, Apple signed a deal with Google to use Google Cloud Platform for some iCloud services.
History-
iCloud was announced on June 6, 2011, at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple announced that MobileMe would be discontinued after June 30, 2012,
with anyone who had an account before the unveiling of iCloud having their MobileMe service extended to that date, free of charge.
The official website, www.icloud.com, went live in early August for Apple Developers. On October 12, 2011, iCloud became available to use via an iTunes update.
iCloud had 20 million users in less than a week after launch. The iCloud.com domain and registered trademark were bought from a Swedish company called Xcerion,
who rebranded their service to CloudMe. Apple now controls major domains like iCloud.de, iCloud.frand iCloud.es.
A class action lawsuit by customers unhappy over the transition from MobileMe to iCloud was filed in early May 2012.
9- Mail.ru-
Mail.Ru Group (London Stock Exchange listed since November 5, 2010) is a Russian Internet company. It was started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went
on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. As of 2013 according to comScore, websites owned by Mail.Ru collectively had
the largest audience in Russia and captured the most screen time. Mail.Ru's sites reach approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the
company is in the top 5 of largest Internet companies, based on the number of total pages viewed. Mail.Ru controls the 3 largest Russian social networking sites.
It operates the second and third most popular Russian social networking sites, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir, respectively. Mail.Ru holds 100% of shares of Russia's
most popular social network VKontakte and minority stakes in Qiwi, formerly OE Investments (15.04%). It also operates two instant messaging networks
(Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ), an e-mail service and Internet portal Mail.Ru, as well as a number of online games.
History-
The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as spin-off from DataArt.
It received an initial investment of USD 1 million from the well-known investor (and fencing champion) James Melcher.
The Mail.Ru business expanded rapidly to reach the No. 1 market position in Russia by 2000. Attempts to fund the company’s expansion in 2000-2001 were thwarted
by the collapse of the technology bubble and Mail.Ru was forced to seek merger partners.
In 2001, Yuri Milner, who was managing NetBridge (the owner of less popular internet brands) persuaded the well-known entrepreneur Igor Linshits to back a merger
of the Mail.Ru business with NetBridge. Igor Linshits subsequently took an active role in the development of the Mail.Ru business. In connection with the merger,
Milner became Mail.Ru CEO.
The company started to operate under its present name on 16 October 2001. Before that time its brand name was owned by Port.ru. It is headed by Dmitry Grishin.
As of 2009, its global Alexa rating is 29.
In 2003, Milner resigned from Mail.Ru and subsequently set up another internet venture, Digital Sky Technologies (DST). In 2006, Igor Linshits sold his
stake in Mail.Ru to Tiger Fund and Milner's DST for more than $100 million. In September 2010, DST changed its name to Mail.Ru Group. Dmitry Grishin became
one of the Mail.Ru Group co-founders.
10- Lycos-
Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email,
webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
History-
Lycos is a university spin-off that began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus in 1994. Lycos Inc.
was formed with approximately US $2 million ($3.2 million today) in venture capital funding from CMGI. Bob Davis became the CEO and first employee of the new company
in 1995, and concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal. Lycos enjoyed several years of growth during the 1990s and became the most
visited online destination in the world in 1999, with a global presence in more than 40 countries.
In 1996, the company completed the fastest IPO from inception to offering in NASDAQ history. In 1997, it became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world.
In 1998, Lycos paid $58 million ($84.2 million today) for Tripod in an attempt to "break into the portal market." Over the course of the next few years, Lycos acquired
nearly two dozen internet brands including Gamesville, WhoWhere, Wired Digital (eventually sold to Wired), Quote.com, Angelfire, Matchmaker.com and Raging Bull.
Lycos Europe was a joint venture between Lycos and the Bertelsmann transnational media corporation, but it has always been a distinct corporate entity. Although LycosEurope remains the largest of Lycos's overseas ventures, several other companies also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.
Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica,
for $12.5 billion ($17.8 billion today). The acquisition price represented a return of nearly 3000 times the company's initial venture capital investment and about 20 times
its initial public offering valuation. The transaction closed in October 2000 and the merged company was renamed Terra Lycos, although the Lycos brand continued to be used in the
United States. Overseas, the company continued to be known as Terra Networks.
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