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While I was traveling the last couple of weeks, one of the tools I used to keep up with my email was the mobile version of Mail2Web.com<\/a>. Mail2Web is a well established (the web version has been around for almost ten years) service with an excellent privacy policy<\/a> that lets you retrieve POP3 or IMAP mail from any server using a Web, PDA or WAP1 wml interface. Mail2Web even works with services like Gmail which require a secure login.<\/p>\n
I may be starting to sound like a broken record but I again had trouble using this site with my phone’s built-in Openwave V7 browser. This generally reliable browser was not recognized by Yahoo’s Mail Beta, Hotmail or MSN Live Mail. In those cases I blame the sites rather than the browser, see my previous post<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n
The Mail2web PDA user interface is pretty good although somewhat different than most mobile web e-mail services. There is no way to delete an e-mail while viewing the message body. There is a next<\/em> link to go to the next message but deleting is handled in the Inbox view where there are checkboxes in front of each message title and a Delete Selected<\/em> button (bottom image). This meant that I couldn’t do the speed test in exactly the same manner as with Gmail, Live Mail and Y!Mail. What I did was take the time and clicks required to load 10 successive e-mails and then delete them. Dividing by 10 gave me the time and clicks per e-mail. It worked out to 15 seconds and about 7 clicks per e-mail. Not nearly as fast as Gmail but still second fastest overall. I’ve updated the table from my Mobile Mail Speed Test<\/a> post to include Mail2Web(below). Mail2Web is also the only mobile e-mail site tested that offers the option to view html formatted e-mails as html.<\/p>\n
I also found Mail2Web very handy for managing my ISP mail account which gets a lot of SPAM and also receives mail from a mailing list were I’m only interested in a few of the topics covered. I can scan the Inbox headers in Mail2Web and tag the messages I don’t even want to open (obvious SPAM and tired mailing list threads that I’ve had my fill of). Then I hit Delete Selected<\/em> and the unwanted messages are deleted in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n If you have e-mail servers that don’t have a mobile front end but which support POP3 or IMAP, Mail2Web is a good choice – better than Yahoo which also supports retrieving mail from POP3 servers. Mail2Web is faster and it even allows you to send e-mail with a reply to address that points back to your POP3 or IMAP server e-mail account. Finally, if you have a Windows Mobile or Blackerry device, Mail2Web also offers free Microsoft Exchange email accounts with Backberry and ActiveSync support. I don’t have a BB or Microsoft phone so I haven’t used Mail2Web’s Exchange service but there’s a nice writeup<\/a> about it at Mobility Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n See Also: WEBSITE OF THE DAY – mail2web.com<\/a> at Pocket-Lint.co.uk<\/em>, mail2web.com Offers Free Microsoft Exchange Email Service<\/a> at GeekZone<\/em> and Mail2Web Mobile: wml<\/a> cHtml<\/a> Features: While I was traveling the last couple of weeks, one of the tools I used to keep up with my email was the mobile version of Mail2Web.com. Mail2Web is a well established (the web version has been around for almost ten years) service with an excellent privacy policy that lets you retrieve POP3 or IMAP mail from any server using a Web, PDA or WAP1 wml interface. Mail2Web even works with services like Gmail which require a secure login. I … Continue reading Site<\/th>\n Time<\/th>\n Clicks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n Gmail<\/td>\n 5-10<\/td>\n 1-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Mail2Web<\/td>\n 15<\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Y!Mail<\/td>\n 19<\/td>\n 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Live Mail<\/td>\n 21<\/td>\n 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n HotMail<\/td>\n 21<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nFree hosted Exchange service- mail2web<\/a> at jkOnTheRun<\/em><\/p>\n Usability:
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