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Email Service Providers

       If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. Your chosen free email service will reward you with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast and productive interface, desktop email program as well as mobile access, and more. 

       Email service provider (ESP) is an organization which provides email servers to send, receive, and store email for other organizations and/or end users.

     One of the most popular among ESP is Gmail; 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 was launched 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, which is larger than many other mail services support. 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 June 2012, it has 425 million active users worldwide.

    Another example of ESP is Yahoo Mail. It  is a free e-mail service offered by the American search engine company Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997, and, according to comScore, Yahoo! Mail was the second largest web-based email service with 310 million users as of October 2011, and the most popular webmail service in the United States. Currently, Yahoo! offers three versions of Yahoo! Mail. The traditional "Yahoo! Mail Classic" continues the availability of the original interface introduced in 1997. A new version introduced in 2005 included a new Ajax interface, drag-and-drop, improved search functionality, keyboard shortcuts, address auto-complete, tabs, and more. In October 2010, Yahoo! released a new beta version of Yahoo! Mail, which included a new design, improved performance, improved search functionality, and improved Facebook integration. In May 2011, beta testing for the new version stopped, and it became the default interface for Yahoo! Mail.In early 2008, Yahoo! started offering unlimited mail storage to its users, in response to heated competition in the free-web mail market segment. On June 27, 2009, Yahoo! Messenger was integrated with Yahoo! Mail.

  

     Hotmail, officially Microsoft and previously Window Live Hotmail. Hotmail features unlimited storage, Ajax, and integration with Microsoft's instant messaging (Windows Live Messenger), calendar (Hotmail Calendar), file hosting service (SkyDrive), and contacts platform.According to comScore (June 2012), Hotmail is the world's largest web-based email service with 324 million members, followed by Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, respectively. It is available in 36 different languages. Another feature of hotmail is Quick views and one-click filters. It allows users to filter all emails (in all folders) by document attachments, photo attachments, flagged messages, or shipping updates. One-click filters allow users to filter the inbox (or specific folder) based on whether or not the email message is unread, from the Windows Live Contacts list, from group mailing lists or Windows Live Groups, or from a social networking website. Categories appear under Quick views for ease of access.