Inbox.com provides free Email service with a storage capacity of 5GB. The service is fast an functional and is a great way to access your mails online. Inbox also offers POP and SMTP access. With 5GB of space available, Inbox.com can be used as your online storage space. The interface of Inbox is really fast and functional and Ajax based. The top navigational panel has Email, Organizer, contacts, Storage and Photos.
Coming to the features of Inbox.com Mail service;
- 5GB of online storage space.
- Fast web interface (Ajax based).
- POP3 and SMTP access.
- Organize mails using Star, Labels, Folders and Filters.
- Aggressive spam filter mechanism.
- Send mails up to 30MB in size.
- Organizer, Storage and photos integrated into Email.
In one of my previous posts on Gmail, there was lot of discussion that labels are superior than folders. Inbox offers both folders and label support. Labels can be created with different colors for easy identification. Labeling a mail is further simple process. All you have to do is to right click on the mail and add the mail to the label. Inbox also allows you to customize the look of your inbox with 8 skins available.
Another unique feature of Inbox is the spam mechanism. Inbox.com filters spam using varying aggressive or a challenge/response mechanism. Users can create a white list and a black list of emails for spam prevention. Further there is another feature called Challenge /Response mechanism. Challenge/Response Spam Protection helps you to reduce the amount of spam received in your Inbox. If you decide to use Challenge / Response Spam Protection, then anyone not included in your contact list or White List who will send you an email will receive an email containing a confirmation link. Only if the sender confirms the link with the words contained in the mail, the mail would be placed in Inbox, otherwise the mail will be placed in the folder Unverified. Users can approve or reject senders in Unverified list.
There is also 4 levels of spam options-Low, Middle, High and Exclusive.
Another feature which I liked in Inbox is the integration of Organizer and Storage in mailbox. The storage folder has 3 folders by default-My Documents, My Music and My Photos. Not only you add more folders to the storage, you can even create any number of sub folders to these folders. Storage space limit is the Inbox mail box limit (5GB). The photos folder can be assigned into different categories and its easy to share and print photos.
Inbox.com also supports POP3 and SMTP access, which makes your account available from within your local email client like Outlook, Eudora, etc. Inbox also has External POP3 support. This feature allows you to monitor several email accounts and check them for incoming messages from your Inbox.com account. This feature supports SSL, so you can download messages also from emails that require SSL, such as Gmail.
Now coming to the cons of Inbox.com
- It does not support IMAP access.
- Needs a credit card to create an account- This is one way helpful in reducing people creating false accounts, but in another way not good in sense that people without credit cards cannot create accounts. They do not charge anything for creating account. Credit card is used only for verification.
- 5GB storage space is available only in US, Canada and UK, rest all places its 2GB.
Inbox also offers 30GB storage with back ups for a paid account.
Verdict: Inbox is definitely worth trying and using as a primary mail account. I recommend Inbox for people who want to create a new mail account.
You can learn more about features and details in the FAQ section.
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I’ve heard a lot about inbox but never tried it.
It offers great features, I’m going to try it.
@Sunil,
I was really surprised to see the features it has to offer. Really worth trying.
i first heard about inbox in Digit magazine …it offer great service but never used it ..don’t have time manage multiple mail accounts
Seems cool, signed up and looks cool – still Gmail and LiveMail is my love
A question to you Nirmal, I wonder having more than crores of users, Yahoo don’t give POP3 service in free accounts :S ?
@Rishi,
You are right, I too waiting for Yahoo to provide POP3 access. Maybe because there is no sufficient competition from others, Yahoo is still on top considering the number users.
BTW I use Yahoo and Live mail, recently started using Inbox.
Some of My Frnds are Using this Service and they are Happy with it.
The features looks great! Will give it a try right now
I like the interface more than GMails, but the last thing I need is another e-mail address.
I wonder how you people use multiple accounts. I use GMail and manage my Y! account also from it.
One mail service to rule them all – GMail + Better GMail Extention.
I was using it before a year .. but now happy with Gmail.
seems like it’s worth giving a try..
How long has Inbox.com been aruond? Just curious.
heh I am already tired of all the accounts I have and the 100s of email I receive everyday. I am happy with your review of this Nirmal but doubt I will have the time to try this…
@Ashwin,
It depends from user to user. Some like to have many accounts for handling different mails.
@Deepak,
Its really worth trying.
@Grace,
I’m not sure when it was launched exactly. But I have found people using it from 2004.
@Shawn,
Nice to see you after a long time.
Yes, it does give a lot of good features, But at this time shifting from you primary mail to another is not much feasible. But it can be tried
Why do they ask for credit card details?
@Adheeth,
Credit card is for verification purpose, they dont charge, just to check you a valid user.
it really is cool and much easier
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Have heard about this service before but didn’t give a try yet. I have tried its variant runbox.com for a pro account. Their service was prompt.
I tried to register, but they asking card details
@Vijay,
Please read it carefully. Inbox does ask credit card for verification purpose.
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I signed up at inbox without a creditcard, so i dont know where you got that info at.
also alot of my friends have done the same.
repeat, YOU DO NOT NEED A CREDIT CARD.
inbox.com is awesome.
@Josh,
When did you sign up for Inbox? When I signed up it asked me the credit card info and also for a few of my friends, that why I mentioned it.
Hey, I signed up in early August, no cc required. However, I am not exactly pleased with service. Every now and then it just shuts off completely… Right now for example, the whole website is not working at all, or at other times the website works but the log in just keeps trying and not going through. Very annoying especially when you are waiting for an email!! Can’t even downloaded the messages through outlook right now
@Kayla,
It seems like you had a bad experience with Inbox. Seems like a problem with Inbox.
if i may ask, what countries are available for inbox.com? I am from Philippines and i cant sign up.
What country does inbox.com originate?
@Frinza,
What is the error it is showing while registering? I think inbox is available everywhere, its from US i think.
Be warned that this service is slow to send outbound e-mails. Testing shows typical delays of 10 to 15 minutes, or longer. E-mail is not an immediate communications venue, like a chat room, but that is too long a delay. The delay can be seen by reviewing the Received headers to see when you submitted the e-mail (also check your own e-mail client just in case what they list is different) to when it finally submits it to the target (recipient’s) mail host.
Also, every outbound e-mail that you send through their “free” service will get spamified. That is, they will append spam onto your outbound e-mails sent through their service. There was no spam signature when using their webmail interface, only when using their POP3 access (which is the only means that I intend to use to provide for local management of my e-mails). So be aware that your outbound e-mails sent through their POP3 server will probably be seen as spam. Lots of other “free” e-mail services do this, too, so it is something to watch for. Personally I never use any “free” service that generates spam “on my behalf”. Free should not equate to spam.
Be aware that their description of their POP3 access is that it is currently in beta testing during which that service will remain free. Once it is out of beta, they reserve the right to change the conditions of its use. Well, duh, guess what that means? When it is no longer beta, they are going to charge for it.
This is a good one indeed Nirmal.Even I am using since long.
Hey i needed this type of service to subscribe on various sites.