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and any other good webmail alternative to gmail? HN Startup anyone?

GMX[1] ain't that bad, if you like your webmail to look like a fake desktop client (cf. Yahoo Mail). Also has file storage etc. NB: I'm talking about gmx.com, if you live in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, you have to live with the inferior original service. Unless you register over a proxy, that is (access is possible, just registering is turned off).

I've become really fond of GMail's navigation, though. Beats desktop clients, although sup[1] wasn't that bad and you could probably do a lot with Emacs MUAs…

[1]: http://www.gmx.com

[2]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1593343

on the front page of Ask HN

I hear rave reviews about the recently-revamped Hotmail, but haven't quite overcome my prejudice against the brand to try it.

Any details on what you've heard good about it? It was so slow and poorly laid-out for me that I finally decided to trust Microsoft with my gmail address enough to let them forward my hotmail there.

Hotmail user since the pre-gmail days here. It's actually pretty good. It's a little to "busy" for my tastes, but it runs well on every browser I tested it on. Hotmail also re-directs to a very good mobile site on the iPhone.

Full disclosure - I am paying like $20 per year or something for the "enhanced" service, but I don't even know what that includes any more. It used to be Outlook connectivity and more storage. I haven't used Outlook (at home) in years, and I don't think my account goes over the size of the free storage.

I like fastmail.fm. Recently acquired by Opera, but no significant changes so far.

well there is zoho

nice

Zoho Writer's docs are available offline as well as online which Google Docs aren't at the current time. And Zoho Creator is awesomely handy.

In addition, Zoho mail is ad-free and has offline capability using, oops, Gears.

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