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Lycos Mail Beta Offers 3GB of Storage

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

August 2, 2006, 12:09 PM

Lycos said Wednesday it had released a beta of the latest version of its Web-based mail service, offering users 3GB of storage and the capability to send unlimited attachments of any size. The company said Lycos Mail is intended for those who need to share large file attachments. In comparison, most other services only permit files of up to 10MB to be attached to e-mails.

Lycos said the remaining feature set of the service was essentially the same as the previous version. The webmail ofering is the second service to be imported from parent company Daum Communications of Korea. In October, the service launched Lycos Planet, a version of Daum Planet, which is an interactive networking site.

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By sfaihas

edited Jan 30, 2007 - 2:04 AM

i am not able to instal the activex for attaching files in lycosmail. pls help

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By jagadish

edited Nov 12, 2006 - 2:57 AM

I need 3gb storage in my gmail id,Can you please help me.

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By parthasarathy_ps2001

edited Sep 11, 2006 - 7:31 AM

I need 3gb storage in my computer can you help me.

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By sanatkumar

edited Aug 10, 2006 - 3:54 PM

I need 3gb storage in my computer can you help me.

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By lazer1978

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 2:51 PM

I'll stick with using Inbox.com
I'm not concerned with how big a file can be to send because like you guys said, it would take way to much time and there are better ways to send the file.

I use inbox.com because they give you more space than yahoo, windows live, and gmail. Inbox.com gives you 5 gigs of space and I think the loading is quick and I love everything you can do on it such as the file storage, photos, calendar and all of that stuff.

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By wincement

edited Aug 3, 2006 - 5:30 PM

The space isn't the issue for me. I LOVE Gmail's speed, search, conversations, and labels. I don't really have a use for the storage folders, although that does look pretty nice.

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By dougthor42

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 1:34 PM

Unlimited attachment size? whoop-de-do... 1) the other user needs to be using this Lycos mail 2) it would take WAY too long to upload anything large enough to make use of this newfound lack of a limit 3) there are much more efficient ways of sending large files... set up a VPN if you really need to, use P2P, heck, even IM clients would work better. At least then you'd still have use of your browser...

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By sanawar

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 12:11 PM

I am not sure what the point is. You can ONLY send as large an attachment as the recipient email can handle. Most email providers including Gmail, Yahoo and MSN won't allow you to send more than 10 MB attachments. Guess what...they won't let you receive attachments larger than 10 MB too.

I just tried sending email to Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail address with a 15 MB attachment. Not suprisingly all of them failed, as evidenced by the bounced message I got in the Lycos email.

So guys, Lycos email's ability to send large attachments means NOTHING at all because you won't be able to use it!!!

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By ZenWarrior

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 10:57 AM

Read the "fine print." In reality, it's not 30 days, but only 15 days. That's the cut-off for deletion of anything in the spam folder. You had better not take a vacation that last 16 days!

For all practical purposes, that meant Hotmail actually had a login cut-off of only five days (the time spam was held before deletion) -- lest one did not care to lose misdirected or false positive messages.

Either purposefully or via a complete lack of thinking (but almost certainly the former), Microsoft's 5-day spam folder deletion policy meant a user could not leave their Hotmail account unattended over even a one week vacation. 'Tis no wonder Hotmail accounts served only as spam magnets for 95% of its users.

Gmail figured all of that out *really* fast with its 30-day spam deletion policy. That *major* tactical move could not have been made more obviously necessary for a "killer" web-based e-mail service by other free e-mail providers.

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By spiked

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 10:04 PM

You can only send more than 20MB of attachments in a single message if you use IE and install an ActiveX control. With Firefox, you are limited to 20MB.

When using IE and sending more than 20MB, only the first 20MB will actually be attached. The remainder will be sent as a link to download the file(s) from Lycos' web server. This means of course that the recipient must have a web browser, not just a mail client. It also means that anyone with the link (which can easily be snatched from proxy server logs) can get your files. Something to think about.

Also, with all browsers, there is a 10-file limit per message.

If you don't log into your mailbox every 30 days, Lycos will delete the entire contents unless you upgrade to a paid account.

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By nasserd

posted Aug 4, 2006 - 8:16 AM

This means of course that the recipient must have a web browser, not just a mail client.
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Oh, noooooo. A "web browser"? What's that? I've never heard of that; heck, I've never used it before. WTF?!

Seriously, spiked, as insightful as most of your comment was, that's just plain retarded. When you download Mozilla it gives you the browser AND the email client, oh and the default installs of Windows, Mac, and *nix machines also come with IE/Safari/Firefox. So, if a user doesn't have a browser then they have larger issues to worry about.

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By wincement

edited Aug 3, 2006 - 11:21 AM

I still cringe whenever someone wants to send more than 5MB via e-mail.

I have one question: Why e-mail?

There are so many better options that it's ridiculous to even consider e-mail.

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By PC_Tool

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 3:35 PM

Really?

What other solution out there allows for a 'send once, distribute to everyone' method of file-transfer?

Example:

Create an email containing the latest linux Distro's DVD. Send it to everyone on my distribution list.

I only upload it to the server once and it gets sent to possibly 1000's of people.

Normal P2P involves seeding it for ages in most cases.

This would be a *vast* improvement to that.

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By Paridine

posted Aug 4, 2006 - 11:58 AM

PANDO!

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By wincement

edited Aug 3, 2006 - 4:04 PM

From that stand-point, it sounds pretty good.

You're forgetting, though, that most e-mail servers flat-out reject anything over 20MB, and for good reason - most mailboxes have a storage limit pretty close to 20MB. Another large group won't take anything over 10MB.

In real-world usage (I used to work tech-support), I've seen e-mails over 5MB fail 3 out of 5 times.

I was talking from the reliability stand-point of sending files; not the simplicity. Should have specified.

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By PC_Tool

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 4:44 PM

So in order to join the distro-list, you need a Lycos mailbox. ;)

I was talking from the reliability stand-point of sending files; not the simplicity. Should have specified.

Yes, you should have. You know me better than that. ;)

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By PC_Tool

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 9:43 AM

It also means that anyone with the link (which can easily be snatched from proxy server logs) can get your files. Something to think about.


Expect to see this as the next big P2P hack. Next beta os Vista? Get it from lycos. ;)

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By dkratter

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 12:01 AM

"If you don't log into your mailbox every 30 days, Lycos will delete the entire contents unless you upgrade to a paid account."

Microsoft specifically removed this stupid idea from the new Windows Live Mail because they said it obviously provided absolutely no benefit to users, and there was no point in annoying users for no reason.

Lycos really dropped the ball on their new interface.

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By sflorack

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 2:27 PM

It is basic, but unlike the AJAX mailers I've used, it loads quickly and correctly.

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By wincement

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 11:46 AM

Odd that you say that. While AJAX does have a little bit of overhead on the initial download, the whole point of it is to speed up access to information by only downloading exactly what you request and not wasting bandwidth by downloading the page template every time.

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By dkratter

posted Aug 3, 2006 - 12:03 AM

Both Windows Live Mail and Gmail load up quickly and correctly every time, and they're both built on AJAX, which makes them very nice.

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By dkratter

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 2:08 PM

Very basic, not worth using unless you need to send huge attachments. While everyone else is moving to AJAX to make their service more like a normal GUI application, Lycos seems to be stuck in the '90s.

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By xyzcb1

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 12:57 PM

look pretty nice. use ff, and their platform is plain.

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By SnakerDLK

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 12:42 PM

nice...unlimited attachments ? YAY... Future is here !

¬¬ Not that it was a problem using P2M to upload files larger than 10MB to your Email(by splitting)

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By dmainzman

posted Aug 2, 2006 - 12:26 PM

Sweet. Attachment size limit has been the only thing preventing web mail in general from being used as mass online storage... especially gmail.

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By PC_Tool

edited Aug 3, 2006 - 9:42 AM

Any size...

I wonder how long it will be before they trim that. Otherwise, it *will* be used as the next P2P service. (Send once, distribute to all)

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By drfung

edited Aug 13, 2006 - 9:45 PM

Agreed on pretty much all counts. The new system is buggy to boot. They should have increased the free quota to 500m or so, limited the attachment size accordingly, and ditched the "retention" (deleted after 30 days no-login) requirements.

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