Well, looks like AOL mail is the way to go and I'm sticking with it. Free and unlimited.

You did read the story, right? "Starting in May, Yahoo! Mail will offer all users unlimited storage"

Sounds like an AOL plant. You really read the story?

Ummm...

5GB = unlimited?

I mean, I know hardly anyone will reach it, but there is a limit.

EDIT:
Oh yeah... forgot about the free @aol.com accounts.

this is cos most fools dont use more than 10mb of the email. i will still use gmail because of the 15mb attachments and 2.78GB per account is fine for uploading all my important programs like visual studio, windows xp, nero 7, and some xvid movies. while yahoo is 10mb, was. would be amzming if the drop attachment limit!!!!

Check out Lycos mail. I don't use it myself, but I know that they have no limit on the attachment size.

Upload as big a file as you want.

http://mail.lycos.com

So I'm waiting for someone to invent a system for it like GDrive, and we can all abuse free unlimited upload space!

Damn.. why am I such a pessimist?

what about free pop?

They just officially opened up their API's. Not free pop, but it's pretty close. Just give it a month or two. :)

For a second I thought you ment soda.

Upfront disclaimer — I work for AOL and lead the Mail Product Management & Business teams.

With all the talk about Yahoo and Gmail, I thought I'd jump in and note that AOL has offered unlimited email storage to its users since 2005. AOL is free to everyone via AOL.com.

It's not the storage that makes the talk for the other providers.

I just signed in with my AIM account to see what I'm missing and sent myself a test email from my GMail account. I can't even open the email as it gives me an error, "An error occurred while loading the requested message."

TBH, I find the AOL interface terribly bloated with ads and gradients, it is quite slow, and that is only with one email in the inbox.

Unlimited storage means nothing, you just take from the person who doesn't use a lot and give to the person who does. It is just a fancy selling point that makes it sound like you have and endless supply of storage space.

Only problem that I have with aol's unlimited storage is that it is only for an address that has aol.com in it

my email with the service is vadarkwolf@aim.com so I don't have the unlimited space. Therefore I can't wait until Yahoo goes unlimited!

yes aol mail was really leet for a long time. there was private rooms that had Mass Mailings and Servers that forwarded you movies, apps, games. unfortunately, after the millennia aol came under fire from some reporter and made it into a big media scandal that aol was providing piracy then aol ruined it, god bless the press.

But then I learned about usenet, and so far no one has been able to hurt usenet. My road runner isp now provides 100days binary retention and theres 1000x more on here than ever on aol.

You can sign up for a free aol.com e-mail account on their home page.

I don't want to have to sign up for a new account though. I'm kind of in favor of keeping my vadarkwolf account since I have it on everything I use.

I was under the impression that AOL (even free members) had bottomless email capacity.

Yup. Only if you sign up for an actual AOL account though (not just a webmail account).

But what is their attachment limit?

I'd like to see at least 50 meg so you can send a few archived Digital Photos or something in one shot.

Yahoo! kicks butt. I personally think that Yahoo! is the best brand out there and has always been a really great company.

Yahoo! Mail is still the best free Webmail available in my opinion. Gmail is "OK" but not as good as Yahoo! Mail.

The label feature that GMail has where I can apply more than one label to an email has been very useful for me. Until Yahoo! and the other email providers provide that functionality, it's GMail for me.

I agree, Yahoo's mail is actually pretty good.

Wishlist: It would be nice if there were a way that we could download our mail for archival purposes.
And I wish they would institute the option receipt/view verification.

But Yahoo's customer service/tech support absolutely sucks if you need it.

I agree as well....so far out of everything I have used Yahoo has been the best and most reliable!

Gmail has a lot of nice features but if you look at them, some of them don't work right.

You think Yahoo is horrible to get ahold of someone for help? Try to get ahold of Gmail when you need something done! It's almost impossible!

i dont like yagoo, msn, all those others because of one big reason: they give into big brothers piracy violation demands. as long as google doesnt allow our government to read what we search, and to read our emails even ones that have been deleted i will continue to boycott all of the others!

I've gotta disagree. I hate ads, and Yahoo is full of them. Not to mention their interface is SLOW SLOW SLOW, no matter which connection I use (home, school, apartment, etc). I've never EVER had that problem with gmail.

As for unlimited e-mail, so what? I've used gmail for years now, have literally thousands of saved messages (don't delete them anymore, just archive... so much better), and am still only using 103MB of storage, some 3% of my total. Unlimited? Woopie.

GMail also has a chat interface. I just wish more friends converted b/c it even saves the chats you have with them so you can reference/review later if needed (I needed help with a program and this came in quite handy). GMail hands down.

When they get their calendar program up and running, I'll love them even more.

Would you mind telling us what doesn't work right in Gmail. I'm just curious. I've been using Gmail as my main account for 2 years now. I honestly haven't run into any glitches yet.

They just officially opened up their API's. It should be just a matter of time before you get your wish. That is, if the developers really pick up on this (which they should).

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The only thing so far honestly that I have found messed up is the + address that they have for you to stop spam. And sometimes I think their spam filter is broken but that happens no matter where you go.