mail2web.com Offers Free Exchange Account

[Jason Dunn]

http://services.mail2web.com/FreeServices/m2wLive/

"Get your FREE mail2web.com email account today! Based on Microsoft Exchange, the world’s top messaging solution is now available for free from mail2web.com. This may be the last email account you will ever need. This incredible messaging solution travels with you where ever you are, making sure you always have your email, contacts, private calendar, tasks and much more. Use ActiveSync to make sure compatible mobile devices* are kept up to date or use our email aggregator to automatically gather email from other accounts. It’s simple, easy and free. Nothing to install on your PC. Just sign up and in minutes you’ll be enjoying the best messaging solution in the world."



Free Exchange email? Seems too good to be true. I poked around their site and couldn't figure out their business model - it must be some sort of upsell to another service. You can check out their FAQ for more details.

[Jason Dunn]

http://services.mail2web.com/FreeServices/m2wLive/

"Get your FREE mail2web.com email account today! Based on Microsoft Exchange, the world’s top messaging solution is now available for free from mail2web.com. This may be the last email account you will ever need. This incredible messaging solution travels with you where ever you are, making sure you always have your email, contacts, private calendar, tasks and much more. Use ActiveSync to make sure compatible mobile devices* are kept up to date or use our email aggregator to automatically gather email from other accounts. It’s simple, easy and free. Nothing to install on your PC. Just sign up and in minutes you’ll be enjoying the best messaging solution in the world."



Free Exchange email? Seems too good to be true. I poked around their site and couldn't figure out their business model - it must be some sort of upsell to another service. You can check out their FAQ for more details.

[code-frog]

Maybe and maybe not *free*... I'm going to register because I'm curious but I saw (below) this and wondered...

“Anonymous Services” means all services offered by mail2web.com that require no registration, such as the free email retrieval service offered from the mail2web.com homepage (www.mail2web.com).
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“Customized Services” means all non-paid services that require You to register for by providing personal information, subject to this AUP, provided to You by mail2web.com, including, but not limited to; personalized home page, media and blog services, email hosting services, email subscriptions and more. These services are intended for persons eighteen (18) years of age or older;
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“Premium Services” means all paid services (one-time or reoccurring), including but not limited to; mail2web Exchange Email, dial-up and wireless broadband services, subject to this AUP, provided to You by mail2web.com. These services are intended for persons eighteen (18) years of age or older;

Okay, I registered and now I'm being offered:

"Blackberry Enterprise Server" Setup Fee + Monthly Fee

You know I won't spoil there efforts they are offering the real thing and then they have some appealing add-on services at a fair price but looks like it's all going to be ad-based for sure.

[ricoks]

I have this service, and it IS free
There are, however, a few click adds as a banner above the application (doesn't hamper the use at all).
It does allow aggregating multiple emails into one inbox (the reason i got it), however, it does NOT allow for full MAPI. If you want to reply to an email, it will only reply via the @mail2web domain. thus, all emails from it (new, reply, etc) will be with the new mail only, not one of your existing.
so it's 'close', in my book

Hope that helps

Ricoks

[szamot]

the catch is:
Note: You cannot check your email through POP3 or send email through SMTP with your mail2web LIVE account. These features are only supported in the paid plans. You must use Outlook Web Access to check and send email.

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by szamot

the catch is:
Note: You cannot check your email through POP3 or send email through SMTP with your mail2web LIVE account. These features are only supported in the paid plans. You must use Outlook Web Access to check and send email.

What about Server ActiveSync on the device?

Regardless, how can they do this for free? Licenses from MS aren't free. :?:

[code-frog]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

What about Server ActiveSync on the device?

Regardless, how can they do this for free? Licenses from MS aren't free. :?:

You can have unlimited exchange accounts with an Exchange license and they are not reselling the accounts themselves (which I think would get them in trouble) they are selling enhanced services like POP/SMTP which are independent of the actual Exchange and quite honestly as soon as you POP/SMTP it might as well be SendMail on Linux.

They are doing it right and offering a very cool service for people that want Exchange features but don't want to buy it, set it up and admin it.

It's not a bad way to go at all. If they host domains for you I bet the price goes up and I bet that service will be offered soon enough.

- Rex

[freddiemac]

This seems pretty cool, but could someone either give me the following info or point me in the right direction?

I have a samsung i730 on the verizon network. I want to use this as a "backup" for the sync that I do through their wireless sync system.

How do I wirelessly "sync" with the exchange server? I can't really figure out how to set up the connection wirelessly (i.e. through the data side of the phone) in order to do the activesync...

Any good faqs out there? And what is it that I am dialing into over at mail2web?

This all may be dumb...but I am feeling really dumb right now.

[Patrick Y.]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what exactly is Exchange? What are some advantages it has over just syncing, default email client?

[wirelessbeachbum]

Originally Posted by freddiemac

This seems pretty cool, but could someone either give me the following info or point me in the right direction?

I have a samsung i730 on the verizon network. I want to use this as a "backup" for the sync that I do through their wireless sync system.

How do I wirelessly "sync" with the exchange server? I can't really figure out how to set up the connection wirelessly (i.e. through the data side of the phone) in order to do the activesync...

Any good faqs out there? And what is it that I am dialing into over at mail2web?

This all may be dumb...but I am feeling really dumb right now.

You take a pretty good chance of seeing duplicate items if you begin syncing with both wirelesssync and exchange. If you have the i730 you should use Sprite Back-up to back up your device. This will keep your programs and registry safe. And wireless sync will keep your PIM data backed up...as will Sprite.

There should be an upgrade to WM5 coming out sometime for that device, which should give you persistant data storage as well, (that means if your battery dies, you no longer will lose your data.)

[eagle63]

Originally Posted by szamot

the catch is:
Note: You cannot check your email through POP3 or send email through SMTP with your mail2web LIVE account. These features are only supported in the paid plans. You must use Outlook Web Access to check and send email.

Wait a minute... if you're getting an Exchange account then why would you care about POP3, SMTP, or OWA?? What am I missing here?