250MB!??!!?! of space on Hotmail?!!??!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:57 am

I have two accounts...one of them has 250MB of storage. I was recently upgraded for whatever reason...too bad I don't use that account except for mail order crap....

check this:

Has anyone else been upgraded?

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:56 am

I still have a paltry 2MB limit... but it's all good coz I'm slowly moving all my emailing over to gmail which is teh roxxorz.

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:28 am

I am still at 89% of my 2mb limit as well...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:33 am

I got an email that said upgrade for free, but I didn't do it. I've never been over 20% at any given time.

Post by **enderzero** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:59 am

I checked my hotmail the other day and it was 98% full of junk mail. (up from like 2 mesages 3 weeks ago). It would have taken me a half hour to delete all of the messages and that interface is soooooooo stupid. Fuck it. I have never used that account for email anyway. As long as I use the passport for messyger I will have the acct. I vow to never check my hotmail again.

The bastards kept me at 2MB anyway. Tell them I hate them!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:12 pm

I told them you hate them. I told them I hate them too, even though I don't have the same yucky inbox problems that you have.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:19 pm

2 MB for me too.

danz · Post by **danz** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:26 pm

me too....2mb...but I like the pop3 access. Don't think gmail supports that (yet...)

ender...hehe, sorry to do this to ya, but I sent you an email to your hotmail acct a few days ago! you got hotmail

danz

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:40 pm

danz: POP goes the Gmail

danz · Post by **danz** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:53 pm

you are slipping Mr*....

http://jaybe.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=450

but I guess they are on the right track...gmail itself makes a subtle mention of pop3 accounts...

Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access?

Answer

Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.

danz

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:40 pm

my bad.

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:14 am

that's why I have 250MB of space and you don't....because you suck...all of you...

however, I will pass on the "Tell them I hate them" sentiments...

I'm in tight with MSN...yo...

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:39 am

Drunken Danz - Hey man, you should resend that message to any of my plentiful other email addresses.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:21 am

Google Brings E-Mail Client Access to Gmail

In what it is billing as "e-mail portability," Google Inc. is opening
access to its Gmail e-mail service from desktop clients and mobile
devices. On Wednesday, the company began providing free POP3 (Post
Office Protocol 3) access on Gmail accounts. The rollout is expected to
reach all users over the next two weeks, said George Harik, director of
Googlettes, the name of the Google group overseeing its startup
services.

"This [access] is an important part of e-mail because of all the things
not enabled by Web-based e-mail," Harik said. POP3 access, for example,
allows users to read Gmail messages while they are offline and on
mobile devices that support the standard, Harik said. POP3 is a
standard protocol for receiving e-mail and communicating between an
e-mail server and client. Most major e-mail clients, such as Microsoft
Outlook, support the standard, as do competing Web-based e-mail
services such as Yahoo Inc.'s mail.

News source: eWeek

snowboard_freak · Post by **snowboard_freak** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 2:54 am

Yeah i got upgraded about 2 months ago for some reason. But i only got the email telling me so a few days back.

I ain't complaing because i was always crazy close to that shitty 2mb limit. The bigger file attachments are good too.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:15 am

I got upgraded to 250 as well, now my hotmail can hold even more spam!

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:13 pm

I got upgraded, but it's too little too late... I'm already well on my way to gmail-land.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:12 pm

Yeah.. F' hotmail. I'm so lovin my gmail, especially since ender turned me on to the gmail notifier plugin for FireFox

danz · Post by **danz** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:43 pm

yah...noticed a 250 upgrade on my hotmail...but I too have been phasing hotmail out in favor of the G! my favorite gmail feature thus far is the mail filter...

Post by **enderzero** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:48 pm

POP3 access for Gmail?

What do you guys think? I plan to keep mine web based. With web software that good I have no reason to further complicate Outlook. I think of Gmail as something different than normal email. It falls somewhere between email and a forum (a forum you can't edit I like to say). Moving this to a POP client seems to completely negate that functionality.

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:05 pm

amen, the gmail "client" (website) is one of the best email interfaces I've seen around. I think it may even beat out Outlook. So... meh! to POP access.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:56 pm

I agree... I just thought it was cool that they offer free pop3 access, where yahoo and others once had this service for free, they now charge.

I love the GMAIL Notifier, just got firefox 1.0 on my work pc. Well not actually "on"

Firefox supports running Firefox from removable media

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_usb

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:23 pm

Anyone else getting lots of spam to their gmail? I have 54 spams.

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:09 pm

I've only gotten about 10 - 20 in the past 3 months. And those were always in Spanish.

Evil Dan · Post by **Evil Dan** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:04 pm

I've been getting 2-3 spam messages a day in my gmail, but gmail does a good job of keeping it out of my inbox. So no complaints yet. G'bye hotmail.

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:09 am

0-5 a day. Filter catches them all. They all have the first part of email address in the subject as well. I'm just glad the gmail firefox plugin doesn't show them.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:52 am

hope the notifier .4 fixed that certificate problem

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:53 am

From slashdot:

Some Ways To Avoid Spam On Gmail

http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/j ... 219_224403

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:05 am

My hotmail account finally upgraded to 250 the other day. I also get no spam (and the account has been up for nearly 5 years now.) I think I'll keep it, since it's such a rare item. I also don't like the sound of G-Spam-Mail.

danz · Post by **danz** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:44 pm

I have had Gmail for almost 6 months now, and have received less than 10 spam emails during that time...that gets a big thumbs up from me!

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250MB!??!!?! of space on Hotmail?!!??!

250MB!??!!?! of space on Hotmail?!!??!

I think you all suck...so does MSN...

Native POP3