Comments on: How to break the Google monopoly

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:28:46 +0000

I don’t understand people’s fear towards Google’s privacy protection. So what if a computer is seeing the email, no human is. Google Mail offers constant https encryption when viewing your mail, not sure if GMX offers this. Plus I love that Gmail indexes my entire emails and puts them in conversation view, that way I can add emails to a conversation with keywords to search it later.

Not enough to make me switch sorry

By: Allan Simpson

Allan Simpson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:03:20 +0000

I use GMX as a mail server and can’t fault it.
I like the ability to have multiple email addresses and like the domain.
I don’t really use any of the features that much though, although its nice to see a Webmail that shows willingly the POP server addresses unlike a certain hotmail.

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:02:46 +0000

Thanks all – Graham, GMX does pretty much everything you mention except Exchange push (to my knowledge at least). Admittedly that’s probably a large chunk of what you want!

Very good point about privacy above. This could become a big issue (it’s already quite big) over the next few years. And as it’s a core part of Google’s business plans that could have some interesting effects…

I’m going to give GMX a proper try at some point but I still reckon people want more than just an email service. Fair to say that we’re spoilt for free webmail these days.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:36:19 +0000

I started using GMX a few months ago when I needed a “throwaway” account. I have been using Yahoo Mail for many years and never bothered with GMail for privacy reasons. I find myself increasingly using GMX because of a great set of features: I espcially like the fact that I can access all my accounts via IMAP, this is something I would have to pay for (I think) with Yahoo. It’s very convenient. Especially as the webmail is a little slow but then it does still say Beta at the top so maybe that’ll change. They’re constantly adding features as well. Needless to say I won’t be opening a GMail account in the near future.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:21:39 +0000

Pity I can’t transfer my @gmx.co.uk email from the German version (registered it before gmx.net became German only), though it’s been useful for the last 7 years and offered a bigger attachment than Gmail did until recently but that’s the only reason I’ve kept my account active… would be good to switch back

By: David Wright

David Wright — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:25:24 +0000

GMX is very big over here. I don’t know anyone with a Gmail email address, but a majority have had GMX accounts for a while.

Probably the only service which is more popular is web.de.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:05:52 +0000

Moving away from Gmail? Probably anything that offered free (or even cheap) & reliable Exchange push for mail, calendar and contacts, combined with a decent web interface for when I need it. Oh, and the ability to have sent mail showing up as from me@mydomain.com