Mail.com
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| Type of business | Webmail Provider |
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Type of site
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Webmail provider |
| Available in | English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Romanian |
| Headquarters | Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide (except German-speaking countries) |
| Industry | Internet |
| Parent | United Internet |
| Website | www |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | 1995 |
Mail.com is a web portal and web-based email service provider owned by the German internet company United Internet. It offers news articles and videos and a free webmail application with unlimited storage.
Mail.com offers a free, advertising-supported email service with unlimited storage for emails, choice of over 200 domains, online file storage, collecting of emails from other accounts (which is now a paid for service), organizer, Facebook integration, and spam and virus protection.
Mail.com reserves the right to cancel a domain name for even premium (pay) accounts whenever they decide to do so.
Mail.com features unlimited storage and attachments of up to 50 MB. In addition to the address chosen at sign-up, users can create up to nine additional aliases (for a maximum total of ten addresses, one of which the user chooses as default). All ten user email addresses deliver to the default user email in-box, so only one login is required. Users can configure their mail.com account to collect their emails from other accounts and servers. This service is still free.
Users can choose from more than 200 domains for their personal email address including geographical locations, professions, beliefs and interests such as Europe.com, Consultant.com, Accountant.com, Muslim.com, Brew-meister.com and Catlover.com.
Mail.com is one of the last remaining major email providers who do not ask for a personal phone number to set up an inbox, making them one of the last providers to respect user privacy. This also means their users do not have the option to secure their email accounts by using two-factor authentication (2FA), which is a form of multi-factor authentication. This leaves their users accounts open to logins from unauthorized devices in the unlikely event that the user's password has been obtained. All other major email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, and AOL Mail provide the option to switch on 2FA which means any user who logs in to their email account from a new device will require a specific code. This code can be generated by an authenticator application such as Google Authenticator or sent to them via SMS to a previously registered phone number, which adds an extra layer of security. A full list of email providers that have this feature available or not can be found at twofactorauth.org.
Mail.com offers its users unlimited storage for emails as well as 2 GB online file storage.
The organizer lets the user schedule tasks and events. Similar to desktop organizer applications, the user can set reminders, invite guests and import and export data to and from the *.ics and *.csv formats.
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