Junk mails...you are deleted! (hotmail.com)

Member Name: genmil

Product:	hotmail.com
Date:	11/05/09 (63 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Big storage capacity and many useful features

Disadvantages: none

Hotmail is not unfamiliar to many, they are one of the first free email service provider in the world. I started with hotmail many years ago; it was my first taste of email communication. I wasn't disappointed, hotmail is very user friendly and the storage capacity was sufficient. But as more free email provider surfaced, I decide to switch to them thinking maybe I will get a better deal there.

My verdict after trying out many free email service providers is, I am back with hotmail and I have cancelled most of the other free emails. In my experience, hotmail provide a larger storage capacity, up to 5GB (expandable when required) which is essential for emails filled with graphics and pictures. Hotmail is operated by Microsoft and the hotmail team are constantly upgrading and improving the hotmail feature, both on page appearance and useful add on. One useful feature is the ability to link to more than one email account in a single login. I have two hotmail addresses, one for friends and the other for enquiries I made. Though hotmail have an effective anti spam feature, my hotmail for enquiries was set up to handle the junk mails sent by people who bought my email address from these enquiries. I can easily delete them without opening the mail. Another feature (probably not a new) which I have recently discover is the ability to customise my page with theme design provided by hotmail.

The other features built into hotmail are virus scanning, SMTP authentication, phishing heuristic detection, mailing list detection and spell checker.

Hotmail - one of the first for free email and definitely one of the best.

Summary: Constanly improving and upgrading hotmail features