SpyMac - Another 1 Gb Email Provider
Close on the heels of Gmail comes Spymac, the web storage service from Spymac Network. Spymac is the largest Online Macintosh User Group and is developing under the belief that community is the Internet’s most valuable resource.
It features an email account with 1GB of space with POP and IMAP access (so you can use it in Mail.app); 100MB of web space; 250MB of picture storage space; Public and private iCal hosting; A Personal Blog, Forum, and Picture Gallery; Customizable Content. And all this is FREE.
The question that pops up is, “How do they pay for that?†And sure enough, SpyMac has a section outlining that, right when you register. They are able to make the service free through revenue generated from their Auctions, their Shop, their Web Hosting service, and their Ads.
I have been reading articles and reviews on Spymac and they are not very great. Mostly, user complaints are about the slow email processing, chronic misconfiguration of spymac mail servers which end up causing some days’ delay in receiving emails. Spymac is being used mainly as a POP mail account, but I think the picture gallery and blog space might thrive.
Overall, here is cheers to another email service that has opened up the storage space domain and providing the services for free. I think that the only point where they score over gmail specifically is that there is no keyword scanning and hence no advertisements. So the privacy issues are kept at bay and not tampered with.
Lets see how this finally shapes up. For the time being, go get your username before its taken.
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