GMX is "Global Mail Exchange", found at www.gmx.com. This is a free e-mail service chock full of features and goodies that, said honestly, surprised me at how good it is.
A few of the features:
- Ability to choose an address ending in gmx.com, gmx.us or gmx.co.uk.
- Can import mail over from several popular e-mail services including Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail and a ton of others.
- You can add up to 10 additional GMX mail accounts right from within your primary account, all with separate e-mail signatures.
- Has autoresponder and forwarder capability.
- Has the ability to delete mail on a schedule. You can create a custom folder and instruct GMX to "Delete mails after [this] many days". Very, very trick.
- Full right-clickability inside the interface.
- 5GB storage
When I say I was surprised at how good this mail is, I meant it. Absolutely none of the other webmail providers have everything GMX has.
Check this out:
Above: When I right-click an e-mail, look at how many commands are assigned to literal keyboard shortcuts (that work). In addition, look at all the options I have. I can blacklist/whitelist/filter/spam/move all from just this menu.
You’re probably saying to yourself "Wow, looks just like an e-mail client". You’re right, it does – and GMX does it right.
Above: In the options panel you get way more control compared to the other guys…
GMX is really fast and has tons of good names still available, but what surprises me more than anything else is how GMX was literally able to produce a truly kick-ass webmail that obliterates everyone else in the functionality department.
This is the first webmail I’ve seen besides Yahoo! Mail that truly feels like a local e-mail client – with the speed of one.
In addition to that, it’s stupidly easy to use.
You seriously need to check out GMX. Even if you don’t want another e-mail account, get one anyway and try it.
I signed up two of them. 
Thanks for the tip, Drew!
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Thanks for the link, Rich. Looks interesting.
Thanks, Rich. Nice.
Incidentally, while Firefox and Safari have no trouble opening my account, Chrome is lost!
Your welcome Rich!
As I said in my email to you, I knew this one had ‘Rich’ written all over it. It’s webmail and a client all in one – truly kick ass.
I honestly don’t think many know about this great site and product yet, so I have to agree in getting in quick and grab a name you like. There are plenty to choose from.
Due to the over abundance in spam I seem to be getting in Hotmail, I’m seriously considering ditching it and using GMX as my primary email account.
Following your announcement I signed up to GMX a few hours ago hoping to aggregate my various email accounts (yahoo, hotmail, gmail) into 1 with the flexibility of still managing them separately. Well, so far it’s a bit of a disappointment. To start with, it’s excruciatingly slow. The initial download of emails from my other accounts isn’t complete after several hours, the system isn’t recognizing my various email addresses to choose from when sending a message, there is no spellchecker available, and -most importantly- there is no security/privacy option (a password?) to prevent access to the various email providers, so that if gmx is left open and unattended, anyone could access all the email accounts… not an option!
Vic,
With regards the initial transfer of email accounts, take into account that it has to basically download the emails from the account via secure authentication, which from my understanding would make it somewhat slower. Also, you are talking a number of email accounts. Depending on the size of the accounts and how many emails you have, it’s not something that will be done in an extremely fast period of time. And you also need to take into account your own ISP bandwidth/speed will play a part in the speed of transfer.
With regards security/privacy, if you are concerned with security so much, why would you leave it unattended? Just log out before leaving the computer.
I have nothing but good things to say about my experiences with GMX. I switched from free yahoo because of all the ugly spam and crippled features. All my attachment send and receives have been fast and reliable, I just love this service. Recommend it to all my friends.
Peace