Huge mail companies review
It is difficult to imagine, that in our time of high technologies there exist places, where progress didn’t come. Moreover, the more this progress can reduce possible profit, the longer time they are restraining it by all available means.
Most free e-mail services are known to get profit from ads showed to users in mailbox web-interface. So, web industry giants don’t hasten to provide free access to the mailboxes via POP3 and SMTP protocols, as the efficiency of their ad places will considerably decrease which is unwanted situation.Such giants as MSN, Yahoo, AOL operate many users, which are tied to other companies’ services don’t hasten to provide such access as today users won’t disappear and the reason is that they just get into the habit of using web-interface.
Surely there exist some methods to evade these restraints. For example there are some Yahoo.com programs which convert web traffic into POP3. However the possibility of mailboxes passwords theft by means of such software that decreases the will to use them still exists. Hotmail.com has the ability provided by MSN.com to use special protocol integrated into Outlook Express and been unavailable to other e-mail software developers, and that is certainly also constrains the freedom of user when choosing e-mail software. The AOL.com has access by POP3 and SMTP, but it is accessible for the clients for internet access from that provider and this cramp the region of mail using because the internet access from the AOL.com is not everywhere.
However, they lose a lot, trying to follow the outdated marketing policy that is intended for online advertising, and limiting the user’s freedom in his choice. There is another way to monetize visitors, attracting users and keeping them. A company Google.com with its email Gmail.com has become this new model. Initially they provide users access to POP3 and SMTP interfaces not restricting user in methods of work with e-mail. However this service has a great advantage over common mailing applications like Outlook Express - it is a big volume of mailbox disk space allowing user to keep all the e-mails straight at the server and get access to its’ mailbox from any part of the world.Plus, only relevant advertising is shown to a user, no bothering banners! Such format attracts more and more users of e-mail - because the convenience web-interface allows forgetting the problem of the mail programs installation.
At the end the e-mail of the Future is imagined as web-interface without using the mail programs. Yahoo.com, MSN.com and AOL.com most probably will also use this model later as it much profitable than out of date method of mail application utilization.Basically POP3 and SMTP become even obsolete; the Gmail.com provides new e-mails reception notifications via RSS channels.