Free e-mail accounts @ yellowdogs.com

WARNING: The free yellowdogs.com e-mail service is provided by a third party system provided by everyone.net. The history behind the everyone.net powered yellowdogs.com e-mail service is outlined below and I repeat that I have no control over this situation. All other features on this site (e-cards, etc.) are operated directly on my site and my paid web host. The everyone.net site has had problems in the past with adware installation but I don't have any recent reports of problems.

When you access your free e-mail account be sure to set your browser settings so that it cannot install any software from a web site without your permission. In addition, make sure you regularly scan your system with an adware/spyware detection program.


If you need help or more information about this situation contact me.

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Yellowdogs.com still offers web-based free-email accounts in partnership with everyone.net, but due to the number of complaints in over the past few years this is the information you need to know before signing up. We have offered the Yellowdogs.com service for several years, and the number of registrations continues to increase. As the yellowdogs.com domain owner I contracted with everyone.net in the late 90's to provide the e-mail service for the domain which allowed users to sign up for their own mail account. At that time the service and support were very good.

Unfortunately with the hard times in the dot com sector they (everyone.net) have made major changes to their service. They now aggresively push for users to sign up for their plus service at $20 per year, and to encourage this switch they place ads all over the websites and have drastically downgraded the user friendliness of the free mail system. They also severely restrict customer support to free accounts. They did recently (spring 2008) add a contact for the domain owner (me) to contact them, but I have not used it yet so I don't know how responsive they are to inquiries. If I were to cancel the everyone.net service hundreds of existing accounts would be deleted, and I will not do this to my fellow yellowdogs.

Knowing this situation you are still welcome to sign up for a free account if you wish, and a few yellowdogs.com users have purchased the ad-free enhanced service (instructions are listed as you sign up for an address). I use some of the free accounts for my own use and thus know firsthand of the problems.