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Idea #13886: Ubuntu free webmail

Written by nitrofurano the 30 Sep 08 at 11:06. Related project: launchpad.net. Status: New
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As everybody used to know, @mac.com and @hotmail.com are usually popular webmail accounts strongly related with some operating systems, which used to help on their popularity, specially from their users.

The most close of this we can get is opening a linuxmail.org webmail account, but i think would be interesting Canonical providing free webmail account, where we can, for example, use there our launchpad.net login+pwd, like we used with shipit.

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Written by nitrofurano the 30 Sep 08 at 11:06.
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ampers wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 12:38
More like google mail and yahoo mail in that it would bring Ubuntu to the notice of more people.

As an idea it is great, however, it would have to be better than Yahoo mail and Google mail or we would be shooting ourselves in the feet.

I really don't think Ubuntu has the resources to do this, and anything less than competing with the giants might be very unproductive.

ikonia wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 14:20
why should canonical provide an email service ??

it provies and maintains ubuntu, it provides a mail forwarder to your chosen mail account, which your welcome to configure to use as your main email address, so you don't need webmail to use your $user@ubuntu.com address, just set your outgoing mail settings.

I send mail from my ubuntu mail address on a regular basis.

I don't see why this is the responsability of ubuntu or why webmail is a limiting factor in using the ubuntu.com mail addresses.

HighInBC wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 17:12
Ubuntu is an operating system, not a hosting service. There are already plenty of free mail services out there and with IMAP and POP3 they are compatible with Ubuntu already.

I would rather see Canonical's resources spent on development than providing web mail.

Aphoxema wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 19:01
Ow, I hate to agree with taking ideas from Microsoft and Apple, but this does seem to have some merit. Maybe if only Conanical allowed someone else to use the trademark to make a kinder, gentler webmail provider that didn't use your correspondence for marketing statistics or limit your use to certain applications and restrictive protocols.

BUT... it doesn't have to be free, Conanical could stand to make a few bucks out of reliable email provision, I'd pay for it!

yours_truly_michael wrote on the 30 Sep 08 at 19:25
It wont be easy, it's got to be reliable. And it would help to spread the name of Ubuntu.

mroberts000 wrote on the 2 Jul 11 at 03:32
I like this idea.What would be really cool is to have the web mail come into ubuntu one's control panel or if your away from your pc to be able to check it from the ubuntu one
web site.

DoubleM wrote on the 5 Jul 11 at 19:08
Canonical could use an open source program like Roundcube (just an example). They would just need to host it and include it nicely into Ubuntu One. It should simply use the storage of the whole Ubuntu One account! That would be awesome!


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