Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail Out-Webmailed by GMX

GMX simply the best ! Once you pop, you can't stop !

I like GMX. I'm not all that enamored of its webmail interface, but love its quick and easy integration with Thunderbird.

I just recently reviewed as many email clients as I could on the web...trying to find a different email client than I presently use - looking for one that is secure and also has "folders". WELL...a couple of weeks ago, I discovered GMX and was immediately impressed - and even more impressed after signing up for an account! I agree with this post by Softpedia, and a couple of items need to be worked out yet, BUT - all in all - I do believe I'm going to truly like it...a lot!!!

One thing I really like is that there are NO "ads" included in your emails like Hotmail and other email clients insert!
ALSO, there is no LSO special flash tracking cookie - like Gmail attaches! Plus - when signing in, my NoScript shows that GMX is the "only one" listed for wanting to place scripts on my computer...which makes me feel more secure.
Because of these 3 issues (plus the use of "folders"), I now feel confident in making GMX my main email client, and I'm really looking forward to using it!
Addendum: After discovering this post by Softpedia, I even feel more confident about GMX.

It's brilliant.
Functioning via POP like a charm.
I also like the storage space function (1 GB). U can just invite/share friends to download files you have uploaded to your storage space. At any time you can wirthdraw the share-permit.
I can't say a negative thing about gmx.

I got GMX and then did not use it because I had other accounts and used Outlook. But I went back to my GMX account because it allows me to collect all my third party accounts (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, HOA email accounts, and now I am able to access them from one place, so I am able to get to my various email accounts much easier. If that were not enough, I love the tabs, I can do different searches without having to lose one, I can open different email folders at once, it's easier to move files. I really like GMX, but especially because now I can access all my other web-based email accounts from one place. I agree with Softpedia that it would be nice to see a progress bar for file uploads, but I feel confident that will be a feature that will come in just a little while. Keep up the great work GMX, I am glad I took another look and did not delete my account.

GMX is simply beautiful! The main PROBLEM with it is that lacks support for Chrmoium or Iron browsers! No, not Chrome, that one is stealing data, but these two also beautiful fast browsers.

But.....so sad for me n another peoples.. we can't sign up a new account on gmx.. don't know why... always failed to register even all data have been input..
anyone may help us??
or maybe coz of much much new member signing at gmx, the server was blocked..???

Try contacting GMX for support. You may also want to temporarily disable your anti-virus or pop-up blocker while you're signing up, but I would contact GMX. It may also depend on your browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome etc).

Their support mail is: forum-service@gmx.com

Here's the problem. Unlike Gmail, it doesn't host domains. It doesn't provide push to iPhones, and other smart phones. It doesn't do over the air syncing of the address book and calendar to smart phones. So it's one dimensional.

I have been using GMX for many months now and have been very pleased until just recently.
My gmx account is not retrieving my email from any server! Yesterday i received over 50 emails in one dump, many of them dated and sent to me over three days ago!

I realize this is a free service and glitches can happen but reliability is necessary even for a free service. I don't know much about Yahoo, but Gmail has been very reliable. Reliable and free.

Free comes with a price though, with GMX reliability, and with Gmail, privacy. Don't forget that Google tracks your every move and scans the body of your email as well!

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A qoute from GMX forum = more then a "beautifull" review: http://forum.gmx.com/forum/posts/list/3950.page

Re:My e-mail accounts have been blocked - this is the second time.


I have had the same problem with being told that my e-mail address is blocked when I log in. I have several e-mail addresses with GMX and all but one is saying "Your account has been blocked" and has a big red exclamation point beside of it. This has happened to me before and in the first instance, I sent an e-mail to: forum-service@gmx.com explaining the problem and I never did get a reply, and the situation was not remedied. This being the case I went ahead and made new e-mail addresses; and to my dismay, the problem has occurred once again! Having my e-mail addresses blocked so many times by gmx, has made me feel as though I can't trust them enough to feel comfortable in using their service or feel as though it is safe to give out my gmx e-mail addresses. After being blocked and, hence, unable to access my messages, obviously, the site is useless to me. This is regrettable, as I was planning on using gmx as my business e-mail provider; however, I now have serious doubts about this being a good idea. I also, originally, planned to tell all of my friends about this great find; but, now after this has happened to me on multiple occasions, it obviously isn't a one time fluke but a serious gliche in the system, and I'm glad, therefore, that I haven't embarrassed myself by advertising it as a great service (which I originally felt that it had the potential for being).
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Why I'm posting this here? 'cos I happend to get the same issue with 2 email from gmx (2 out of 2) and did as she did: email them...
So next time "try the service couple of days before makeing a review" (or the review aint a free one?...
And on the forum....post if you can ('cos there is nowhere a register link).

At the publishing date of the review no such issue was detected. Also, we test all reviewed products before writing a piece on them and do not take sides (it's just common sense at Softpedia).

I am a GMX user as well, with two frequently used accounts and luckily I haven't experienced the issue. I hope this will be fixed as soon as possible because it would be a shame for the service to go down because this problem was not addressed in due time.

GMX is awful!!!!! Not working, no support, treating customers like sh*t!
Example: I haven't been receiving mail for 2 days now (and I sent some from a different account, so it should be there) >800 emails just vanished, the German support form (which is the only means of contact they provide) doesn't work because you can't choose email as a topic and all other stuff just gives you 'wrong topic, choose right one auto-replies', emailing gmx company gives you: we can't answer your email, use the support form or hotline (and answers to this reply won't be read!!!) emails, hotline can only be reached from Germany (well I'm in New Zealand, no chance there).
You can't access the English gmx forum as a logged in member (to be able to post) from the German gmx web interface and no-one cares. The only dimly related information I could find after lots of digging is one old warning (from yesterday) saying some customers may experience delays in downloading their mail. Nothing about today, nothing about total breakdown, nothing about all your mails gone, nothing about you can't send mail, you can't receive mail, no one will listen to you, help you or even give you an email address or phone number that actually works.
I'm fed up and will definitely swap to some other provider. It can't be worse!!!

For the moment, allow me to say this: I would say I HIGHLY recommende GoogleMail or GMail (http://www.googlemail.com or http://www.gmail.com). It has been my primary (or main) email account and address for five years now, and I have never, ever had a problem with it!

I cant actually send an email.. it sits on "sending" for a minute or so then returns me to the compose email page..
sad, its the first email, you would think they would at least the first one be sent to try and impress me...
so yea not impressed and wont be using it anymore.. guess just cancel the account now!

What I am about to say, I say with all due respect to you people at Softpedia …

I can’t, for the life of me, believe that you said that GMX Mail is better than Googlemail or Gmail! You (Softpedia) have been negligent in at least one of the following three ways :

(1) You did not try GMX Mail out – to find all the flaws in it – before writing the above review, or (2) you did not check GMail out extensively enough to find out about all of the features that they have to offer, or (3) you did neither #1 nor #2!

Ionut Ilascu said, “[W]e test all reviewed products before writing a piece on them ….” Technically, that may be true. But I am inclined to doubt whether or not you tested it out *long enough* before you wrote that article. Ilascu also said, “[We] do not take sides (it's just common sense at Softpedia).” THAT statement is obviously NOT true! By saying that GMX is better than Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, as opposed to simply saying “GMX is very good”, you clearly have taken sides!

Several days ago, I sent an e-mail message from my GMX Mail account to a friend, who is also a GMX user. So far, he tells me, he has not received it. How bad can you possibly get, when an e-mail message sent from one user to another user of the exact same e-mail service doesn’t even go through properly!?

The GMX organizer doesn’t work properly for me, either. I scheduled two important appointments using the organizer, and I configured it to send reminders of both of those appointments to my inbox. Guess what? I never received any reminders.

And to think, after reading Softpedia’s review, I was seriously considering making GMX my primary email account, and notifying all of my friends to sent all their future mail for me to my GMX address! I sure am glad that I did not do that.

On the other hand, for the past five years, I have been using Googlemail/GMail for my primary e-mail account, and I have never, ever had a problem with it! GMail has everything that GMX Mail has, and more. INCLUDING a personal organizer that actually works properly!

I know some people have expressed concerns about the privacy issue with GMail, but I am sure that no one reading this posting is plotting any terrorist attacks, or anything like that. So, as far as I am concerned, if you’re not doing anything wrong – nor even planning to do anything wrong – you have nothing to hide!

So, for anyone else who has become disillusioned with GMX, I strongly suggest that you try Googlemail/GMail instead. Go to either http://www.googlemail.com or http://www.gmail.com to check it out! :-)

Thank you for sharing with us your opinion after giving GMX a try. Just as you have the right to doubt our testing, so have we about your affirmation, but this is not the issue here. First of all, before going online with negative statements and opinions on our work here at Softpedia (or any other website, for that matter), please take a look at the date this article was posted: April 22nd, 2009. That is a year ago: plenty of time for changes both for the better and for the worse. This means that GMX's webmail service could have taken a turn for the worse since we reviewed it, and that the article is not exactly news. Also, the comments from other users are indicative of the fact that the service had a great start and potential, but that trouble occurred towards the end of the year. As I mentioned in comment #11, at the publishing date (April 22nd, 2009), no issues were detected.

As for saying that we do not take sides, this remains a common sense matter at Softpedia. At the time we started using GMX, the service offered 50MB for attachments (GMail still offers only 25MB - http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8770 -> updated 2/9/2010), possibility to upload 500MB files to the attached 1GB online storage service. On top of this, GMX still offers one of the easiest to use interfaces and quick access to features. With Mail Collector in GMX, there is no need to alert your friends of changing your webmail service. But hey, if these were not great features back in the day when the review was published, I apologize for our low standards.

Also, everyone is free to use whatever webmail service fits their needs, I just pointed out some features that were not present in the three main providers: Hotmail, Google and Yahoo! Best, Ionut Ilascu.

I'm, loving GMX. But how in the hell are they making money?

GMX is terrible. It is as slow as Xmas when I tried to put in my contacts it let me do 3 then that was all I could get out of it I have been trying to cancel it through their on-line help and it is like coming over on the Mayflower it is so slow. I have been trying for hours and still it just sits there like a frog on a log and does nothing.

One thing you didn't mention is the horrible, horrible customer service. My GMX e-mail account was blocked for no reason (at least, not to my knowledge) a few weeks ago and I've yet to recover it. Their .us page offers no way for customers to contact them other than a forum where you can't register to post (there are no 'Register', 'Log in', 'New post' etc. buttons). There's no contact forms, e-mail addresses listed, nothing. The only way I found out who to write was by checking their .net page, which is in German and a pain in the rear to navigate with automatic translation (I don't speak German).

The address I found, support@gmx.net, didn't work, so I tried support@gmx.us and that one seems to be valid. I wrote them a polite e-mail detailing the issue and asking for help. I re-sent the same e-mail several more times over the course of the past two weeks and still I haven't heard anything from them.

Allow me to re-iterate: GMX has horrible, horrible customer service. Their e-mail is nice, no questions there, but anyone signing up for their e-mail risks getting banned/blocked for no reason, and it just ain't worth the hassle. Google Mail for the win.

I have not been successful forwarding a message with an attachment. I've searched tools and settings with no avail. any suggestions?

J

GMX.COM does not even search for email addresses... when I put an email address in the "search" box, an error comes up. I am defecting to Hotmail!!!! My Gmail box is now 25G and EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY slow... can't work in Gmail anymore. I'd rather pay for good service.