Bluebottle.com will stop free email service from June 20, 2008.

[victor_rambo]

Well, bad news for all Bluebottle.com freemail users. This company will stop its freemail service from June 20, 2008. Existing free users need to upgrade to Access(Rs: 450/yr) or Premium (Rs: 1000/yr) to continue using the service!

This email is to inform you that Bluebottle Solutions Pty Ltd has re-acquired
the Bluebottle email service from Trusted Delivery Pty Ltd.

We have conducted a detailed review of the business, including all of the
available options, and have concluded that in order to for us to be able to
continue providing the Bluebottle service to our Access and Premium customers
we will need to discontinue our Freemail service on June 20, 2008. Our
decision was not an easy one but was necessary to reduce the significant
resources required to manage the free service. This change will enable us to
provide a superior email service to our paid customers.

If you would like to keep your Bluebottle email address, you can simply
upgrade to either an Access (US$9.95/year) or Premium (US24.95/year) account
through your webmail environment anytime before June 20, 2008. If you choose
not to upgrade you will need to download your wanted email from your account
before the Freemail service closes on June 20, 2008. Customers with an
existing Access or Premium account do not need to make any changes.

We would like to thank you for your loyal support of Bluebottle and we do
apologise for any inconvenience the closure of the Freemail service may cause
you.

Kind regards,

Robert Pickup
Bluebottle Solutions Pty Ltd

At this moment, I wish anything from this company gives some more grace time to users to shift their mailboxes!.....Just 8 days? Seems like a tactic to compel users to upgrade!

Soutce: Got a email from them. All BlueBottle users can check their inbox!

[tgpraveen]

gmail FTW!

[mastermunj]

what was so special in bluemail service to use??

gmail rocks all the way more than anything...

[Pathik]

I dont use bluebottle now. Gmail's spam filter works awesomely.

[hullap]

google apps here

[fun2sh]

why the hell wil any1 need a paid email account wen we hav so many free email available

[The_Devil_Himself]

^^and you will never know why.

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by fun2sh

why the hell wil any1 need a paid email account wen we hav so many free email available

because when you send an 'important' email message, it looks bad to have a Shaadi.com banner below it.

a free email box is ok for forum sigups, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

[New]

^Absolutely right..We see adds everywhere now a days

[Cyrus_the_virus]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

because when you send an 'important' email message, it looks bad to have a Shaadi.com banner below it.

Maybe you've never used an email client to send a mail using a free email service

[praka123]

hmm..very bad news...I got a bluebottle mail
anyways..

[The Conqueror]

Google Apps FTW

[victor_rambo]

I have written a tool that will help you export your contact list as CSV. More info at http://www.w3hobbyist.com/bluebottle

[ThinkFree]

Lucky that I didn't have an account there

[praka123]

well,my a.c with bbottle was(?) not so active!anyways I replied to their notice!

[apoorva84]

had never heard of this thing before...me sticking to gmail...

[narangz]

Originally Posted by praka123

well,my a.c with bbottle was(?) not so active!anyways I replied to their notice!

I wonder what

@Rohan- Gmail doesn't display ads on the bottom of the mail. Gmail FTW

[praka123]

^rubbish

[narangz]

^^ I thought so

[victor_rambo]

good choice! Even I wish I could use Google apps but it costs Rs 2500/year where as I can get my bluebottle account saved(withall emails) for Rs 450!

[MetalheadGautham]

What the bloody hell IS this blue bottle thing ? I never heard of it.

[NucleusKore]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

good choice! Even I wish I could use Google apps but it costs Rs 2500/year where as I can get my bluebottle account saved(withall emails) for Rs 450!

I thought google apps was free?!

[goobimama]

450 bucks a year is hardly anything for a good mail service (if it is, I wouldn't know) without ads and all that. I'm gonna pay $100 a year for MobileMe. Now that's something!

[iinfi]

google apps is free... i m using it with my domain for which i pay approx 500 INR.
Rs. 1500/year??? wat r u talking abt??
i use the std edition
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en...tions_spe.html

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by goobimama

450 bucks a year is hardly anything for a good mail service (if it is, I wouldn't know) without ads and all that. I'm gonna pay $100 a year for MobileMe. Now that's something!

You see, 450 bucks is not the problem for me, problem is how do I transfer the money. Moreover, I also have 3 domains, so I can always get a good email address like rohanshenoy@myowndomain.com which I have already created now!

Also whether you pay or use free service, they put a bluebottle advertisement at the footer of every email. The only difference is that if you use free mail, you will get a text-link in the footer, and if you use paid one, you will get a BIG "Powered by Bluebottle" logo with a back link. I don't want that back link on the paid account.

And as regards their zero-spam claim, it is rubbish. All they do is if the sender is not on your contact list, they simply put all the mail in the 'Pending' folder, irrespective of whether they are actually spam or not. Now tell me which email service provider will not be able to make such a claim if this is how their system works. Moreover, one the senders email is on your contact list, all future emails coming through that email address are directly transferred to your inbox without verifying if the mail was really from the sender or somebody spoofed it. I sent an email from my localhost using a email address on my contact list and it made to the inbox.

Also they gave very short notice for free users to vacate the mail boxes and they do not even have a facility to export contact list.

Also, the Bluebottle service is incurring heavy losses.

Now tell me, why would I pay for a under-featured service when I am not sure if they will be able to run the service smoothly in future considering that I can myself host my email account? The 'only' reason I was using bluebottle's email was because the username 'rohanshenoy' was available. But this 'bluebottle' sounded some kind of weird when I used to tell my email address to others. Blue bottle gives some other kind of impression, not a neat one to many

Of course I am thankful to Bluebottle for what they have provided, but this was a very good time to exit the free mail and use my own domain. Someone said "All that happens is for good"-true!

[aminsagar123]

same...

Originally Posted by apoorva84

had never heard of this thing before...me sticking to gmail...