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Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM

Wow! Hellacious Riders offer 100GB of mailbox storage with a reasonable :-) 500MB attachment limit. Not only that; be the first one to fill it up with mail and you get 1TB of space on a dedicated server….

The cost? It's free!

You have to suffer through the usual adds on the web site and the monthly "newsletter" though. Hotmail starts charging for downloading mails to Outlook Express but Hellacious Riders gives free POP3 access. Cool Or What? Not that I plan to use POP3. The hard disk on my laptop is too small and the whole point with an online mailbox is that I can access my mail from any place with any client.

From tom's hardware guide interview with Hellacious Riders:

So we decided to offer a 3 GByte email account to users. But it is easy for others to increase that to 5 GByte. We wanted to do something 'hellacious' and came up with the idea to offer 100 GByte and allow users to send attachments in sizes up to 500 MByte."
…
For the coming week he plans to launch a fee based email service with capacities ranging from one Gigabyte to one TByte. An ad-free 100 GByte email account will be priced at $150 per year.

Screenshots and review of the beast coming as soon as my mailbox is active (it takes up to 72 hours to activate it after registration).

Via tom's hardware guide


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# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

11/12/2004 12:50 AM by pablo

Never Send My PAssword !
ITs a Fake !!!


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

11/12/2004 11:05 AM by egilh

Sorry if it didn't work for you. All I can say is that it worked for me.

I filled in the form online to generate the hellacious riders account. I followed the instructions and sent a mail requesting the password. Nothing happened for a couple of weeks until I go the following mail from Hellacious Riders:
<<
Dear members,

We are working as fast as we can to set up your accounts. We have had
millions of requests and we are sorry for any delays.

We should be putting up our new automated email join page next week, which
will set up your account right away.

If you have not received your email account yet, would you please send
your username to ...
>>

I resent my mail and got my mailbox in a couple of hours.

Screenshots of my, then empty, mailbox at: http://www.coolorwhat.net/blog/archive/2004/10/07/227.aspx

Please leave your e-mail address in the feedback form if you want me to send you a verification mail.



# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

12/28/2004 8:16 PM by nelson

cant receive mail from hottmail, yahoo or gmail,


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

12/29/2004 7:10 AM by egilh

I have not tried with yahoo or gmail, but I sent a mail to myself on hriders.com yesterday evening from hotmail without problems.




# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

1/7/2005 8:13 PM by nelson

how good could something that you can't used be ?


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

1/7/2005 10:39 PM by egilh

You have a -very- good point if it does not work.

I did my best to verify that it does work by sending mails to and from my work and private e-mail before posting. Both worked fine so I thought it worked fine. After your initial comment, I tried sending mail from hotmail to hriders.com and it worked without problems.

In the meanwhile I have also got a gmail account. After receiving your second comment this evening, I just sent a lot of email to myself with the following results:

hriders => hotmail OK (ended up in 'junk e-mail' folder)
hriders => gmail (still waiting)

gmail => hotmail ERROR (got PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 10): 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for ...@hotmail.com). Resent the mail and got the mail in the 'junk e-mail' folder
gmail => hriders OK

hotmail => gmail OK
hotmail => hriders OK

I did not test a yahoo account as I do not have one.

I'll continue "talking" to myself via e-mail the next few days and see what happens :-)


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

1/17/2005 8:40 PM by nelson

How do i cancel my email at Hellacious ? i could never loging to my inbox, so why bother


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

1/18/2005 9:54 PM by egilh

Did they create the mailbox? If you have never logged in I guess they never created it.

I had a look on hriders and I didn't find a way to delete my mailbox. Gmail has a "delete" option but Hotmail doesn't seem to have an explicit delete option either.

I guess you already have a gmail account. Otherwise you can get one here [http://www.coolorwhat.net/blog/archive/2005/01/13/465.aspx]


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

1/20/2005 5:51 PM by nelson

I did logged in a couple of time but now all get is this messeges:
The server process has been interrupted due to an internal error. Please wait a moment, then refresh the page.

i been dong that for the las two weeks

i do have Gmail, with some invitations, if need any let me know

nelson nunez


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

5/14/2006 10:31 PM by nihar

how can i get an account at this site
Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

i too need a 100GB mailbox
plz reply at
nihar3@gmail.com as early as possible


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

5/16/2006 1:03 PM by Cool Or What

It looks like the service is not available anymore :-(


# re: Hellacious mailbox: 100GB!

6/15/2006 9:01 AM by Abhijeet Majumdar

How can I get a free 1000 GB mailbox with 500 MB attachment. If u can provide then pls contact me at my following email id's:-

abhijeet.majumdar@inbox.com (PRIMARY EMAIL ID),
clubabhijeet@gmail.com,
clubabhijeet@yahoo.co.in


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