The Tomigaia Blog

New Ideas: Oddpost

While on the road this month, I got a chance to use a exciting new
service called Oddpost. An long-time friend of mine, Iain Lamb, is
one of the co-founders of Oddpost, and he gave me a free account
while it was in the beta testing stage. It was opened to the
general public last month, and has got a strong response from
paying users. For $30 a year, a customer has a ad-free web-email
service that unlike Hotmail and its ilk, ACTUALLY WORKS LIKE A
REAL E-MAIL PROGRAM! (Sorry about the caps. I am a believer now!)
Iain and his team have built an Outlook work-alike out of DHTML,
meaning that the mail program is built into the web page. Once you
download the 50k page, you begin to see the true power of a
lightweight portable mail client. Drag-and-Drop, column sorting,
subject filtering, separate message composition windows, it is all
there! It works best with IE 5.5 and 6.0, and it supports remote
POP mailboxes, so you can use it with your current mail
accounts. For a list of all the features, check out the web site,
and if you are tired of slow, user-unfriendly web e-mail, give the
free 30 day trial a shot. You won't be disappointed. (Note to
Japanese language users: there are some minor problems with the
Japanese mail support right now, but they will all be fixed very
soon.) (It was fixed in late 2002 )