AIM Mail - Free Email Service

AIM is not just instant messaging. AIM is email as well, and it is very good at it. AIM Mail gets you unlimited online storage to keep all your messages and AOL My eAddress throws in a free domain name for good measure. AOL's sophisticated and very efficient spam filtering makes AIM Mail a smooth experience.

Built to look and work like a desktop application, AIM Mail is easy to use and offers a rich though unobtrusive interface (you can drag and drop messages to move them, for example), but it could be a bit snappier in places. Fittingly, AIM Mail includes an AIM client that lets you exchange instant messages right in your browser — and archive them to AIM Mail folders, too.

Searching mail for various criteria works nicely in AIM Mail, and you can flag messages for follow-up. Unfortunately, that's about all AIM Mail has to offer when it comes to helping you cope with the daily avalanche of email. You cannot set up labels or smart folders, and AIM Mail's filtering incoming mail is limited to filing mail.

In a welcome move, AIM Mail compensates for this lack of web-based power with very functional IMAP access, which provides seamless access to your AIM Mail account and all its folders from many email programs. If you prefer POP to download your mail, AIM Mail can do that, too.

Some compensation also comes from the nicely integrated calendar, which lets you create events and to-do items from emails fast. Of course, AIM Mail integrates with AIM instant messaging, too. An AIM panel shows you online contacts, and you can chat right in your browser, from within AIM Mail.

All in all, in spite and partly because of its lack of organizing talent, AIM Mail is a very friendly, clean and usable email service.

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