Well after seeing jedipi's post re: 30gigs.com I felt awed about how the name of the game seems to be increasing mailbox storage. I just wish emai providers would improve their interface, and offer better features like improved spam protection or something like customizable filters.

I just came across this service - MailNation.net

What strikes you straight away is the immense space that they're offering - 1 Terabyte. I'm reasonably certain that 98% of users don't have this kind of space on their hard disk drives ! That's huge.

There are additional features that I like about this:

1. It's free and as of now - NO adverts !
2. They're offering IMAP4 or POP3 access and a WAP interface
3. Spam protection and a challenge response system
4. Antivirus protection from Trend Micro
5. A decent user interface for the webmail with the user being able to choose from a number of themes/styles ( I especially like the preview pane, makes it look like an email client a la Outlook Express / Thunderbird )
6. HTML composition of messages allowed.
7. An existing address book can be imported in CSV format (very useful)
8. Has support for S/MIME to allow encrypting and digitally signing email messages ( I just hope they also support PGP/GnuPG in the future)
9. Email search to dig thru the junk you'll no doubt be accumulating....
10. It's allowing users to sign up right now -- No invites needed.
11. A variety of domain names available:

mailnation.net
spymac.net
xtremewebs.net
bgxmail.net
mailhaven.ca
docomo.ca
1tbmail.net

among others.

A support helpline phone number is also provided although the actual test will be how well it performs with the added influx that seems just poised to take advantage of this...

Now, a negative point - SMTP access isn't available. Which means that one needs to use either their ISP's server or some other authenticated server to send their emails from a mail client. Note that, sending emails from the site is absolutely allowed and encouraged

Some of the other features might be useful, but what possible use could a human being have for a terabyte of email storage?

I suspect that it's a gimmick, and therefore don't trust them. They know very well that the overwhelming majority of users will come nowhere near using a terabyte of space, and I'm sure that they just don't have anything near a terabyte of space available for any reasonable number of users. Which is not quite honest.

As I said, this kind of thing makes me suspicious. They'll start lying to us by means of insignificant half-truths, and who knows what they'll do next.

omg, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to fill my mailbox till the end of my life
In fact, I'm not even sure that they really provide you 1 Terabyte. BEcause they know that noone would be able to fill it. Imagine someone gives you a huuuuge cake.. let's say 1 ton. And they say you can eat it all TODAY if you want. I'm sure noone would be able to eat even a half alone. Same for this mail service. I don't see the reason of giving someone more than they need.

what about testing their hardware if i didn't be lazy to do it, i would have tryed to use all the terrabyte there and see what would happen

wtf! whats up with all these people trying to get the most space ever?! its not that important! plus its free there is no invite only which is stupid, they dont have an infinite amount of space, its imposable. that like 3hdds of 300gigs for 1 account!

and thier interface is really boring, although its no adds its still pretty boring and the server is annoyingly slow! my web accelorator is pickup up 13 minutes! what is this???

well they have atelaced 100 gigs because I backed up my HD on my email. I think I'm going to see if I can actually partition the site so I can do more than just backup the files.

plus this service doesnt alow outgoing or incoming mail, with the domain liou.ca....you can send stuff to yourself but you cant send to others and cabt recieve from others

Heh, a terabyte of space .. simply insane. I can't even use up a 40 gig hard drive full of all kinds of content, let alone 20x that in email and such. It'd be interesting for someone to try and see how much they could get packed into it .. I dunno how it's possible to use even close to that much space, though. :S

I have nothing to say here but... GOOD GOD. 1 terabyte of space... computers don't have that much space! Absolutely ridiculous - outrageous - impossible!

That being said, I'm not going to even take the time to sign-up. Like I've said, I have Gmail, and that will do just fine - thanks.

Jeez, and I thought that 30 gig was huge. 1 tb of email space is just unbelievable. I guess everybody is expecting spam to start being like 10 mb's a piece or something. What are they going to do, start embedding .avi's into their spam messages. Lol.