Went there, signed up, tried to log in. Was met with a terse message telling me that I needed the latest version of IE or FF. I happen to use Opera, and don’t think I will be changing any time soon. This might be nice, but since Opera is the MOST web compliant browser (see Acid2 tests) you would think that it would be well supported.

Hi Oracle.

I’m not too sure about compliant for Opera. I did use Opera for quite a while but then reverted back to Firefox. This was really because it was not compatiable with Wordpress and I needed to use Wordpress for posting on Lockergnome and my other blogs. So I am not too positive with it being the most compliant browser, but I’m not sure if that was a problem on Opera or Wordpress’ part.

I signed up with gmx, but I can’t get Windows Mail in Vista to retrieve my gmx mail. There’s no info on the gmx site for Windows Mail, and NO CONTACT info to email support…what they have in their FAQ’s is all you get. Sucks.

I created an account, and it looks good and promising. However, it can be slow at times and there are some quirks (for e.g. if you upload a file onto it’s file storage section, you cannot attach that file onto an email you are composing - kinda defeating the purpose, somehow). It’s still beta, so I hope they improve it and it might really be something in the future.

I would have to agree with the oracle. It won’t even accept opera even when you have it report itself as IE or FF. I like gmx alot as as far as webmail services go but I refuse to use IE and I hate having to run FF just to log into webmail. If my wife didn’t like FF so much it wouldn’t even be on my box. I use opera for it’s commpliancy standards as well and won’t be using FF anytime soon outside of logging into GMX. Wonder when and if they’ll change that? Alot of non-windows users don’t or can’t use IE or FF. Seems like that would greatly cut down the size their user base. For someone that advertises themselves as a global ebmail service, you’d think they’d do something about that.

I have used Gmx for like 3 months now, and it works great. EXCEPT ITS IN FRIGGIN GERMAN AND BARELY TRANSLATED TO FRACTURED ENGLISH. I love the interface, had to turn off the spam filter because it filtered EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY MESSAGES into the junk box.

I switched from Gmail to GMX mainly for moral and political reason, because I do not like Google policy concerning China, nor they’re attempt to become a global big brother. Clearly, moving to Yahoo, MSN or AOL (a company participated by Google) was not even an option. Among the other, less multinational providers, GMX seemed to be the one offering the best deal. I did not even expect it to be better than Gmail, in fact it is not, but I am ready to compromise about quality because of the political factor. I use it mainly with IMAP from Thunderbird and I msut say it works quite well. However, I’m also upset by the fact that it is not compatible with Opera. Another serious defect is that there is a limit on the number of email addresses to which you can send a single email if you use their SMTP service.

I’m not all that excited about emx yet. At first it looked like a great alternative to hotmail, with more features. Then I tried to import my address book from hotmail. OOPS! The interface doesn’t take in to account transferring from anywhere but outlookexp, outlook2003, or thunderbird. Tried several times by reformatting my addressbook file into other formats (txt, csv) with no luck. Then, amazingly, my addressbook appeared in gmx but when I logged out and back in again I could not get into the gmx addressbook at all! The help button doesn’t. Too bad ’cause I really had high hopes for this. I would appreciate feedback if anyone else has experienced this and found a workaround.

PLEASE PLEASE if you read these comments GMX then make your mail compatable with Opera !!! Thanks