Claire's Random Thoughts

I’ve been using gmail for the past couple years and have always regarded it as the best email service that I have used. However, I have found another one worth consideration. crawler.com seems to offer more features than gmail does, although they might not be very well-known right now. I’m guessing that most people who are reading this have never heard of crawler, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with their service.To make sure that they weren’t a tiny company that would disappear overnight without notice, I checked their Alexa ranking which was 44,333 indicating that they were decently sized.

Here are some of their features:
Large 5 GB storage with 20 mb attachments
Customize “From” addresses (send mail that looks like it’s coming from another one of your accounts or use a forwarding alias)
POP3 access
External POP3 accounts (to poll all your other mail)
Autoresponder
Sort rules (called filters in many other email services)
Option to create a public or private photo album

Crawler mail uses a nice interface with no ads, whatsoever. The layout can be either one similar to Yahoo mail beta (shown in the picture above) or one of their other 3 choices. There are also simplified, text-only, or access black and white skins for faster loading, but the default is probably the best. You may also change the color scheme if you wish. The list of emails is displayed on top while the actual message is displayed below it in the default view.

There is also a storage panel that you could use to backup or store your files. If you use the web uploader, then the file size limit is 20 mb, but if you download the toolbar which can be found on the site or here, then you can the virtual storage folder to upload files up to 50 mb


The crawler folder looks like any other folder in My Documents. If you open it, then you will be able to upload files that will also appear in your storage panel next time you access your mail with a browser. You can drag and drop files or folders as well as create folders, similar to a flash drive. This feature is very convenient, because I am able to upload folders with lots of files by simply dragging and dropping or copying and pasting. This is definitely easier than selecting every single file in a browser uploader.

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