AKO Email

AKO Email provides drag and drop folders to hold and organize search (you can use a number of operators to specify senders or dates, for example) to find mail. All folders let you focus on mail from people you've befriended via AKO profile connections easily — and their emails appear on the "Welcome" page, too.

AKO Email Plus comes with a few goodies such as POP access and larger messages and IMAP access is in iPhone Mail. Instead of reaching out to email programs, AKO Email integrates instant messaging (AKO and Windows Live Messenger) and SMS messages.

• AKO Email offers free email accounts with unlimited online storage at the akoemail.com domain.
• In addition to email, you can send SMS messages and exchange instant messages with AKO and Windows Live contacts.
• AKO Email automatically collects junk emails in a "Spam" folder, and you can report unwanted emails the filter missed.
• Up to 15 filters automatically file incoming mail. You can also block email addresses and instant messaging contacts.
• AKO Email allows you to collect mail from additional POP accounts, and you can send from their addresses, too.
• Acting as a kind of social network, AKO Email lets you connect to other users, whose mail then gets extra treatment.
• Virus scanning and AKO Email's not downloading remote images or other content in emails protects you from much online harm.

With AKO Email, space is not a problem: you can accumulate as much email as "unlimited" storage will hold.
Of course, you'll want to manage all of your mail.

AKO Email comes with filters that automatically file incoming mail, though — and you cannot freely apply multiple labels to messages. You have to put emails into multiple folders for that kind of organization.

AKO Email includes excellent spam control, it scans for viruses and will protect you from web-bugs in unknown senders' messages.

In day-to-day use, it is the details that make you love or loathe an email service, of course. AKO Email not only brings a sleek interface and tabs and drag-and-drop oomph but also keyboard shortcuts around every (round) corner and well-thought-out solutions to many a practical program (such as addressing messages).