It’s known that most free email services exist on profits from advertising that is shown to users in the email account web interface. That’s why the Internet web giants of web industry are not in a hurry to give a free access to mailboxes through the POP3 and SMTP protocols. No doubt they wouldn’t want the effectiveness of their advertising to be reduced greatly.Such giants as Yahoo.com, MSN.com, AOL.com have a lot of users, who attached to the other companies services. They do not hurry to introduce such access because users have no another choice, they just get into to use the web-interface.

Of course, there are ways to avoid these limits. For example, there are programs of third-party writers for Yahoo.com who convert the web-traffic into POP3. However the possibility of mailboxes passwords theft by means of such software that decreases the will to use them still exists. For Hotmail.com from MSN.com there is possibility to use the special protocol which is integrated in the Outlook Express and does not accessible for the others programmers of the mail programs that narrow down the users freedom when choosing the post program. AOL.com provides access via POP3 and SMTP, but only to the clients that are connected to this ISP, this is also bounds the e-mail usage area as AOL.com provides its ISP services only in certain areas.
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