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The space race in Web-based e-mail continued Thursday as a Houston company unveiled a for-a-fee service that pledges each user three gigabytes of storage.
Zeal Internet Services launched ZealMail, targeting both commercial businesses and non-profit organizations with the new Web-based e-mail service.
Priced at $3 per user per month for corporations (and consumers) and $2 per user per month for non-profits (and those in the military), ZealMail offers 3GB of storage space, triple what Google's not-yet-released free Gmail will provide and 50 percent more than Hotmail and Yahoo Mail's $20 per year premium services currently offer.
ZealMail also sports anti-spam filtering and virus scanning, and is compatible with POP3, IMAP, and SMTP, so users can retrieve messages either from a browser or a desktop client such as Outlook or Outlook Express.
Although ZealMail's storage allowance is significantly greater than bigger-name rivals, users have historically been hesitant to pay for Web-based mail systems. Hotmail's free accounts, for instance, vastly outnumber its for-fee accounts.
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