Engineering.com Email
ENGINEERING.com has announced a new free service – Engineering Mail – an email service for registered members of the ENGINEERING.com community. With this service, you have the opportunity to get an email address with your preferred name – yourname@engineering.com
According to Engineering.com this new service has already been tested by over 1,000 existing members for several weeks. The company is now making the service available to all engineers, engineering students and other members of the engineering community.
The new service provides two things that the big players such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Hotmail cannot. The ENGINEERING.com domain name identifies the member as belonging to the worldwide engineering community. This is particularly important to students and experienced engineers when looking for a new job, or in other instances when a professional presentation is required. The advantage over the big players is that members can find an email address under their own name. This allows people with popular names, such as Phil Smith, to register an account without using underscores, additional characters, or even numbers.
“The great thing about an ENGINEERING.com email address is that not everybody is going to be rushing out to get one. Not every Phil Smith is going to be looking for an ENGINEERING.com email account, because not every Phil Smith is an engineer,” said John Hayes, President of ENGINEERING.com. “This will make it easier for people to find an email account with their own name.”
Perhaps more noteworthy, their service allows members to present themselves in a more professional manner than other existing “generic” email services. This can be especially important when searching for a job.
Some additional information about the service:
• They are starting with 1GB of storage space
• The file attachment limit is 18 MB per email sent
• They report that the service does not currently work with Microsoft Outlook
• Contacts from Microsoft Outlook can however be exported as a .csv file and then imported into your Engineering.com EMail address book.
• Note that forwarding all emails results in the original email being deleted from your inbox. They report that they are working to correct this problem.
Engineers and engineering students seeking their own ENGINEERING.com email address can visit www.ENGINEERING.com/Mail to register for an account.
