Facebook email

Ra8

What do you think of Facebook email after its announcement 2 months ago, and its activation lately?
Do you think it will be as good as Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo mail?

nuclearcat

https://mail.thefacebook.com/owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https://mail.thefacebook.com/owa/&reason=2

Connected to Microsoft Exchange

Just LOL.

eliefares

I have a Facebook email but I can't judge since very few people (and probably no one on my friend list) has one at this point.

J4D

I think this is some kind of fraud, the site totally does not resemble facebook. and im certainly not going to enter my login details.

ac1d

J4D wroteI think this is some kind of fraud, the site totally does not resemble facebook. and im certainly not going to enter my login details.

www.thefacebook.com was the first domain for facebook
And if you go to thefacebook.com you will get redirected to facebook.com

So no fraud.

MrClass

FRAUD. Facebook doesn't rely on Microsoft products to power up their services.

Ra8

No not this is not the email service I was talking about.
This is it :http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/

nuclearcat

mail.facebook.com will redirect there

bskaram

<Off-topic>Is Facebook texts working for any of you guys? It stopped working for me some months ago...</Off-topic>

This Facebook email is pretty practical, since "Inboxing" is now very popular among users, and with half a billion active users, it is bound to become as popular and maybe as good as Gmail and Hotmail and others...

samer

Heard from a few more people in the know that mail.facebook.com is definitely Facebook’s employee mail access, like I said above. They’ve long used Exchange to handle their mail though it’s not clear if they’ll switch to use whatever this new mail service is yet (Google, for example, uses Gmail, obviously).

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/facebook-mail-outlook/

rolf

It is worth knowing here that Facebook is largely financed by Microsoft.

hmm...

/me tries logging in with mzuckerberg and password 12345

xterm

Yes, Microsoft Exchange is terrible.

Ayman

And if you go to thefacebook.com you will get redirected to facebook.com

So no fraud.

You can make any webpage direct to facebook.com or any other site so it's not really a solid proof.

mail.thefacebook.com seems fraudulent, the https certificate isn't valid too. But as nuclearcat mentioned mail.facebook.com redirects there which I find really weird, anyone has an explanation how something like that can be done without any intervention of facebook? shouldn't mail.facebook.com be a subdomain belonging to the official facebook?

rolf

J4D wroteI think this is some kind of fraud, the site totally does not resemble facebook. and im certainly not going to enter my login details.

MrClass wroteFRAUD. Facebook doesn't rely on Microsoft products to power up their services.

AymanFarhat wrote
And if you go to thefacebook.com you will get redirected to facebook.com

So no fraud.
You can make any webpage direct to facebook.com or any other site so it's not really a solid proof.

mail.thefacebook.com seems fraudulent, the https certificate isn't valid too. But as nuclearcat mentioned mail.facebook.com redirects there which I find really weird, anyone has an explanation how something like that can be done without any intervention of facebook? shouldn't mail.facebook.com be a subdomain belonging to the official facebook?

Besides, the whois for thefacebook.com lists nameservers for that domain as ns2.facebook.com, ns3.facebook.com, etc.

More proof

It's not a fraud, Facebook uses Microsoft Exchange internally, get over it.

Ayman

@rolf, interesting, thank for the info. But now the question is, why would Facebook use MS Exchange?

rolf

Why not?