Update : During the last few days we have been observing the Rediffmail service is not performing to the satisfaction . There are constant problems due to which some times we face issues like site is not acessible or emails are recieved late. Unless Rediffmail makes it service foolproof people would shot to Gmail as it provides superior service . If u want to retain rediffmail account but move to gmail , one option is to but POP3 access at Rs 300/year from rediff and configure POP3 account on Gmail .
Rediffmail is the free email service provided by India’s leading independent internet portal rediff.com. One of the most popular email services in India having millions of users . Rediffmail is now rebranded as REDIFFMAIL NG -The Next Generation Rediffmail.
Rediffmail Login
www.rediffmail.com is the site which is used to login to the rediffmail portal (in fact it leads to rediff.com site where you need to click on rediffmail NG Logo). Upon clicking on the logo user is prompted to enter his/her user name password .
Upon entering the user name and password , the user has an option to keep himself signed on to rediffmail if he/she is using own PC for accessing . This option of rediffmail.com is usefull , but also is harmful when accessed from a shared PC like a Cyber cafe. Would have preferred if rediffmail had not made this as the default option .
Using Rediffmail Service
Once logged in user can choose between classic version of rediffmail meant for slower internet connections and the Rediffmail NG version meant for faster internet connections. The search functionality of www.rediffmail.com on both rediffmail NG and rediffmail classic leaves a lot to be desired as it takes ages to search the content . This feature is so important if you are offering unlimited storage that i cannot underline it more than anything as i am considering to change my email account from rediffmail to gmail due to this simple reason of not having a search functionality.
Rediffmail NG
We will first tackle the Rediffmail NG version which is meant for faster internet connections. With this rediffmail has tried to bring gmail type of functionalities by making the inbox ajax enabled . This means that one can read the email without having to reload the page.
The rediffmail also provides a service from which one can send free sms to Airtel, Loop Mobile, Vodafone, MTNL or Reliance subscriber from the rediffmail window itself. To do this one has to select the “send sms” link and then enter the number followed by the message.
Rediffmail classic
For slower connections one may use the rediffmail classic access . User can switch between the modes by clicking on the “classic” or ” Take me to new rediffmail” buttons.
The rediffmail classic is the older version of the service and is suited for slower speeds of internet connection. This does not work with ajax technologies hence all new emails will open in another page.
Rediffmail NG -mobile
In keeping up with times rediffmail also has launched a mobile version of the rediffmail.com service. This service allows you to access www.rediffmail.com emails on your mobile . But this service is not free and comes at a monthy charge of Rs 50 (no data access charges) . This service called as rediffmail NG Mobile can be accessed from most mobiles and as rediff has a tieup with service provides all data access charges (GPRS) charges for rediffmail.com will be waived off by the operators.
Click here to see list of compatible handsets <Rediffmail Mobile Handset>
To use this service one has to buy “Rediffmail NG with RediffTouchNet” account online by using your credit card (other payment options too possible).
Compare Rediffmail & Gmail and where do they stand
Rediffmail has 25 million customers in India and now that we are getting gmail as an option hence i am comparing the two to make the decision on whether once should move from Rediffmail to Gmail. If you dont have a rediff account then it is best to use gmail directly and there are no dilemma . So let me compare gmail versus rediff’s email.
Pros of Rediff ‘s Email service
- Its user interface works well with slow connections especially the classic version of rediffmail.
Cons of Rediff ‘s Email service versus gmail
- Gmail’s search is far superior to Rediffmail search and this in fact is the biggest problem facing rediffmail.The search offered by rediff is elimentary at best and does not work if you have large amounts of email stored in the email box. This is unpardonable for a service offering unlimited storage.
- Gmail also scores with features like priority inbox which shows all emails from frequentenly accessed contacts hence making it easy to sort through important emails . But this feature is only for professional users and does not hold much value for a normal Indian user.
- Online chat within the mailbox . All contacts to which you have emailed will showup in the chat window within the email inbox itself for chatting and this is a neat function because most times email is not the best means to discuss topics . Rediff does not offer this feature, though it does offer rediff bol instant messenger service.
- Gmail also organizes all related emails in a sort of transactions hence making it easy to corelate the whole email conversation. This is not there in rediff .
- Last but not the least it also backed by Google technology hence is always on unlike rediff which does go down a few number of times in the year .
- Gmail has advanced features like auto suggest of people to be included in an email
Demographics of Rediff.com’s users
The demographics of rediffmail users can be derived from the rediff.com’s demographics and it is an interesting information as it provides insights on how rediff has managed to survive the scare of scores of Indian portals launched .
Traffic Rank in India and world
As per Alexa rediff.com(hence rediffmail) is ranked as the 9 most popular website from India and around 159 th website in the overall traffic in the world . This makes it an very influential brand in India and rightly so as it has invested in building the portal over so many years.
Countries from where visitors visit the most
Rediff mail is mostly used in India and other markets where we have substantial portion of India diaspora . Thus it is no surprise to find 90% of traffic from India and then around 3.5 % traffic from USA and the rest slit across UK , UAE and other states. Another think to note as per Alexa is despite rediff.com being a large portal most of its traffic i.e around 40% comes from rediff mail this shows how influential the email service is.
Tidbits on Rediff
- Rediff.com has 95 million registered users and around 30% of them are using the email services so this puts the number of active users for the email service to be around 30 million which is a big number considering that india has only 40 million internet connections . As per Alexa more than 90% of the visitors using rediff.com ‘s email service are from India and the remaining are mainly concentrated in US, Uk and other countries.
- Rediff was one of the first indian website and email service to be advertised on TV using the slogan “Lighting Fast“
- Rediffl also was the first email service to offer unlimited storage ahead of others like yahoomail , gmail etc.
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Rediffmail sucks!! I lost so many of my old emails. And hundreds of others are facing the same problem. Read my blog on this here: http://www.vijaypadiyar.in/blogs/2010/06/rediffmail-corrupted-my-emails.html
Thanks for bring this to our notice. Personally i have a rediffmail account and agree that there have been issues with old mails off late . Coupled with this rediffmail also seems to be having issues with search functionality. It was not working for the last 2 weeks due to which important old emails of mine were missing. Rediffmail sucks big time.
REDIFF MAIL INBOX is quite not loading today. Is there a problem ?
REDIFFMAIL INBOX login page is quite slow today. Can you check if this is fine
Gmail is better than rediff. see search capability.
Agreed rediffmail.com’s search functionality is slow and one has to wait for a long time before it pops up results its quite frustatting
Search facility is down.
Updated related posts to 5.
Rediffmail login page will have a surprise on teacher’s day!
i also have the same problem with rediffmail . Its time rediffmail invested in technology to compete with gmail Otherwise people will switch to gmail
Hi , I see that rediffmail is a bit slow today . Unable to access my mail box since 10 mins.
Geeta, this was temporary server problem at rediffmail. Now things are at normal speed.
When I was e-mail login entered, password automatically showing in password.
Last 3 days trying to open my inbox,but could not open.Is thre any new process to go to in box
hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii frids , I really like the cool features of rediffmail NG , but find that it does not work well with slowconnections. Please do something to fix this
I am facing issues with login ever since the service was upgraded to rediffmailNG. Hop the issues are fixed quickly !
It is strange that rediffmailNG on mobile is a paid service. What is rediff trying to do here ?
Rediff’s email seems to have got f***ked after they made the upgrade.
rediffmail NG is not tested properly i guess . I am having trouble loggin in eversince it has been launched. Rediff are u listening ?
rediff is vry gud chat messanger
but i face, this id prob continously smetime
plz refresh aur technical will check as soon a spossible
Rediffmail NG is good , but Rediff has to still cactch up on search functionality . Am unable to search my old emails , what crap. They provide unlimited email functionality , but dont provide search engine for emails , this is not pardonable.
the rediffmail ng is working too slow but not better than the classic rediff
i cant see my oldest mail. please do the needfully ASAP
Thanks for bring this to our notice. Personally i have a rediffmail account and agree that there have been issues with old mails off late . Coupled with this rediffmail also seems to be having issues with search functionality. It was not working for the last 2 weeks due to which important old emails of mine were missing. Rediffmail sucks big time.
Iam unable to open my Inbox. Is it because of this NG?
it very good for communication as we can now send free sms to any mobile !
not able to open my inbox.it is showing-errors on page.pl.help.
today im accece my rediff account slowly>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
I have rediff account, its very slow & i lost so many emails also.its search is not able to return very old emails due to timeout
this a very useful mail
I have rediff account, its very slow
thy are very very very slow
i am unable to access rediffmail inbox from my N 97 for last 3 days. Rediffmail has become problem. Old mails 3-4 yrs old have disappeared. I want to know whether others are also having same problems?
since last 5 days i am unable to login to my rediffmail.com account . Because by clicking rediffmail it fails to connect and flashes that URL is spelt wrong.
You tried to access the
address http://f1mail.rediff.com/pr … which is currently
unavailable. Please make
sure that the Web address
(URL) is correctly spelt and
punctuated, then try
reloading the page. Make sure your Internet
connection is active and
check whether other
applications that rely on
the same connection are
working.
condition of rediffmail.com is critical frm couple of days i m unable to access find soulution as early as possible
RECENTLY I FIND THAT I AM NOT ABLE ACCESS MY OLD EMAIL MORE THAN 90 DAYS OLD. PL HELP ME OUT.
I can not open the radiffmail homepage. Pls help.
rediffmail.com IT IS THE BEST E MAIL SERVICE IN THE WORLD
Why rediffmail is nor working today
I am unable to see my old mails in Rediffmail. These are very important to me. I have tried in different systems, different browsers with differernt versions and different operating systems. But unable to see mails. All the mails shows sent date is sometime in 1970. I think rediff was not there in 1970. I have raised a call, but not resolved. Rather they closed it. I suggest no one should use this.
where is my inbox email, out box, I am not seen why? provide old mails or settings
Rediffmail is bahoot BAKWAS & FAALTU site hai
My Friend is Rediff
Rediffmail is good friendship webside.
M ID rocky_singh2010@rediffmail.com.
Tace Care
HNY 2011
can not open the radiffmail homepage. Pls help.
emil-tunnasethi@rediffmail.com
Hi ,
Rediffmail service from mobile is charged .. that is bad !
slowest of all. gmail is 100 times better than rediffmail.
where is my email inbox,outbox.i am not seen
i want to sign in to rediffmail and gmail togethere is it possible ?
I am really in deep trouble. i ve lost my old data stored in my rediff mail box . it was quite official. also not able to access my other remailing e-mails.
Help me out………..plz
Lokesh Sharma
rediffmail is not accessable.
is there any problem with rediffmail?
rediffmail is a good traveller and a post man=
rediffmail site is not working and i am unable to check my mails facing great dificulty please rectify it
HOTMAIL IS BETTER THAH REDIFF.AN I LOVE IT.
i m fed up with rediffmail.i cnt find my inbox. inspite of submitting right password, it rejects the same.riddhi is right, it is slowest of all and gmail is far better than it,
I tried to open the email by feeding all security questions,passwards, etc, but could not open the my email a/c. of firm. Some one might have hacked this a/c. & changed the security questions, passwards. Therefore I stoped to use such rediffmail since last 3 months.
lost my account
guys i m facing many problem while using refiffmail, plz tell me what to do
rediffmail is no mre safe site to use or visit i m getting many unwanted mails
rediffmail is a good
Ihave a rediffmail customer,my mail is loading failed.I dont open my mail.
Kindly cosider my requet
Regards,
Robin A.R
myself facing problem many times in opening mail pl do something
most popular mail service
why rediff is not opening in home page or inbox what happened before it use to be very fast and after logging in it takes lot of time to open. nanaiah
rediffmail is best for me..
really,
I enjoy it
its very good service ,and very fast thanks rediff
yes sahi he sab kutch
Hi
i will try my rediff A/C in my mobil but i can not axess pls help me.
Thanks Regards
SANTOSH
Hi
thanks team
my email is not sending messages can any body out there to solve this problem.
I dont like its background.
my email web page is not opening.It says there is some security problem. I am totally held up. My entire communication is thru this web page. Please do some thing and reintate the web page with all the messages.
what happened u,rediff?
i am not able to access my a/c as there is always page display with yellow colour ‘untrusted connection’ now what i have to do
I am trying to log in rediffmail since morning,but couldn’t log in..it is too slow…..i have to open my important documents related to work and because of failure of logging it is giving me a trouble…very bad service…Thanks for bring this to our notice. Personally i have a rediffmail account and agree that there have been issues with old mails off late . Coupled with this rediffmail also seems to be having issues with search functionality. It was not working for the last 2 weeks due to which important old emails of mine were missing. Rediffmail sucks big time.Thanks for bring this to our notice. Personally i have a rediffmail account and agree that there have been issues with old mails off late . Coupled with this rediffmail also seems to be having issues with search functionality. It was not working for the last 2 weeks due to which important old emails of mine were missing. Rediffmail sucks big time.
Thanks for wonderfull explanations on redifmail
Why is it that am unable to login to rediffmail today ? Is bugs/issues with the service
Rediffmail is a good , i have been using it since the last 10 years !
Iam a rediffmail customersince long time ,my mail is not open since 5 to 6 months,iam giving alternate email for information: adlaasr@yahoo.com
i am new in rediffmail. so please my friend help me
i brought ng mobile order number by blue dart courier. my cell fone model is lg p520. settings is not accepted my cell fone. i repeately given call to customer care. but they not properly give answer. i have lost rs.620/
Opps… I am fed up with rediffmail. The one is, it is slow and beside this it often doesn’t accept even the correct email ID with correct password. I don’t like it. Heein Chheeeee.
my rediffmail is not opening what i do
my mail is not opening wht shall i do? its vry important and urgency! pls help some one!pls
my one probleme in a login for the rediffmail. the long tine in access the id. ersad for bebo
hi I couldn’t log into my rediff mail account. It’s showing password error. How can I retrieve my accoutn? I s there any servie in rediff.com portal? please let me know
Rediffmail is best than gmail also.my chumbs make zooly account on rediffmail
rediffmail opening very very slowly at snail speed even after complaining 15 times no action was taken.
when it opened once 3 days ago all my Inbox email about 7000 were deleted. This is totally ridiculous when i asked them the reason they said you must have deleted it. which nobody would do.
I want to account for the rediff maile.com
hai. rediffmail i am very happy to part of in your software. but one-thing i would like to say please keep try to watch all the customer request.here anilveena n iter
I Love rediffmail NG
hai i am mohd fareed tis my email id on the rediff
[mhd_frd@rediffmail.com
REDIFF MAIL INBOX is quite not loading today. Is there a problem
sir i am not in a position to retrieve my password.please block my account.
not open rediffmail brsr
want to create an account
this is an easy to make an account
G+ is getting push from Google homepage.
rediffmail is down todays..
Let us wait & see how far this new Rediffmail is useful
S.K.Malaviya
rediffmail login is not open can you check if this is fine
not open mail .page solved my prblm sooooooooon
my rediffmail inbox is quite dont work to one weak plz check it
rediffmail not working for the past 1 week,,pls. check if it is everyboy
Since last Monday(30 th Jan) Rediffmail is not logging in and I have spent lot valuable time trying to log in to my mail..Is something wrong????
no login and
not passaword of mistyg plz help me
ANIL wrote::
Thanks for bring this to our notice. Personally i have a rediffmail account and agree that there have been issues with old mails off late . Coupled with this rediffmail also seems to be having issues with search functionality. It was not working for the last 2 weeks due to which important old emails of mine were missing. Rediffmail sucks big time.
Surprised to see that rediffmail survives to this day!
rediffmail is a very good search engine.
Rediffmaail mor jivan aji disturb korar joinney mue bamaari hoya asong…..
Biswajit rajbongshi
Kokrajhar Dist
Kamatapur state
my email has been used for my employment but due to not opening I have not only lost opertunities but became a looser
Super high spéed and more application by gokul
Rediff Inbox is many problem creates while loading, now these days, dont know the reason but working very worst since last few weeks. i have bad experience with rediff mail.
I can’t reach my inbox because of line is very slow.
good service
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