Facebook Messages - Free Email Service

The Bottom Line
Facebook Messages combines emails with everybody, conversations with Facebook friends and SMS texts in a single, simple place organized by the people with whom you communicate.
Facebook Messages's chasteness works well for a limited amount of personal mail, texts and messages, but to handle all your mail, Facebook Messages could do well with more robust tools for managing emails and contacts.

Pros

Facebook Messages
- The spam filter weeds out spam quite effectively, and you can set up Facebook Messages to accept mail only from people you know
- Facebook Messages search is pleasantly fast and — though simple — useful

Cons

- Facebook Messages lacks POP or IMAP access for use in desktop and mobile email applications
- An email address book and keyboard shortcuts are missing, some actions more roundabout than needed
- Facebook Messages cannot fetch mail from other email accounts, and you cannot send using these addresses


Description

* Facebook Messages combines email, text messages and Facebook's own personal messages as well as chat in one communication package.
* Messages are arranged chronologically as conversations with certain senders or groups.
*Easy archiving helps keep your Facebook Messages inbox clean.
*A spam filter detects and banishes much junk mail automatically to a special folder. What gets through can be reported to improve the filter.
*You can also set up Facebook Messages to accept only messages from people you know in Facebook.
*To get to the most important messages first, you can have mail and messages from certain senders relegated to an "Other" folder.
*Search returns results from messages' full text fast; inbox search results do not include junk and archived mail, which can be searched separately.
*Facebook Messages shows all email and message's content using text only by default. You can expand that to see the full message.
*New mail notifications appear in the Facebook toolbar.
*You can export your Facebook Messages emails, texts and chat transcripts as web pages.