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What email would you presently suggest for personal use?
Near void pales of intracranial expanse ^ | 05NOV23 | Gnarl of the Maw Faction

Posted on 11/05/2023 7:27:23 AM PST by gnarledmaw

Gmail has gotten to the point that it regularly locks me out of my accounts for a week or more.

Im tired of them using phony security concerns to track my location, accounts, devices, etc.

Looking for free accounts for personal use.

Interested in hearing about your experience using other emails, both the pros and cons.

What are your suggestions?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: email; privacy
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To: gnarledmaw

Protonmail


21 posted on 11/05/2023 7:57:16 AM PST by freebilly
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To: gnarledmaw

I have used GMX for years. Free, Good interface, minimal ads mostly on the home page, full HTML support, some writing tools, some storage. As for privacy, l don’t know.


22 posted on 11/05/2023 7:58:06 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: gnarledmaw

Another vote for protonmail. There are no ads.

In yahoo I have to navigate around recipes and other unwanted advertisements.


23 posted on 11/05/2023 7:58:33 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: George from New England

I second that emotion. Ive never had problems over the decades. Its email.


24 posted on 11/05/2023 7:58:50 AM PST by plain talk
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To: joe fonebone

“I’ve had the same yahoo email for over 20 years now... never had an issue!”

A sibling has a similar record with Yahoo, her account uses his name.

However, the rest of us, often have problems sending replies to her.


25 posted on 11/05/2023 8:00:18 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you’ve never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: Chickensoup

Proton mail not working with Outlook is a feature and not a bug.


26 posted on 11/05/2023 8:01:48 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: gnarledmaw; All

If you need anonymity, I suggest a throwaway account like mailinator.com where you can use it when you have to fill out forms that you don’t want to have your normal email address bedause you know they Wil, spam your account.

You pick any name you want, like say kangaroo@mailinator.com, or picklepuke@mailinator.com, whatever you wish, fill out the form where some company requests your email, then go to picklepuke@mailinator.com and you will see the email from the company in the inbox there. You don’t need to sign up either.

They keep the emails for I think 3 days or so, then they autodelete them or you can do so yourself.

From then on, all the spam that the company you had to fill out a form for goes to the mailinator account, not your regular email


27 posted on 11/05/2023 8:06:25 AM PST by Bob434
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To: gnarledmaw

You’re better off paying a small amount for an account. If it’s ‘free’ you’re paying in other ways.


28 posted on 11/05/2023 8:06:28 AM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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To: Bob434

One thing though, some companies are wise to throwaway account ts and won’t allow them, but most are unaware it seems


29 posted on 11/05/2023 8:07:31 AM PST by Bob434
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To: gnarledmaw

Apply for a domain and set up your own server. It’s easy with an old computer.


30 posted on 11/05/2023 8:13:15 AM PST by nagant
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To: gnarledmaw

My cell phone battery went dead. My phone was erratic. I had SIM card problems because of corrosion here in Florida.

I bought a new SIM card and had to change my phone number.

Google wanted me to confirm using my old phone number.

Eventually Google let me use a previous cell phone and Wi-Fi to confirm.

I reset my newer phone and I am not putting Google contact information back on it.

I often use library computers due to their faster internet and cell phone data limits. Google doesn’t like me switching around. I don’t like to carry my cell phone when leaving the house because I don’t expect to need to use it.


31 posted on 11/05/2023 8:23:37 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: gnarledmaw

If you want control, privacy, and security, go to some place like namecheap.com, get a domain like yourlastname.email, sign up for their email service on that domain.

This will be your own email that you control, no one else can read your email (unlike gmail and everyone else that reads your stuff), because you PAY for the service. It is yours. You own that domain name. Right now, namecheap.com has a year of email for $30. Domain names usually around $13 a year or less.

For instance, gnarledmaw.email, right now is $4.98 a year. Email on that domain will run $30 a year for three email boxes, 30GB of storage and mobile device access. OR, $48 a year for 5 email boxes and 75GB of storage plus other goodies. Those mail boxes mean 3 or 5 people, such as Jim@yourlastname.emil and Mary@yourlastname.emil.

This is more than some people can do technically, but it isn’t all that difficult and you can own your email address forever and have privacy and security.

Just another options some people might want to look at instead of going to email services like proton or gmail.


32 posted on 11/05/2023 8:24:44 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: devane617
Good philosophy.

However, I have read that encryption remains if you stay within the same domain.

Proton to Proton.

And is transferred unencrypted when you change domains.

Proton to outlook, Proton to Comcast. etc.

A huge and rather complicated task — you can create your own email server. I have done this. It is more of a message service that uses the email app but it has encryption but doesn't cross domains and remains below the radar and is essentially free if you have a spare computer.

33 posted on 11/05/2023 8:28:45 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve tested the free version of Proton and like it

Guess I will get a real subscription soon.

Eventually I hope to dump GMail.

I’ve tried hushmail but wasn’t impressed.


34 posted on 11/05/2023 8:31:03 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: gnarledmaw

First ... get your own domain registered an then create your own permanent email..emaile address should be transferable as a phone number to what ever service you use.

You can then have it forwarded to any service you use


35 posted on 11/05/2023 8:52:07 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: gnarledmaw

While you’re exploring updating or changing your email provider you may wish to take a look at email clients vs. webmail.

Most of us use webmail these days, largely due to its simplicity. All you need is access to a web browser and access to the internet and you can send & receive messages.

But what if you want more control over your personal emails?

When you use a web-based email provider all of your content (emails, address books, calendars, etc) are hosted on the providers servers - you’re just remotely viewing it. When you use an email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird you are actually downloading the content to your local hard drive. Once the content is downloaded it no longer resides on the server and access to it is accomplished locally.

There are trade-offs that must be considered when configuring the sort of experience you wish. Setup for Outlook or Thunderbird is a bit more complicated than web-based email. Archiving and storage of email folders (where your downloaded emails live) requires dedicated hard drive space and should include some sort of backup strategy.

The convenience of web-based email comes at a price as well. What happens if you can’t access an email containing time sensitive material because of an internet outage? I can still access all of my delivered mail whether I have access to the internet or not.

Recently a friend came to me and complained that she couldn’t get logged into her Juno webmail. We tried everything including several calls to their (worthless) tech support but were unable to reset her password. All of her emails, all her addresses, all the content is gone.

Microsoft changed their protocols for email interoperability - now I can’t use their application (Outlook) unless I upgrade to the newest version (Office365). So I shifted all of my email accounts to Thunderbird.

It definitely wasn’t painless but I am still in control of my email.


36 posted on 11/05/2023 9:06:00 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now... )
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To: joe fonebone

... never had an issue

Earthlink, multiple accounts, about ten dollars a month, never any problems. Had been my ISP, then just kept the webmail accounts when we switched from dial up a bazillion years ago


37 posted on 11/05/2023 9:14:12 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: gnarledmaw

Here’s a comparison article.

https://kinsta.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail/


38 posted on 11/05/2023 9:27:02 AM PST by del griffith
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To: MeganC

Of outlook or proton?


39 posted on 11/05/2023 9:29:00 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Taffeys

Mail bridge go all fall down!

Lots!


40 posted on 11/05/2023 9:30:07 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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