Posted on 11/05/2023 7:27:23 AM PST by gnarledmaw
Protonmail
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.
Another vote for protonmail. There are no ads.
In yahoo I have to navigate around recipes and other unwanted advertisements.
I second that emotion. Ive never had problems over the decades. Its email.
“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.
Proton mail not working with Outlook is a feature and not a bug.
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
You’re better off paying a small amount for an account. If it’s ‘free’ you’re paying in other ways.
One thing though, some companies are wise to throwaway account ts and won’t allow them, but most are unaware it seems
Apply for a domain and set up your own server. It’s easy with an old computer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
... 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
Of outlook or proton?
Mail bridge go all fall down!
Lots!
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