Looking for a new Email service

01/06/2022 | Wuli

[Wuli]

why? getting my own domain is a prerequisite for getting a good Email service???

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

I pulled hushmail, proton, and gmail x 2 into thunderbird for quite awhile. Gave up on proton as it required their bridge to run background 100% of time, and the paid subscription wasn’t cheap. They double the price the 2nd year.

I’ve stuck with hushmail as my confidential one. The gmails are for work and non-deplorable stuff.

[Wuli]

I said in my starting post I will have nothing to do with Gmail.

[Chickensoup]

I moved to proton mail about 4 months ago. I like it

[UB355]

Not outlook, outlook.com

[PLMerite]

I am in a similar boat. I currently have access to my @verizon account only through the AOL online website. I’m getting ready to transition from my decade-old Windows 7 computer to a new one which will have Windows 10. Then I can start sorting out the email crap on that and my phone.

[SuperLuminal]

" Yes, it will require some work and patience but in my view Verizon screwed its long time Internet service customers when it dumped them into AOL with no provision with AOL to continue the tech support Verizon had provided at no additional separate monthly charge & I do not like things that AOL does and hate having to ever see their Leftwing “news” pages every time it becomes necessary to have to go to their stupid web pages for some reason."

Yes indeed! My thoughts for the last couple of years...
Had to give up Thunderbird...
Have Proton, but have never gotten it configured properly...

[Wuli]

hushmail looks promising

I’ll let you know if I choose it.

[Wuli]

Basket of Deplorables mentioned they are using hushmail. It does encryption and unlike Proton does not require an additional app to do POP to Thunderbird. I might look into hushmail.

[Wuli]

Its just a Microsoft web based version of Microsoft outlook. I’d tell them thanks but no thanks. No intention of being tied up with Microsoft.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Your diligence is commendable. Mine is deplorable.

[Do_Tar]

With your own Domain Name you can have any email address you want. I have about 15 right now on my domain name. Also any other emails sent to my domain will show up in a default account. Nice for seeing who’s selling my address.

Domain Names are about $15/yr and you can get basic hosting for $30+/yr.

Currently I’m with WebHostingPad and I see they’re offering a $3/month lifetime “mini” hosting and unlimited email addresses.

I’m using ThunderBird, mostly POP3.

[Grey182]

Protonmail (one of mine) just started donating to Reporters Without Borders, a Soros funded org..

[Wuli]

come back to this thread when you get ready and see what choice I finally make and why, maybe it will suit you too.

I found that AOL had dumped all sorts of things into the junk folder, with no hint to me they were doing it (I run my own Email filters in Thunderbird) and after which I never saw it because with Thunderbird/POP it pulls in only from the inbox - from the service providers inbox to the inbox in Thunderbird. Verizon never did that.

[Wuli]

I am glad you are happy with what you are doing.

For myself and my needs I am not convinced of any benefit to me to having my own domain. Maybe I am missing out on something and I just don’t know it. We’ll see. And thanks.

[Jayster]

Yes you are… you just don’t know it yet.

[Dr. Sivana]

I use hostgator.com with my own domain. $107.40 annually for web space and e-mail.

Note, the cheap version of these services understandably put you on a shared server. I anyone else on that server misbehaves it sometimes reflects poorly on your IP range and e-mail address as well. I have a client who has a dedicated server (probably a VM, but same difference) and they pay $203 per year from Hostgator.

[catnipman]

if you’re gonna go whole hog, first pay to lease your own domain ... i HIGHLY recommend godaddy.com as your registrar ... excellent support for domain management ... but i do NOT recommend using godaddy email, which is nothing more than them selling microsoft office 365 email at a markup and zero support ... so instead, obtain a 3rd party email service separate from godaddy and point the MX records on godaddy to the email service OR better yet, get full hosting and email service from a provider and point the DNS resolver records on godaddy to that service ... bluehost.com has offered me good support for many years as a service provider ...

[catnipman]

“I am totally ready to go through all my Internet based connections, personal, financial and otherwise, and provide each one with the necessary new Emil address(es) when the time comes.”

no need ... keep your old email service for a while and have it forward email to your new email address and at the same time send an auto-response email back to all senders that explains they should use your new email address in the future, that feature is called a “vacation” response, but it can be used for any purpose ...

also, POP is obsolete, instead you want to switch tbird to using IMAP, like POP, IMAP can load physical copies of your received emails to your PC plus maintain copies on the email server, but IMAP also will keep all devices you might use for email synchronized to the server ...

[Levy78]

Another vote for Proton mail here.