Posted on 01/06/2022 6:20:30 PM PST by Wuli
There are others doing that service for a fee, and I would not have to do many things myself to avail myself of their service other than pay a small fee; some even give encrypted Email service. I feel I don’t need to manage all the other business of doing it all myself. POP service provides what I need as far as my Emails not residing for very long on an outside service providers servers and with them always deleted from their servers as I bring/get the Email into my own PC equipment. I think that is as good as I need and less work for me.
Thanks for the info.
In my experience with friends I found those friends with Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL & Gmail had the worst security experience with their accounts getting hacked into with their contacts stored there pilfered and disseminated more than all my other friends who never used those services. Then there was the reports that Google was reading and scraping info from the content in the Gmail accounts. No thanks.
No on keeping my current Email and having it forward to a new one. I want 100% of my Email business removed from Verizon/AOL, at once, permanently. I will go through the work of informing all my personal contacts and changing the Email address in my profiles with banks, credit cards, vendors & clients, subscriptions, utilities, ect. That large task is just time consuming but not more than that.
No POP3 is not obsolete and the advantage security wise is with the proper POP setup parameters made the Email you get (bring into your Thunderbird Email client app) is deleted, not left sitting there, on your Email service providers servers.
IMAP is nothing more than an image/copy of what is sitting on your Email service providers system, thats all - its a mirror. Moving things to “trash” on your desktop just mirror-like moves them to trash on your service providers system, but there they still exist; as are all other Email changes you made - all ON THEIR SERVERS and mirrored to your PC. With POP I leave NOTHING on their servers; and I hjave no need to. And with Thunderbird properly profiled on both my PC and my Laptop, and with the Thunderbird data all on one USB remote data device, and always backed up, I can have the same Email files on either computer as I need, have no large and very little storage demands at the Email service providers end. No. IMAP is not only not obsolete, I have zero need for it.
>Maybe ProtonMail is being politically naive, who knows?
Thanks for the link, warrants further assessment of this company
Fwiw:
In the 12 years I’ve had my Hotmail, I’ve NEVER had a security issue of ANY type, including phishing emails.
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