[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]

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.