Posted on 11/06/2014 1:59:06 PM PST by tang-soo
After about 10 years with gmail.com, I've decides to migrate to a new email address.
I figure it will take few months, and will insert a forward rule in my current gmail account.
I'd like to find another free provider if possible. I don't mind using a service that wraps advertising around received message, but I don't want to use a provide that wraps around sent messages.
I know about reagan.com but they charge. I know they advertise explicitly that they do not browse messages for social engineering, advertising ... etc. That attracts me and if I do choose a fee-based service that's likely what I will choose.
I'd be interested in hearing your experiences, recommendations, and advice (both technical and practical).
BTW, the reason I'm doing this is google's continued invasion or privacy and socially interference.
Install Windows ME, and use Outlook Express!!!
(yes.... that WAS a (bad) joke lol)
Contact me on freepmail and I can add you to my domain. :) I think I have about 600 e-mail addresses left.
If you shared some of the reasons you want to change, it might help focus the suggestions. I use Gmail, yahoo, and outlook.com, and prefer Gmail. Yahoo is by far the worst (slow, downtime). Outlook.com is pretty nice, but if you are tryign to get your mail out of teh hands of big corporate prying eyes, you might as well stay with Gmail.
I use a Microsoft Live.com account - never given me any trouble.
Outlook.com (Microsoft) is a close second to Gmail.
Hushmail.com is free, secure and quick. From Canada, eh!
Before writing off Gmail for good, consider that it is among the very best in spam filtering. You may regret moving to another ‘free’ service that doesn’t do nearly as well.
I’ll go along with others who complain about Yahoo Mail. I’ve noticed that, whenever I get a suspicious message that purports to originate from one of my ‘friends’ but turns out to be spam or a phishing attempt, it’s nearly always been from a friend who uses Yahoo.
Just one guy’s opinion...
Check out free internet email provider at www.mail.com.
I’ve used it for about 10 years as secondary but made it my prime email provider when I closed out my old internet provider and lost that email access.
I echo what the poster said above, take a look at hushmail.com.
They are ad-free, claim they do not scan your e-mails, and you can encrypt the messages you send. They offer free accounts with some restrictions (max storage limit, and you must log in every 3 weeks or your account becomes inactive). They also offer pay accounts with no restrictions.
Huh...I always that the Canucks were too busy brushing the snow off of their dog sled teams to do computers...who knew...
If you can read German, check out http://www.gmx.net .
I signed up for an email account years ago. Then, their website was in English and German. After a while, they dropped the English part.
I still have the email account and can figure out how to delete old email, etc.
No one here is using Thunderbird? I changed over about a year ago and found its multiple platform capability perfect for my work.
Cordially,
Reagan.com
You get what you pay for. That said, Go-Daddy is very inexpensive and their anti-spam WORKS. You can use webmail or download via POP3 or IMAP to the mail client of your choice. You can set up your own domain also.
We use inexpensive POP3 and IMAP for our personal stuff and a hosted exchange solution for our business. We’ve never had an outage of any kind. We buy enough, so that the grandchildren can have e-mail addresses instead of using gmail or something like that.
cM Client is an excellent free mail client that has the look and feel of Outlook, but behaves much better with IMAP.
I used Thunderbird for my personal e-mail until they terminated the project. There will be no more updates for it. I now use eM Client, which is free for personal use and is excellent. It works very will with IMAP - something that was a bit problematic with Outlook until 2013.
I use outlook.com
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