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Advice please: Dumping gmail and looking for email recommendations (Vanity)
Self ^ | 11/6/2014 | Myself

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.


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Thanks for you comments. Likely others can benefit from the information you provide. If it matters, I use Outlook 2013 and do not use a smartphone, though that may change over the next year of so. I also use Firefox as my preferred browser.
1 posted on 11/06/2014 1:59:06 PM PST by tang-soo
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To: tang-soo

Install Windows ME, and use Outlook Express!!!

(yes.... that WAS a (bad) joke lol)


2 posted on 11/06/2014 2:01:25 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: tang-soo

Contact me on freepmail and I can add you to my domain. :) I think I have about 600 e-mail addresses left.


3 posted on 11/06/2014 2:02:44 PM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: tang-soo
Take a look at FastMail. They have plans ranging from $10/yr to $120/yr. They used to offer a free account, but not anymore.
4 posted on 11/06/2014 2:04:22 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: tang-soo

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.


5 posted on 11/06/2014 2:06:35 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: tang-soo

I use a Microsoft Live.com account - never given me any trouble.


6 posted on 11/06/2014 2:12:16 PM PST by februus
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To: Blue Jays
Yahoo mail is the absolute worst of the free providers.
It also "links" the whole conversation thread, so isolating the message to respond to one person (and not others) is nightmarish.

Gmail somehow "lost" my login credentials years ago and I never went back.
It was my firstname.lastname@gmail.com with a password that I would never lose, forget, mishandle, or whatever...yet Gmail miraculously found a way to make the account no longer accessible. LOL.
7 posted on 11/06/2014 2:19:16 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: tang-soo

Outlook.com (Microsoft) is a close second to Gmail.


8 posted on 11/06/2014 2:25:38 PM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: tang-soo

Hushmail.com is free, secure and quick. From Canada, eh!


9 posted on 11/06/2014 2:26:29 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not. I don't care...because we won!)
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To: tang-soo

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...


10 posted on 11/06/2014 2:28:26 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: tang-soo

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.


11 posted on 11/06/2014 2:47:23 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: tang-soo

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.


12 posted on 11/06/2014 2:47:44 PM PST by Zetman
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To: W.

Huh...I always that the Canucks were too busy brushing the snow off of their dog sled teams to do computers...who knew...


13 posted on 11/06/2014 2:50:50 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: tang-soo

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.


14 posted on 11/06/2014 3:01:13 PM PST by TomGuy
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No one here is using Thunderbird? I changed over about a year ago and found its multiple platform capability perfect for my work.


15 posted on 11/06/2014 3:24:14 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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I use Thunderbird. What is multiple platform capability?

Cordially,

16 posted on 11/06/2014 3:30:06 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: KoRn

Reagan.com


17 posted on 11/06/2014 3:36:45 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: tang-soo

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.


18 posted on 11/06/2014 3:44:05 PM PST by Roses0508
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To: Louis Foxwell

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.


19 posted on 11/06/2014 3:48:14 PM PST by Roses0508
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To: tang-soo

I use outlook.com


20 posted on 11/06/2014 3:51:00 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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