”I have a guy...”
Posted on 01/06/2022 6:20:30 PM PST by Wuli
I am looking for a new Email service.
Currently have a Verizon Email address the service for which was moved by Verizon to AOL/Yahhoo after Verizon bought AOL/Yahoo.
The Email accounts originated with Verizon as part of the paid Internet service we have had with them. But before AOL that included tech support for the Email including speaking to a tech support person. Now if you want true tech support you have to upgrade the AOL mail account to a paid subscription account separate from the paid Internet service with Verizon.
I use the Thunderbird Email client application, using the POP mode with it, and want to continue using it and continue doing the POP mode (physically brings the Emails off the service providers servers and stores them locally in my PC equipment).
I am willing to pay a subscription for a good service and will never go to Gmail or any web based or cloud based Email system. I trust my own security better than the service providers (they now get hacked into more often than most individual users) and with POP the Email only resides on the service providers servers while it waits for the Email client software to go get it (my POP set up instructs the host severs to delete the emails I have drawn down to my PC ops).
Any ideas to offer??
”I have a guy...”
Purchase a domain name and you can setup your own email.
Following.
I’m willing to go through the pain of transferring and will also pay if there is a good alternative out there.
If you have a domain name and host service they should probably be able to get you a POP mail account on the cheap as part of the package if not already included. E.g. godaddy etc but there are others.
proton.
Be blessed!
I like ProtonMail. Everything is encrypted. No ads.
Changing your email address is not a consideration in any of this?
I would dread having to notify everyone.
Protonmail.com
Every email is encrypted.
Free VPN
Easy interface
I have a “free” service now, via my Verizon account which went to a “free” AOL account. I want out of that and my criteria is NOT that it be free but that I can still interact with the providers Email system using the Thunderbird Email client application using the POP mode.
Protonmail is good. However to get the equivalent of Pop3, you need their Bridge application.You need a paid subscription to Protonmail for that.
Check out outlook.com
One thing I forgot to mention. Bridge supports Thunderbird.
No thanks. No intent to buy a domain name nor reinvent the Email service wheel. Just looking for recommendations for an existing good Email service provider and even if I have to pay for it.
protonmail
Do NOT go with Godaddy if you want email service.
They turned their email system over to Microshaft, (Microsoft) and now charge for every email account.
Used to be included with their hosting packages, no longer. Huge ripoff, and HORRIBLE customer service, ever since they turned the company over to India.
That’s Microsoft so no thanks. There data files are proprietary and also not too import/exportable with the data files of other Email systems, many of which take a more open/compatible approach with their data files. I once had to leave a client stuck in outlook because she did not want to pay my extra costs it would have required (an other application tool) to get her outlook data exported out of outlook. It is even difficult to outlook data from an IMAP outlook account into an outlook POP account - even those two modes in outlook use different data files, the data of which was not all transferable.
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