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WHat is a good email client?
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Posted on 03/31/2019 4:40:46 AM PDT by ProudFossil

Our ISP is stopping their email service in two weeks. What is a good free replacement? We have a total of five accounts on the current service. Thank you.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Society
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1 posted on 03/31/2019 4:40:46 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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GMX, Yahoo, and outlook are decent. Gmx is not a big name service but works. Also, if just for short chats, WhatsApp works well, but it’s not a real email service.


2 posted on 03/31/2019 4:53:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ProudFossil

Before you start getting suggestions you may want to establish what you need, free or do you need a very secure paid service for any reason?


3 posted on 03/31/2019 4:56:14 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: ProudFossil

Free choices.
Gmail for establishing accounts, they allow to use the + address modifier. Like me+freepers AT gmail.com or me+townhall AT gmail.com. All mail would go to me AT gmail.com & would filter on the + modifier for administration. (One caution not all sites recognise the + as valid with some rare cases where they accept the address for registration but it fails for login). An unmonitored account for junk stuff is easy as well.
GMXmail
Proton mail ( encryption & retention features )


4 posted on 03/31/2019 5:00:49 AM PDT by ClockDoc ( - Let the churches attend to the poor and the Gov. attend to our enemies.)
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I’ve used Gmail for a range of accounts for some years. It’s very robust, flexible and has spam filters that are better than anyone else’s.


5 posted on 03/31/2019 5:14:57 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ProudFossil

Yahoo is pretty good, especially if you make use of the block email feature for junk mail.


6 posted on 03/31/2019 5:22:57 AM PDT by MomwithHope (IMO Patrick McGoohan - Inventor of the Red Pill)
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proton mail

if you don’t mind the high speed, and Chinese characters, go with www.163.com. The NSA is blocked from all Chinese servers.

Whatever you do DO NOT use an American email service. They are all compromised one way or the other.


7 posted on 03/31/2019 5:23:17 AM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: ProudFossil; ShadowAce
Got to first establish what exactly you're talking about. Are you talking about software for your computer or are you talking about webmail?

If your internet service provider is ceasing to provide email service, my first reaction is why the heck are they doing that? That's part of what you're paying them to provide. I'd be looking for a new ISP and ditch them.

That aside, I don't know that I trust any of the standard webmail services out there because they'll all sell your information. GMail, Yahoo, you name it, they're all on the take. Even though I have both of those, they are only used as backup and nothing more. I keep nothing on them as contains any personal data.

I've been looking for a good email client software lately because I want to eventually get away from using Microsoft Outlook but I can't find anything (so far) that comes close to its capabilities.

I used eClient in the past but when they changed their interface/toolbar they lost me. It became very user "unfriendly.

I used Thunderbird also but when they went all Commie pinko I stopped using it as well. I migrated to FossaMail (a Palemoon offshoot) but it's no longer supported or updated.

So as email client software goes, I'm still looking. I wish I could help you out further but that's about all I got. If anyone else has anything to add, please do. I'm cc'ing ShadowAce on this. Maybe he can forward this out to his contact list and get some responses.

8 posted on 03/31/2019 5:25:45 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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Just remember that if your email is free, then you are the product for sale.

Google executives have stated their disdain for conservatives, so I would think twice or three times about using free anything from them, or any other left leaning big tech firms.

Three email services that you may want to consider:

Startmail

Cotse

Reagan

You can own an email service subscription, or it can own you - your choice.

9 posted on 03/31/2019 5:27:28 AM PDT by disclaimer
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When Verizon and AT&T dropped email, they transitioned existing accounts (and addresses) to AoL and Yahoo respectively (which they each then bought). I’m surprised that your existing ISP hasn’t made arrangements for such a transition to preserve existing addresses. Frontier made a similar arrangement at some point for existing customers, but made no provision for newly acquired customers to get a Frontier address.

If you are going to start from scratch, Gmail, Yahoo, and AoL are the big three; AoL generates occasional spam trying to sell additional services, but nothing unbearable. AoL works well with the Microsoft Mail (formerly Outlook Express) client, so if that is what you have been using, transition shouldn’t be too bad. And if you aren’t planning on any terrorist activities, any of those three free services should be sufficient.

I saw a mention of WhatsApp up thread - just be aware it is part of Zukerberg’s spyware network.


10 posted on 03/31/2019 5:50:18 AM PDT by PAR35
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who is your isp?


11 posted on 03/31/2019 5:54:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: PAR35

This page may help

https://www.lifewire.com/best-linux-unix-email-clients-for-windows-converts-1172608


12 posted on 03/31/2019 5:56:50 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: vannrox
Whatever you do DO NOT use an American email service. They are all compromised one way or the other.

If you use a foreign email service, where your communications crosses the USA boarder, such using Canadian Hush Mail or Switzerland Proton Mail, from within the USA, the NSA is said to routinely intercept and store your communications - encrypted or not.

Someday technology may allow easy perusal of those emails, otherwise considerable compute resources may be used on targeted persons nowadays to brute force decrypt.

I don't have any reference to back this up, I've come across information over the years revealing that boarder crossing in-bound traffic is subject to gov retention. So take this for what it's worth.

13 posted on 03/31/2019 6:01:25 AM PDT by disclaimer
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Do yourself a favor and stay away from google. google hates conservatives and manipulates searches and censors them on YouTube. They make their money selling the intimate details of your life that they Hoover up 24/7. Using them funds their censorship of the web. Try ProtonMail. They are in Europe and are privacy oriented


14 posted on 03/31/2019 6:03:58 AM PDT by cyberstoic
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gmail and Yahoo! read your emails and target advertising to YOU.

It’s NOT free if they are reading/recording everything YOU write and what others write to YOU.

I have my own domains and have email service from my domains via GoDaddy.

For example: you could ‘buy’ the domain ProudFossil.com (it’s available), add email and you are ready to go.

Your main email, would be: proud@proudfossil.com,

For a throwaway email: inof@proudfossil.com.

If you can afford $30 a year for an email service get your own domain and use IT.

NO gmail crap to deal with.

Best!


15 posted on 03/31/2019 6:07:46 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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A couple of quick tips.

If course use tough passwords on your webmail.

Get 2 or more email addresses
One as your primary
One to forward all your primary to so that in an emergency you have a quick backup
One to use as a decoy for ordering off the web

You can have a webmail and run it with an email client keeping email on your computer and your webmail


16 posted on 03/31/2019 6:13:40 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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Please clarify.

Are they simply ending web-based access to your email, in which case you would simply need to get an email client that does POP3 access.

If they are closing your email accounts with them and ending any sort of email server then you’re going to have to get your own service on a different server.


17 posted on 03/31/2019 6:26:18 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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For secure email I prefer to use Protonmail.com. It's secure and it's free. You can encrypt your email if you choose. It's also based in the Canton of Geneva which puts it outside of the reach of the snooping US government.
18 posted on 03/31/2019 6:35:36 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.ai)
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Anybody who uses Yahoo is a fool. My Yahoo email was compromised several times even with strong passwords. I even got spam emails from myself. They weren’t spoofed either, Grrrrr. I always suspected it was from inside Yahoo too, not from outside sources. The Oath agreement was the final straw, where they can use your own pictures or anything else as they see fit. BUll****. They wanted an increase in the cost too on top of it. I have hushmail now and couldn’t be more happy, no spam at all.


19 posted on 03/31/2019 6:36:30 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Chickensoup
who is your isp?

Started as WildBlue.com. Bought by Excede and changed to WildBlue.net. Still usable. Then Viasat bought Excede. They changed the primary email server to Zimbra.com (?). And now they are dropping that server. Two weeks warning and no forwarding message after they stop the service. UGH.

20 posted on 03/31/2019 6:54:35 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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