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.
as I said in my previous comment, it happens so often you have to figure Yahoo is hacked at the root level or it is their own people doing it. When you decide to close out your Yahoo email account you’ll find a screen saying they have the right to “recycle” your email address. Oh, that’s just dandy. Someone using my old email account with my name on it. What could go wrong?????
Hope I didn’t cause any confusion, the reply was actually to Ductape. I am constantly searching out software and was going to keep my eyes open for an alternative “desktop client” for him, but need to know his OS.
As for your email issue, I agree that Proton mail would probably be your best bet. I personally would rather open emails on someone else’s server who has the proper safeguards than to open them in a desktop client on my PC.
But if you were also curious about my OS I am using Linux Mint and it is GREAT, About ready to make the change over yet? I have helped several here get changed over to Linux and they say they like it! If you ever do, just drop me a PM. :)
I’ve had a yahoo address for about a decade and have never gotten that one.
I caught Yahoo actually going into my box and manipulating my mail. Deleting, Moving spam from my spam box to my main box. Etc. Straight up caught them at it and they had to apologize. Nope... To late, done and never went back.
Two weeks warning and no forwarding message after they stop the service. UGH.
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one of the many reasons the internet and providers should be regulated as utiliites
Oh; I know it’s not secure content. Nothing cloud based really is. Even a home or office based email program can be hacked even with a home/office server.
That’s the problem with email. It’s not really ever secure. Not sure faxes are either even though they say it is.
I think a huge chunk (most) of our privacy went away with the advent of the Internet and going into the digital age in general. Pretty much everything gets digitized these days. I guess this was the price to pay for this “new” technology that made our lives easier in some ways, worse in others, and more informed/misinformed in yet other ways. Social media can be a life sucking parasite or it can be a good tool depending on how they are used.
Even FR, which I can’t say enough good about, can be a time and mental drain if used too much. JMHO. Sometimes knowing too much can be really depressing at times I guess.
I have a tower with a removable hard drive tray so I can plug in hard drives at will. I still run Windows 7 but I'm also loading a hard drive with Windows 10.
I'm trying to make the jump to Linux, specifically Linux Mint Cinnamon, but I've only gotten as far as experimental stages so far, nothing really deep. So Windows is where I'm at.
After seeing how my employer, namely, the US Guberment, wants to keep my emails and data somewhere else and not let me keep it stored locally where "I" can control it and not them, well, suffice to say I don't trust it in the hands of anyone else but me.
That's the biggest reason why I use email client software that let's me download it to my local machine. I then keep it backed up on portable hard drives. That's also why I like to use programs like Outlook and FossaMail because I know where the data is stored and can back it up regularly.
So if I was to migrate to another email client, and if that client was on Linux Mint, it would be a huge learning curve for me, but one that I would undertake because I do not trust email servers anywhere to store my data. I trust myself, that's it.
Now, all that being said, if I was to purchase a domain and have a email server set up on it, I'm cool with that. Again, another learning curve but if it helps in my endeavors, great.
Just wanted to know what email desktop client you would need. Most are made for both windows and Linux, but some are specific for each. With the linux you can set up your own personal in house email server of your own rather than just a client.
I am running dual boot Mint Cinnamon 18.3 over win 7 myself and LOVE it, feels and functions just like win 7. I am to the point where I can scrub the win 7 if I want and never miss it. I am never going to use win 10, and I know I don’t have to tell you why. Have you installed the Linux in a machine yet or just running it from a live CD/Stick?
You would like the dual boot option, even booted in linux you can still go drag and drop or copy and paste files and folders from the windows folders to the Linux folders. Pretty cool. :)
Here’s a good one. Last evening I setup my wife’s car Homelink to the garage door opener. I don’t even remember searching the web for it. Today I went to Amazon and the top item was a Homelink adapter. Did the car notify Amazon?
To top it off my car doesn’t have Homelink.
I see where you are at with this. Let me PM you... :)
The second one has Windows 10 1709 build. It's programmed to stay on that build and I've done my best to block MicroThief from getting any data from it/me thru various means I've found from searching the Internet. I have to have this hard drive because I do some work from home and that work requires W10.
I had a third hard drive I was playing around with Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1 on, but, I'm putting together a small tower for my ex-wife (please, don't ask) and I've using that hard drive for that machine. So I plan on getting another hard drive, a new one, for any future Linux builds.
What I plan on doing is putting together a whole new computer system. My current system is, geez, 8 years old, more or less, take away some of the system upgrades. It's a first generation i-7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive but the system board is original and it's got to be on its last legs.
So I want to do is purchase a 6th generation i-7 system board so I can still use Windows 7 on it, clone the dual-boot hard drive I got now, re-partition it, then tri-boot it with Linux Mint. Then go from there.
Man... You got a lot going on in a whole lot of directions! lol Now I see why it might be a little harder for you to get set up than normal. :)
I won't be getting a newer system built for me for quite some time so I'll work with what I got, but, I'll be purchasing a new system a piece at a time then putting it together later.
I hear ya about Windows 10, though. I don't trust it, never will, that's why I will never fully implement here. I'll continue to use Windows 7 even after the support stops and then I'll get Linux up and running, probably even have a virtual box with W7 on it.
I sent you a PM and have found something more for you in addition. :)
If you don’t mind replying so that I don’t start a second PM thread.
I’ve always been kind of scared of Outlook. I always thought it might be a gateway to the Microsoft tech hack. It isn’t even on my current windows 7 system. Do you have an opinion about Outlook.
WhatsApp is owned by facebook and will suck up ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND EMAIL.
why anyone would use gmail is beyond me.
They SUCK UP ALL YOUR EMAIL and spit it out to advertisers.
And they hate America.
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