Posted on 01/25/2021 8:31:19 AM PST by Chickensoup
shameless Vanity. Need direction on who to hire. Want someone who can help me move my emails to a new platform, who can help me down load my cloud, and who can install a vpn on my devices or network. Who do I call??
The old computer guys in the area want to give me easy out of the box answers and are upset that I use Brave and am thinking of using Proton.
The old computer guys in the area want to give me easy out of the box answers and are upset that I use Brave and am thinking of using Proton.
Ping.
They are upset you use Brave? I have been using it for more than a week so far and I have to say it works very well - better than Firefox.
Brave is great.
Mr. mm switched us over and it took minutes.
I’d download all emails locally using an email client (POP3). If you don’t like your current email provider, simply use another that you can use POP3 with and send out emails to everyone who needs to know your new email address. Thunderbird and Outlook are two common options.
Instructions on how to install a paid-for VPN come with the subscription. Better ones include PIA VPN and NordVPN. It is easy with Windows or your phone to use a VPN. If you want your router to be your VPN gateway, that can get more technical and might require a 3rd party router firmware (it’d be a free, open source choice).
As for your “cloud,” simply drag and drop all files you see to your computer, then erase the cloud drive after proving you got the files locally.
On the emails, you won’t “move them” them to the new host—you keep them local and just never upload them to the new provider. IMAP keeps them on the remote server while POP3 brings them to your computer. There is an option to have POP3 delete them from the provider as they are copied down.
Hope this helps.
I think it’s a bit like finding a doctor in your area. There are all sorts of people that may claim expertise but not all would have same abilities or ither professional attributes. You want to ask around in your area and eventually you will find the right person if you start hearing the same glowing reports from people like yourself who had same or similar work done.
Maybe a general location will help generate some responses?
It is surprising to me how many younger people who basically grew up with computers have not bothered to learn the basics of using and navigating through folders/directories. I have seen a lot of well illustrated books with step by step instructions, some of which I have given to friends and family members over the years to try and get them up to speed. But they hardly ever bother to crack the covers and instead want me to take care of their issues.
I have used NordVPN for many years on my computers and devices and have been very happy with it. As far as copying your stuff off the cloud... it should be mostly just navigating to where it is stored and copying it to the directory/folder of your choice on your local hard drive. Copying emails from Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook Live, Apple Mail, etc. is a similar situation. Then just pick your new email provider and start letting people and businesses you correspond with that you are changing your primary email address.
I would recommend looking for multiple DIFFERENT certifications. Don't go with someone who is a single vendor certified top to bottom. Look for skills in different OS implementations (windows, linux, oracle, etc). Also look for certifications in networking and security.
Certification providers to start looking for:
COMPTIA (vendor agnostic certs - A+, Network+, Security+, Linux+)
RedHat, LPI, GIAC, Google, AWS
How do you get POP3?
The most important thing about Proton is to get all your contacts using it.
It is far less secure if only one party uses it.
Your email provider is likely already providing it, but you have to configure that setting on your email client (Thunderbird/Outlook/etc.).
You can check with your provider to see if they have it available, then configure your client, as needed. It’s usually a radio button and a server name change in your local client.
Hotmail, Gmail, and about everyone else has that, but I have seen a fee cases where it was an added cost (Hushmail in the past).
Ghostbusters of course.
Where are you located? Do you want someone local?
If you’re looking for remote help, post a job on upwork.com. You’ll get lots of people offering to help— some local, some from far away. Use best judgement when hiring them.
Recommend using chrome/google’s https://remotedesktop.google.com for getting support. You can follow along with what they’re doing if they need to do something on your computer.
I haven’t made much use of VPNs except for work, so I can’t really help with that, but the email stuff is fairly easy to fix.
You didn’t mention if you are using a standalone email client to read your email, or if you are using some kind of webmail through your browser.
If you are currently using a browser to read your mail, you need an email client. I recommend Thunderbird because it is fairly simple, easy to configure and will actually accept plugins that work with PGP/GPG for encrypted email.
Once you’ve installed it, you have to go to your email site, and search around for POP settings. They will most likely be there somewhere. What you need from the “POP” (Post Office Protocol) settings are the server names for getting and sending your mail (they are likely different). You’ll also want to make note of what ‘port’ each server operates on, and if it requires you to use the encrypted ports (this is recommended). You will also need your username/password to pull mail.
There will also likely be instructions for how to set it up in Thunderbird, as it is a well-known program. If they don’t have that, you can search for “Thunderbird pop configuration” using google or whatever your favorite search engine might be. When you configure it in TB, the program will actually attempt to connect to the mail server to verify that it works. If you get an error, you likely did something wrong.
Once configured, Thunderbird can pull all your mail down and will store it locally. Personally, I set up TB to ‘delete mail from server’ when it pulls down messages so they won’t remain there.
Proton tells you how on their site, and will help directly if you are using a paid account. IIRC
Since you've already paid me, you know it will be professional {by definition}.
Hurry, do it today.
You know, I dont WANT to do it my self. I am happy to pay someone to do it.
I downloaded NordVPN, and it required a level of knowledge that I do not have.
thank you
Why do you assume that there is not a single person who can do both?
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