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My main email accounts are with Gmail and Hotmail. I'm interested in email options which are less prone to data mining than some of the big tech options. What are you using / what do you recommend? ------------- $ | ||
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Proton ----------------------------------------- Roll Tide! Glock Certified Armorer NRA Certified Firearms Instructor | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
My own mail server  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Just started a tutanota email Have gmail for others, sadly... --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
I’ve used FastMail.com for more than 10 years. About $20/year for my service level. * Supports IMAP & POP3 for downloads, SMTP for uploads. * Supports aliases. * Superb spam filtering. * Near 100% uptime. * No data mining. I use the POP3 download protocol which supports only one email client. For me that’s an email client on my MacBook. But FastMail has an excellent web interface that I use on my iPhone. Most people seeing me use it would think that it’s an email client. It’s great to have only one (reliable) email address. It’s the username for most of my accounts. Serious about crackers | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
aol, gmail, .edu I have a paid email / domain through ionos.com. It's $2 a month. $1 first year to set up the domain name and $10 a year after. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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I have one email service through my internet provider, though I don't use it much anymore. My primary one is gmail. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I use Xfinity Connect. It works fine for my needs in retirement. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Same here but also have a handful of accounts for utility purposes with gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
I still have a Gmail address, but I don't use it for anything. Google lately has been refusing to let my email app log in for "security reasons." Used to be I'd have that problem occasionally. I'd have to login via the web, confirm there was no problem, confirm again I wanted to let "insecure" apps access my gmail, and all would be good for a while. Last time it happened they still wouldn't let my email client login. So I simply deleted the gmail address from my email client. I'm this >< close to deleting my Google account entirely. Problem is: When we still used Android I'd purchased around $100 worth of apps. If I delete my account those purchases will all go *poof*. There's a remote chance I may someday want to switch back to Android. Very remote, but not entirely out of the question. So I may just leave it active, but unused. Or Google may find a new way to piss me off and I'll nuke it I'm mostly out of the IT business, so I've little need for utility accounts any longer. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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W07VH5 |
What would a consultation cost to help someone setup and secure a home email server? | |||
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Better Than I Deserve! |
Protonmail for my private and personal email. I use Gmail for all my online ordering to keep Proton from filling up with spam. ____________________________ NRA Benefactor Life Member GOA Life Member Arizona Citizens Defense League Life Member | |||
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Mensch |
My ISP. I have junk accounts with the usual suspects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Truth Wins |
yahoo, gmail and protonmail _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| Experienced Slacker |
Ditto. Also worth mentioning I've had a proton account for months now, using a gmail as a in case of emergency recovery etc. for it, and not one spam message yet. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
GMail, ProtonMail, my own server (currently inoperative due to DNS problems), and I have a dozen or so accounts with various clients for testing and monitoring purposes. WRT Mark123's query about setting up a "home server," I'd be happy to assist. It isn't complicated, but there are a lot of moving pieces, and much depends on your ISP's policies and practices. I wouldn't want to try it with a standard residential account where one's IP address changes at the whim of the ISP. Yes, there are workarounds, but it is a lot more hassle than it used to be. There is also the reality that many email providers apparently don't want to accept mail from arbitrary senders necessitating the implementation of SPF and DMARC. Again, not a killer requirement, but incrementally adding to the hassle. Dealing with spam is the biggest problem most of my client's have, and it seems like a never ending battle, pushing off the anti-spam measures to a separate, dedicated system seems to be the most effective approach (short of paying someone to handle it for you). | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Yahoo. I've had the same e-mail address for 30 years and don't plan to change it. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Yep. Works well, same email address for 23 yrs. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
Yeah, I'd definitely go with the fixed IP business plan and I have no issues building a server and installing postfix. I just don't know what I'm doing with security and preventing getting blacklisted. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Yahoo (through Uverse) two address, Gmail, & iCloud. I use the different addresses for different purposes. For instance, my yahoo account is my general email. It catches a lot of activity, so if I'm looking for a response from someone that I don't want to miss, I'll use my iCloud account since it sees very little traffic. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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