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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 14 2019, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
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I would like to ask my fellow soylentists... What do you do for an email solution?

For almost 20 years, I have had my own personal domains along with corresponding websites, email, and any other needed service. As I am older now, I no longer need any of the visibility of my own website; I do not need it for getting new jobs, or to host any application or service. However, I still need email. My current ISP has annoyed me with rising fees and a lack of any service (not surprisingly, it went downhill really fast once their business was merged with another.)

So, I am looking to drop everything except the actual domains and the email, (not to mention change providers.) What solutions does everyone else use? Are you happy with your provider?

The biggest feature I am looking for is some type of "catchall" email address. While I realize this means a lot more spam, I am already filtering the 99% of that out. For years, I have created many single use email addresses for various websites. (e.g. keyword@mydomain.xxx ) IMO, this creates better security, because anyone trying to access my accounts need to know the email address I used as well as the password, and I also find out which websites sell my email address to others or get breached. It seems that the majority of sites do not have this simple feature anymore.

Due to my multiple handles, most of the simple email sites will not work for me. Not to mention sites that charge per email handle are not very good either. While I can consolidate with a catch-all address, this is not a preferred method.

I prefer POP3 so that I can have multiple devices access my email and webmail is a plus but not required.

So does anyone know of a email site that will fit my needs? Or is my best chance to create my own email server on a linode VPS? (Though I would prefer a simple premade solution instead of maintaining my own server at this point.)


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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Wednesday August 14 2019, @02:19PM (3 children)

    by Appalbarry (66) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @02:19PM (#880209) Journal

    After a decade or more of using Google for everything I've finally moved almost everything off of the G cloud.
    Most things now live in a Nextcloud instance, but email is with the services provided by my excellent, privacy oriented, great customer service oriented host EasyDNS.
    I have messed with email servers in the past, and fall into the camp that can't be bothered. Admittedly I do miss Gmail's excellent spam filtering.
    What did surprise was the near complete lack of standalone email clients that looked like they had been designed this century. I finally gave in and settled for Thunderbird, but wow, is it creaky. I honestly expected to find some new, zippy, totally modern client but came up with options that either had significant limitations or required the use of someone else's servers to work.
    I have though been happy with the default non-Gmail client on my Huawei phone though. Is that an Android app? Or Huawei's? I don't know, but it works just fine.
    I now have almost everyone transitioned from Gmail to new addresses, and as a bonus everything worked out of the box on a recent trip to China while everything Google was blackholed.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:30PM (2 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:30PM (#880270) Journal
    I see plenty of us dropped Gmail. That's one metric for how they are losing trust by competing to be the most evil.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @07:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @07:02PM (#880453)

      Add one more to the count... Can only take so much abuse, right?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @01:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @01:36PM (#880564)

        The chat window for writing emails did it for me.
        This was before the privacy issues.