Looking for a new email provider

[Daniel Cotter]

Hi folks,

Google is really starting to creep me out, what with the ads that
follow me from site to site and their unquenchable thirst to be my
best friend (and their cooperation with China, the CIA, etc.). I'd
like to switch to an email provider that just sent & received email,
filtered out spam, searched old emails efficiently, and left me alone
after that. Oh, and didn't read my emails for governmental collusion
or advertising purposes. I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for such
a service (like $10 / month or less). Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Daniel

[Warren Myers]

It's been a while since I last used SquirrelMail, but if you don't mind running your own server (which can be *very* these days), there are a variety of webmail packages you can install. In combination with spamassassin and a couple other tools, you can have a pretty nice email setup, imho, that's on your own domain.

WMM

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[Asian Steev]

ATTENTION GOOGLE.  DANIEL COTTER LIKES ONE-PIECE BUTT-FLAP PAJAMAS.

I REPEAT DANIEL COTTER LIKES ONE-PIECE BUTT-FLAP PAJAMAS.

hth,

-steev

[Daniel Cotter]

Great. Now that's the first line in my Google/FBI profile.

[Daniel Cotter]

Speak of the devil -- a new task just popped up in the sidepane:
"Looking for a new email provider." Yes, I am.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Asian Steev <asian...@gmail.com> wrote:

[William Dieter]

Escent is using Rackspace for email. The cost is $2 per mailbox per month for 10 GB of email space. A quick look at the site says it is a $10/month minimum.

The web interface does all the usual things reasonably well. I prefer to use a desktop email client, so I have never tried searching with the web interface. There is a free trial period, so you can see how well you like it before you commit.

Bill.

[Paul Eberhart]

I'm still using gmail because I estimated that the features and Android integration are worth the creepyness for the time being, but I actually wrote up a google exit plan for myself last time they made me nervous. ( http://www.pappp.net/?p=884 )

Shared hosting is so cheap lately that just getting yourself a VPS and a domain with a provider who has agreeable policies is cheaper than paying for individual replacement services.  Most of them come with mail and your choice of several pre-installed web frontends, which gives you basically as much control and privacy as any solution, managed and pre-configured for less hassle, and you get a vanity address and a machine dangling off the web for other uses out of it.  I'm fairly satisfied with bluehost, largely because I pre-paid three years so it came out to less than $5/mo for the VPS and domain, but know people on other competitive services with slightly different price and feature sets.

[Dave]

The other possibility would be to use encryption for e-mail. They can't read
what they can't decrypt! ;-) Of course, that requires the sender to send the
e-mail encrypted (using your public key), and it requires you to run a mail
client that supports decrypting your e-mail with your private key. Fortunately,
programs such as Thunderbird support encryption. There are, of course, some
difficulties, such as not being able to check your e-mail from a web-based client.
And, it requires you to keep a copy of your private key on any machine that you
may want to use for reading your e-mail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird#Security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_encryption

Also, don't forget that, for unencrypted e-mail, there's no predicting what path
it may flow across, and who may be snooping it as it flows through their nodes
(Not easy, but can be done!).

Dave

--- On Thu, 5/10/12, Paul Eberhart <papp...@gmail.com> wrote: