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Richard Owlett
Apr 19, 2023, 10:50:45 AM4/19/23
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My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up ISP.
They are dropping the last of their web related services.
To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
Suggestions?
TIA
They are dropping the last of their web related services.
To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
Suggestions?
TIA
Marco Moock
Apr 19, 2023, 1:27:19 PM4/19/23
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Am 19.04.2023 um 09:50:39 Uhr schrieb Richard Owlett:
> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up
> ISP. They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>
> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
Many provide POP3 and IMAP. Are there any other restrictions from your
> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up
> ISP. They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>
> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
side?
Richard Owlett
Apr 19, 2023, 1:35:49 PM4/19/23
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> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
webmail.
John Hasler
Apr 19, 2023, 2:08:05 PM4/19/23
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Bit Twister
Apr 19, 2023, 3:16:00 PM4/19/23
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I have changed from pop tp imap and use fetchmail to automagically
pull down any email to my local user accounts and have a root cron job
to pop up an xmessage window telling me who has mail.
Kirk_Rockstein
Apr 19, 2023, 3:27:09 PM4/19/23
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Marco Moock
Apr 19, 2023, 3:36:02 PM4/19/23
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Am 19.04.2023 um 12:35:43 Uhr schrieb Richard Owlett:
> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>
> > All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
> > Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>
> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly
> ignore webmail.
There are providers like mailbox.org or posteo.de that offer you
> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>
> > All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
> > Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>
> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly
> ignore webmail.
POP3/IMAP/SMTP access.
Do you have any other restrictions like privacy, paying options, tlds.
John Hasler
Apr 19, 2023, 4:08:05 PM4/19/23
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Richard Owlett writes:
> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly ignore
> webmail.
pobox.com requires neither a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone and
> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly ignore
> webmail.
supports pop3. They offer Webmail access but you are free to ignore it
as I do.
Richard Owlett
Apr 20, 2023, 7:31:02 AM4/20/23
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On 04/19/2023 02:15 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:50:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up ISP.
>> They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>>
>> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
>
> Personally I use free gmail.com accounts
I was thinking explicitly of Google's definition of free(sic) when I
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:50:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up ISP.
>> They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>>
>> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
>
> Personally I use free gmail.com accounts
wrote "To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services."
Richard Owlett
Apr 20, 2023, 7:45:00 AM4/20/23
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Chris Elvidge
Apr 20, 2023, 7:54:33 AM4/20/23
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On 20/04/2023 12:30, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/19/2023 02:15 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:50:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up ISP.
>>> They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>>>
>>> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
>>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Personally I use free gmail.com accounts
>
> I was thinking explicitly of Google's definition of free(sic) when I
> wrote "To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services."
I use both outlook.com and gmail.com as POP3 servers to Thunderbird (via
> On 04/19/2023 02:15 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:50:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> My current provider is a small local company who once was a dial-up ISP.
>>> They are dropping the last of their web related services.
>>>
>>> To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services.
>>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Personally I use free gmail.com accounts
>
> I was thinking explicitly of Google's definition of free(sic) when I
> wrote "To avoid ads, I'm considering only paid services."
a pihole).
I don't ever get any ads.
>
>
>> for access via my Mageia Linux system.
>> I have changed from pop tp imap and use fetchmail to automagically
>> pull down any email to my local user accounts and have a root cron job
>> to pop up an xmessage window telling me who has mail.
>>
>
Chris Elvidge
England
Richard Owlett
Apr 20, 2023, 7:59:44 AM4/20/23
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On 04/19/2023 03:02 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Richard Owlett writes:
>> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>
>>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>
>> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly ignore
>> webmail.
>
> pobox.com requires neither a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone and
> supports pop3. They offer Webmail access but you are free to ignore it
> as I do.
>
I had looked at them.
> Richard Owlett writes:
>> As I stated in the paragraph you deleted:
>
>>> All I've found so far require a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone.
>>> Due to vision problems, I don't have a smartphone.
>
>> I use SeaMonkey as email client. I specified POP# to explicitly ignore
>> webmail.
>
> pobox.com requires neither a Windows OS and/or a mobile phone and
> supports pop3. They offer Webmail access but you are free to ignore it
> as I do.
>
On https://www.pobox.com/pricing I was uncomfortable with:
1. emphasis on creating a personal domain
- no idea of unintended consequences/implications
2. no definition of "Forwarding"
songbird
Apr 20, 2023, 8:52:34 AM4/20/23
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your info (possibly even scanning e-mails for keywords)
to spammers.
songbird
John Hasler
Apr 20, 2023, 9:08:06 AM4/20/23
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Richard Owlett writes:
> I had looked at [pobox.com].
not get it from them (my registrar is Gandi).
> - no idea of unintended consequences/implications
Of what?
> 2. no definition of "Forwarding"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_forwarding
In this case they mean arranging for mail sent to your personal domain
(if any) to go to your mailbox at pobox.com from which you would fetch
it using Seamonkey just as you do now. They also offer more complex
services which you can ignore. You can use pobox.com exactly as you use
cloud85.net.
[1] If you have your own domain you can change email providers without
needing to notify every correspondent of your new email address.
> I had looked at [pobox.com].
> On https://www.pobox.com/pricing I was uncomfortable with:
> 1. emphasis on creating a personal domain
You are not required to have your own domain[1] and if you do you need
> 1. emphasis on creating a personal domain
not get it from them (my registrar is Gandi).
> - no idea of unintended consequences/implications
> 2. no definition of "Forwarding"
In this case they mean arranging for mail sent to your personal domain
(if any) to go to your mailbox at pobox.com from which you would fetch
it using Seamonkey just as you do now. They also offer more complex
services which you can ignore. You can use pobox.com exactly as you use
cloud85.net.
[1] If you have your own domain you can change email providers without
needing to notify every correspondent of your new email address.
John Hasler
Apr 20, 2023, 11:08:05 AM4/20/23
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songbird writes:
> my biggest issue is that many of them seem to sell your info (possibly
> even scanning e-mails for keywords) to spammers.
It should be obvious that free email services such as Gmail must do
> my biggest issue is that many of them seem to sell your info (possibly
> even scanning e-mails for keywords) to spammers.
*something* to generate revenue.
bad sector
Apr 25, 2023, 9:01:23 PM4/25/23
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costs but presumably you could get a very serious domain server set up
and maintained for $100-$200 per year. Depending on the hosting service
that MAY include unlimited email accounts and forwarders on your own
bundled mail server (I'd suggest with a dedicated IP address though).
With such a setup you have a place for your own web site as well (the
primary idea actually) but just the email ease is not insignificant. I
went that route after my regular ISP started charging $3/month for every
additional email address I wanted :-)
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