Topic: Any ideas on a good email server/account?

[VANGUARD]

To make a long story short; I don't trust or even like Gmail. Not fond of Yahoo, MSN/hotmail or even AOL.

I'm wanting to find an email account/server (pop/smtp server) that is free.

Any ideas?

[Scyphi]

I think those are your only options...

I know Techpro investigated this some not too terribly long ago, he might be able to provide better input.

[VANGUARD]

I was afraid of that. most are through your internet providers, which may not be bad; but if you move and they don't service that area; there goes the account.
The free ones are the few I don't like.

[-<WillyP>-]

I have had an account at fastmail.fm for years and have had no complaints. The recently got bought by Opera. Not much change that I could see.

[Matthew]

I don't see any problem with Gmail, tbh, and I've never had to look for any others. I use the one provided by my ISp, and a private email server hosted by Wormaus. Maybe you could ask him?

[Scyphi]

Techpro and I also use Gmail, and the only real issue I can recall us having with it is that every now and then it decides it doesn't like my account for a day and refuse to deliver mail, but it always has fixed itself by the next day, so I at least have learned to live with it, and this seems to be more of an unusual exception in comparison to other Gmail accounts.

[Foil]

I've never had any major issues with my Gmail account, and I'm finding that their spam filter is better than any of the others out there.

[VANGUARD]

gmail, besides less privacy; I hate their setup. too much there. all of these labels, and it's no simple "from" and "to", it's D Meyers, me, (2) or something.

It's obnoxious. I am just going to try Ymail (yahoo). I appreciate everyone's help.

[Matthew]

gmail, besides less privacy; I hate their setup. too much there. all of these labels, and it's no simple "from" and "to", it's D Meyers, me, (2) or something.

It's obnoxious. I am just going to try Ymail (yahoo). I appreciate everyone's help.

Any real email program will have those labels, they are legitimate and useful features of email. Not all emails are between 2 people. You don't have to use them if you don't want them.