Why are so many provider getting out of email? Verizon being the biggie, but also operamail/fastmail is doing away with free email this month.
An email account I’ve had for 7 or 8 years is going away at the end of this month…well the free email is going away; they’re making it a paid model only.
Like most people, I’ve have multiple email accounts, personal, professional, junk (store savings, online sales, etc). The junk mail one is going away. I prefer to keep them separate, meaning I don’t aggregate them into one place to read them all. This also means I don’t want Gmail or Hotmail/outlook as you can’t be signed into two different email addresses from the same provider on the same browser.
So where else should I sign up for a new, free email account? I kind of remember that Yahoo gets a shit ton of spam in it; is that still true? Given I only check it once a week or so, I don’t want to be overrun with so much spam that I miss the ‘real’ junk.
Otherwise, install your own email server. HmailServer is free and runs on Windows.
Super easy. This vid leads you through each step.
I’d suggest using an old PC. Install Windows fresh and use it just for email. You can create multiple accounts for personal use and spam. Let it run 24/7.
Get an email client to read your email (like Thunderbird) instead of using a browser. You can set up a separate folder for each email account. You could have multiple email accounts from Gmail or Hotmail.
I have like 5 accounts through Gmail and check them all through one Gmail account. When I go to reply, it automatically replies from the one that was the recipient. When I compose new, I just choose the account I want to send as. I can quickly tell when email comes in which account it’s for, as Gmail labels them.
Same as what **PastTense **is saying to do with a local client, really. That’s also a good work-around but some people don’t like clients anymore.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I have three Gmail accounts and keep them all open, on the same browser, all day. They’re just different tabs on my desktop. One is personal, one is work, one is family.
You gave a reason why you didn’t want gmail and that reason has been incorrect.
If you don’t want a gmail account just because, that’s fine but it’s better to explicitly say that or you’ll keep getting post like this one saying you are incorrect.
I have al GMail, a Yahoo, a Hotmail, and a mail.ru account. I have a bookmark to each one, it’s easy to hop from one to another., 30 seconds to view my inbox in all four. One for people I know, one for trusted strangers, one for untrusted, one for stealth.
Ive had no problem with using mail.ru for signups. Even for Skype. It’s a generally reliable service, and can be portaled in English.
I’m not extolling its virtues, I only listed it as one of the four reliable online email systems I use. For some, it may also have the advantage of not immediately and automatically turning over everything I do to the NSA. Although the NSA probably has me redflagged simply for using it.
It’s not mail.ru being blocked per se, no matter how one loves our Slavic comrades ***.ru **is verboten generally.
It’s to do with history rather than anything in Vladland now: at the beginning of the century RU was sending out a lot of spam sign-ups, coincidentally as they were revolutionising internet porn. THey did great things, great things…
Anyone remember MET.COM ?
