what email service do you use?

**andrewjs18** · 11-09-2021, 05:55 AM

(11-09-2021, 01:57 AM)John Rose Wrote:
(10-14-2021, 01:11 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote: I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data. currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...
Who is your ISP?

verizon fios

John Rose · 11-14-2021, 05:28 AM

(11-09-2021, 05:55 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote:
(11-09-2021, 01:57 AM)John Rose Wrote:
(10-14-2021, 01:11 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote: I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data. currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...
Who is your ISP?

verizon fios

Oh.
According to https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/email it looks like there is no longer support for an email service by verizon, only from third parties.
That bites.
My ISP (Bell-Aliant) provides email service for up to five addresses on the same account. I would have thought that sort of thing was standard in any internet service package.

**andrewjs18** · 11-14-2021, 05:39 AM

(11-14-2021, 05:28 AM)John Rose Wrote:
(11-09-2021, 05:55 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote:
(11-09-2021, 01:57 AM)John Rose Wrote: Who is your ISP?

verizon fios
Oh.
According to https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/email it looks like there is no longer support for an email service by verizon, only from third parties.
That bites.
My ISP (Bell-Aliant) provides email service for up to five addresses on the same account. I would have thought that sort of thing was standard in any internet service package.

I never use my ISP email service anyways - what happens when you switch providers...you lose access to your email address.

anyways, I ended up signing up for mail fence and then buying the pro version of fairemail email app for android.

John Rose · 12-02-2021, 10:02 AM

(11-14-2021, 05:39 AM)andrewjs18 Wrote: I never use my ISP email service anyways - what happens when you switch providers...you lose access to your email address.

Ah. There is that.

RayClem · 12-02-2021, 05:41 PM

My primary email is a usa.net address. The server is netaddress.com and the service is owned by SilverSky. SilverSky does a decent job of filtering spam, but there is so much of it these days, I still get some in my mail folder and I probably get 100 spam emails a day in my spam folder.

The cost of $40 per year for the service including 1 GB of storage.

I do have Microsoft, Gmail, and AOL accounts, but my critical stuff is all @usa.net