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winemaker
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Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?

#11 Post by winemaker »

if i pay i might as well stick with protonmail. $ is very tight and free is good for email for me.

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#12 Post by towwire »

winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:36 am if i pay i might as well stick with protonmail. $ is very tight and free is good for email for me.
Check out GMX.com.
And I think zoho still has a forevery free account but you have to use your browser, no pop or imap.
It is easier to fight for one's principles then to live up to them.

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#13 Post by winemaker »

read y posts - i do not want webmail and also one of the 2 are charge even tthough they say free. spemt last evening searching 100 links. there is one says free and it is corporate at 228 or more a month or every 3 months.

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#14 Post by stevedude »

Just want to "second" the suggestion for GMX Mail. I've been using that for years. I'm biased, but I love their web interface and their Android/iOS app is better IMHO than Outlook/Gmail/Yahoo, etc. You get a 50 MB attachment limit, spam filtering, unified mail (called Mail Collector) to import other accounts

They also provide free 2 GB of online storage (Up to 65 GB for paid service).

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#15 Post by winemaker »

not sure if you guys can read. i do not want webmail but run it in thunderbird as imap. i guess i got my answers. thanks,

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#16 Post by Buck Fankers »

winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:29 pm not sure if you guys can read. i do not want webmail but run it in thunderbird as imap. i guess i got my answers. thanks,
Maybe someone else needs to check on reading ability :wink:

gmx.com allows IMAP. I have over 5 accounts with GMX and use them with Claws email client. (Works with Thunberbird also) Your email would be my.name@gmx.com

Same with their sisters mail.com so your email would be: my.name@mail.com

You do have to first log in through web browser and enable IMAP/POP somewhere in the settings

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#17 Post by winemaker »

sorry all that news and ads or whatever they have on that site was a turn off. not my cup of tea. get to the point and not show me garbage stuff unrelated to my email i am trying to get. just me. thanks though.

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#18 Post by Buck Fankers »

winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:18 pm sorry all that news and ads or whatever they have on that site was a turn off. not my cup of tea. get to the point and not show me garbage stuff unrelated to my email i am trying to get. just me. thanks though.
While I'm happy user of gmx.com and mail.com, since this may be the same company, I was looking for some plan 'B' and 'C', just in case. I checked links posted in this thread and I found some interesting free email providers that support IMAP & POP.

Beside already mentioned disroot.org that is currently not accepting new members, there were few other interesting providers, such as
or:
https://riseup.net/en/email
1 GB of storage space for e-mail

Thunderbird setup
https://riseup.net/en/email/clients/thunderbird

Claws setup
https://riseup.net/en/email/clients/claws

Suppose your email address was joehill@riseup.net:
• Incoming mail server: • IMAP: mail.riseup.net port 993 (TLS) or port 143 (STARTTLS).
• POP: mail.riseup.net port 995 (TLS) or port 110 (STARTTLS).

• Outgoing mail server: • SMTP: mail.riseup.net, port 465 (TLS) or port 587 (STARTTLS).

• Login or user name: joehill
• Use secure connection: yes (TLS or STARTTLS)

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#19 Post by winemaker »

the 2nd one sounds interesting. thanks buck.

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#20 Post by Libernux »

I'm using gmx.com for over 10 years. It supports IMAP. I also appreciate their spam filters.
I use Claws mail but it works also with thunderbird.

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