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Have been with one ISP for 11 years.
Today I learn that the ISP is quitting email. It recommends Gmail and Outlook Mail. No sale on either of those. Gmail famous for censorship, etc.
I liked having one source for internet access and email. My internet access is ethernet; there is no other ethernet ISP here, so no options wave their hands…
What to do?
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Clyde,
Easy solution. Go with Fastmail. Either use it directly or use it in conjunction with your own domain. It's completely independent of your ISP. Been using Fastmail for a _very_ long time. Think well over 10 years. It's a fantastic email provider and well worth the cost of admission. I use it in conjunction with my own domains.
I haven't used ISP provided email since the days of dial-up. BAck in those days, I switched providers surprisingly often as new and better providers appeared and/or the current one became crappy. One of the benefits of an independent email provider is that upon switching ISPS, my email address and stored email never changed. I could jump from ISP to ISP and never have to worry about giving people a new email address.
Robert
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Best not to use your ISP.
Use Apple iCloud.com or ProtonMail
https://protonmail.com/
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Time machine, as in Jules Verne or BTTF, not Time Machine, as in Apple's; go back to mid-1990's...
Feel free to pick your own date and time.
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Another vote for ProtonMail
https://protonmail.com/
Their free service has worked fine for me for years and it's secure!
(& unlike google, yahoo, et all; they do not SPY on you)
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I liked having one source for internet access and email.
Why would you want that? it is exactly the opposite of what you should do.
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I'd second getting your own domain and an email host, using your broadband ISP for email just ties you to them, making decisions about switching harder.
I've had my own domain/email address since 1999, and had three ISP for home internet access during that time in two different homes, never had to change it.
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Robert M wrote:
Clyde,
Easy solution. Go with Fastmail. Either use it directly or use it in conjunction with your own domain. It's completely independent of your ISP. Been using Fastmail for a _very_ long time. Think well over 10 years. It's a fantastic email provider and well worth the cost of admission. I use it in conjunction with my own domains.
I haven't used ISP provided email since the days of dial-up. BAck in those days, I switched providers surprisingly often as new and better providers appeared and/or the current one became crappy. One of the benefits of an independent email provider is that upon switching ISPS, my email address and stored email never changed. I could jump from ISP to ISP and never have to worry about giving people a new email address.
Robert
Another vote for Fastmail. I’ve been a very happy customer for 17 years. I started using their service for the same reason as Robert.
