On Wednesday 03 April 2024 18:15:54 Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:

Dear TDE list,

Sorry, this may be off topic. I am looking for an email provider that is not Google, Yahoo or Apple. Recently, these providers have tightened the ability to forward e-mail as detailed in this article by UW:

https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/e mailinf/email-forwarding/?mkt_tok=MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGSH2koSlJqfiVulEEx-TcH1u 91w0M7lcuK7GszHvc4XJSw3ija-PLDvk_RyUJcHaXxkyTTCCATxXvyemC4JZEGXOluE8hZziKJTz VTJyxR_WsLwN4C

In particular, I am looking for the following:

1. Ability to access through IMAP

2. Ability to set up automatic forwarding while leaving one copy of a

message in the INBOX

3. Possibly free or low cost with enough storage > 1 GB and ability to

have attachments >= 25 MB.

I have been looking at AOL and GMX. AOL is now owned by Yahoo, so it may have the same issues. GMX is attractive especially since it allows attachments up 250 GB. However, I wonder whether e-mails sent through GMX have to go all the way to Germany and then back to the US (making the process slow)? Or does GMX mail have servers all over the world including the US? Any other recommendations?

Also, I would like to use IMAP using Alpine and I read that "Alpine also assumes that the Inbox is located at /var/spool/mail/user_name on the email SMTP server":

https://opensource.com/article/21/5/alpine-linux-email

I am curious whether today's e-mail providers store their e-mails in a /var/spool/mail/ folder.

Thanks!

  Gianluca

Try Zoho, that is, zoho.com.

So far, they've been pretty good to me, as far as free emails go. There were a few bumps getting started, but their support staff was helpful, and I haven't had any issues in five years or more.

Now, it may be that they are changing, too. I haven't kept up with all the latest news. Usually I get my emails through Kmail, so I don't know about changes online, to their website or policies. When last I logged in by a webpage, it seemed that some of their domains were no longer available, but I didn't spend much time investigating.

I believe that Zoho has all those features you mention. If I remember correctly, they are based in India.

Bill

On 4/3/24 6:15 PM, Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:

GMX is attractive especially since it allows attachments up 250 GB.

I would definitely not recommend GMX. I had a bad experience with them a year or so ago. I switched a customer to GMX, and everything looked really good until she tried to send change-of-address emails. She didn't get through very many at all, and GMX locked the account and stopped responding to emails. I can only guess it was because they thought it looked like spammer activity, but you'd think they know people have to send change-of-address emails to their contacts. I realize other email providers might do the same thing, but GMX is the one that did it to me, so I tell people whenever I can.