Alternative Email Providers Not the myopic or the one that ogles

**Lionelgee** · 8th February 2024, 04:50 PM

Hello All,

Just wondering what other email providers people on this forum use that does not include either the myopic or the one that ogles? Yes, I shut my computer down and went out for a couple of hours. Started the email provider up and got the message that I cannot attach a file to a new email. Try again later. The same system where I have not been able to use the mouse buttons to copy, cut or paste and have to use Ctrl A, Ctrl C, or Ctrl X or Ctrl V because of a compatibility issue.

Email providers that do not take minutes letting some algorithm trace its way through the whole email system before it finally opens your messages. An email provider that does not crap itself if you have the sheer audacity to use an Adblocker from another source. To eliminate this, the parent email provider starts adding conflicts within the email system. Ones that magically disappear when you buy the email provider's own version of what another company provides as free adblocking software.

I am sick of not being able to exercise my rights as a consumer and different companies practising what boils down to anti-competitive behaviour by creating compatibility bugs that they make no attempt to fix. Mostly because they have deliberately created these compatibility bugs themselves.

To cite the late Peter Finch in his role in The Network - I’m As Mad As Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take This Anymore! Accessed 8th of February 2024 from, I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from Network (1976) - YouTube

Sod it, I will even pay for a decent email provider if they do not practice the dirty deeds mentioned above. So what and who provide the alternative email services.

Now, go to the window and yell ....

Kind regards
Lionel

**disco gazza** · 8th February 2024, 06:50 PM

Hi Lionel,
I've been using Thunderbird(Mozilla) for years now and it I find that its very good. Updates pretty regularly too.
I have other well known email providers, but there for the rubbish you get from them and not important stuff.

cheers
DG

**Tombie** · 8th February 2024, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by disco gazza

Hi Lionel,
I've been using Thunderbird(Mozilla) for years now and it I find that its very good. Updates pretty regularly too.
I have other well known email providers, but there for the rubbish you get from them and not important stuff.

cheers
DG

Thunderbird is a mail reader, not a mail server.

He will still need a server.

Lionel, why not just purchased your own domain. (Tax claim for work) and run your own?

**disco gazza** · 9th February 2024, 04:49 AM

Sorry Lionel, I misread the question you asked.

DG

**WhiteD3** · 9th February 2024, 05:33 AM

I've been using my MS account as a secondary email for years with no problem. "live.com.au" but I think new accounts are outlook.com

**simonmelb** · 9th February 2024, 06:01 AM

You could try one of the free or subscription very secure ones like Tutanota or Protonmail?:

Top 5 Alternatives to Tutanota (February 2024) - SaaSworthy.com

Im ok with Gmail as it’s spam filtering is so good.

Cheers
Simon

**AK83** · 9th February 2024, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Tombie

Thunderbird is a mail reader, not a mail server.

He will still need a server.

....

This was my initial reaction too.
Lionel claims email provider, that is, in relation to an email address ... but then Lionel has another thread complaining about Outlook, which is an email client.

I have a suspicion Lionel has confused his terminology, and may in fact be looking at a clent program(ie. like Thunderbird, or whatever) as an alternative to Outlook.

**BradC** · 9th February 2024, 01:07 PM

I've run ours locally for years, but I've heard from a number of different directions that fastmail.com is pretty good for outsourced E-mail.

As for clients, I've used Mozilla/Thunderbird for the last 20 or more years (Eudora on Win95 before that). We have one associate who insists on Outlook, and it is by far the most problematic client we run.

**Lionelgee** · 9th February 2024, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by AK83

This was my initial reaction too.
Lionel claims email provider, that is, in relation to an email address ... but then Lionel has another thread complaining about Outlook, which is an email client.

I have a suspicion Lionel has confused his terminology, and may in fact be looking at a clent program(ie. like Thunderbird, or whatever) as an alternative to Outlook.

Hello AK83 and Tombie,
Lionel just wants something that [insert rude words here] works!!!! Also, something that is reliable and accepts really advanced functions like being able to copy, cut and paste within an email document using a mouse. Plus, another really advanced feature - being able to attach a document to an email.

Now, wait for it ... being able to press 'Send' and the email gets sent on its way through the ether and magically arrives at someone else's, or perhaps even my own email address.

Also, remember Lionel identifies as a semi-luddite. I am not offay with the correct forms of computer parlance. If there was some way that I could isolate doubtlook within my computer and not damage any other component or function within said computer, I would home-in on the spot where doubtlook lives and line up the biggest hammer I own. Then I would proceed to vent my frustrations upon that particular spot. Did I mention something about 'Luddite' before?

Kind regards
Lionel

**TonyC** · 9th February 2024, 05:46 PM

I've used Fastmail for years, with no complaints.

I use the Fastmail app on my tablet and phone, and the web interface works well if I need it anywhere else.

That said I would not be considered a power user of anything IT related.

Tony

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