Which email provider would you recommend ?

[pubrunner]

Hi All,

Back in 1999, I started an email account with Yahoo. For many years, there were no problems . . . until the company decided to alter the way in which messages were received - it would put them into 'clusters', rather than sort them as individual messages. I decided to persevere - until yesterday.

Yesterday morning, I logged into my Yahoo email account and found that almost all my emails in the 'Inbox' had vanished - I found them in the 'Trash' folder. I then changed my email password and moved all the emails back to the 'Inbox'. Following this, I decided to totally wipe and format the hard drive on my PC and do a fresh installation of Windows 7 (and Office, anti-malware and antivirus software etc). I then went back onto my Yahoo account and for good measure, I changed the password again; I checked all my emails were in the 'Inbox' and all seemed fine.

Last night, I went out for a game of pool and when I returned at midnight, I went to see if I had any new emails - I found my 'Inbox' was empty and all emails were back in the 'Trash' folder - how might this have happened ?

It was at this point, that I decided to part company with Yahoo - I deleted all emails and closed the account.

My query is this - which email provider might you recommend ? (I don't mind paying for a good, secure email service).

At the moment, I'm considering ProtonMail and Kolab Now - both based in Switzerland and also Runbox (Norway); does anyone have any experience of these companies, or are you able to recommend another email provider ?

Thank you for your suggestions.

 

[vickster]

I got an email saying orange email (and thus my fsmail account which I've had for donkey's years) is being terminated at the end of May. I have a lot of important stuff in there which I need to keep (notably ongoing PI claim) and there appears to be no way of backing up/saving said emails (other than manually forwarding each of all 300+ to another account)

NOT impressed

They are saying to use Gmail (I do have an account if I can recall all the details)

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If you want web-based, then I'd suggest mail.com

I've used them for a couple of years and they've been better than Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.

I used to use mail.com until they arbitrarily froze then deleted my account, along with a few hundred thousand other people's - this was about ten years ago. They apologised, saying it had been mistakenly added in with "inactive" accounts but they couldn't restore it. Quite a shock seeing all the docs you needed disappear at a stroke and then the pita of having to change my details on everything I'd subscribed to.

 

[HorTs]

I have only used Gmail for years and years. They do try to encourage you to use variuos new ways of organising your inbox but it's always clear to opt in or opt out. Never had an issue with them.

 

[vickster]

I used to use mail.com until they arbitrarily froze then deleted my account, along with a few hundred thousand other people's - this was about ten years ago. They apologised, saying it had been mistakenly added in with "inactive" accounts but they couldn't restore it. Quite a shock seeing all the docs you needed disappear at a stroke and then the pita of having to change my details on everything I'd subscribed to.

Yes that will be the PITA for me too and informing everyone of the change...although I can lose a lot of spam that way!

 

[pubrunner]

If you want web-based, then I'd suggest mail.com

I've used them for a couple of years and they've been better than Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.

Does mail.com get many ads ?

 

[ufkacbln]

I got an email saying orange email (and thus my fsmail account which I've had for donkey's years) is being terminated at the end of May. I have a lot of important stuff in there which I need to keep (notably ongoing PI claim) and there appears to be no way of backing up/saving said emails (other than manually forwarding each of all 300+ to another account)

NOT impressed

They are saying to use Gmail (I do have an account if I can recall all the details)

There is a "cheat"


Gmail (and I suspect others) allow you to import emails from other accounts to Gmail. I am simply using Gmail as it is the one I am familiar with

Add your orange account to the Gmail account

Select to receive all old emails

Next time you check mails, all your Orange ones will appear in your Google account

Then create a folder and move them in to keep them separate

 

[vickster]

Yes, thanks, I've just found a way of importing inbox but it can take 2 days!!!! The process has started

How do I add my Orange account to Gmail? I've just changed to another account as recovery

 

[pubrunner]

If you want web-based, . . .

I've no preference for web-based or desktop-based email, other than I'd like something with a pleasant interface, good spam filtering and which is 'secure' - though I recognise, that no provider is 100% secure.

 

[cisamcgu]

I bought a domain for about £3 a year, so now I use andrew@<mydomain>.co.uk - seems pretty simple, at least to me, but I don't have many emails

 

[Crackle]

The trend these days is for online mail, which is great for access but a bit shoot for long term storage. I have always used a POP email address as my main email, normally one from my ISP, though again, not all offer it now. POP delivers your mail locally which has the advantage of you being in charge of storing it and archiving it but the disadvantage of it only being on one device. I use online mail, such as gmail for throwaway stuff, shopping, newsletters and other unimportant crap. I configure my pop mail to remain on the server for a few days, so that I can use a third party android client to retrieve it away from my home PC. If I receive anything I need to access remotely i.e. a hotel booking or similiar, I simply transfer it to my gmail.

So my setup is: ISP provided POP mail sitting on a client on my PC, Thunderbird, and online mail, Gmail, which I can also configure Thunderbird to handle on my PC. On my phone I have access to gmail and use bluemail to pull down my ISP mail. On my PC, Thunderbird is backed up to my SAN and also online via MOZY.

Have you got all that Pubby or should I start again?

 

[fixedfixer]

I use gmail. can set it up on a mobile phone or just access via the web. When tiscali started messing about I created a link by adding an account (i.e. the tiscali account) to the gmail. It then copied everything across successfully as per the Cunobelin post. - I certainly didn't have to move hundred of emails individually.

There is a "cheat"


Gmail (and I suspect others) allow you to import emails from other accounts to Gmail. I am simply using Gmail as it is the one I am familiar with

Add your orange account to the Gmail account

Select to receive all old emails

Next time you check mails, all your Orange ones will appear in your Google account

Then create a folder and move them in to keep them separate

 

[Inertia]

I've no preference for web-based or desktop-based email, other than I'd like something with a pleasant interface, good spam filtering and which is 'secure' - though I recognise, that no provider is 100% secure.

I cant vouch for other services but gmails spam filtering is solid, I very rarely get any.

 

[ufkacbln]

Yes, thanks, I've just found a way of importing inbox but it can take 2 days!!!! The process has started

How do I add my Orange account to Gmail? I've just changed to another account as recovery

YERTIZ

 

[vickster]

YERTIZ

Seems to be sorted thanks. Just need to work out how to set up sub folders in gmail.? Weekend job