Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 23:21:19 +0100 From: Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> To: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: good free email service? Message-ID: <20181109222119.GB12347@tau1.ceti.pl> In-Reply-To: <58d8ccb4-bbe1-d845-ae59-81287c402187@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <58d8ccb4-bbe1-d845-ae59-81287c402187@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:18:58AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Dear All, > > I know it is an oxymoron: good free ... service ;-) > > Still, can someone recommend good free email service? I cannot. But I would start by looking for (paid) shell account - I think they usually come with email option (i.e. POP3, IMAP and SMTP). I have had a look and panix.com has a webpage. Note, I am not associated, not even a client, I have no idea if they suck or not - albeit I have hard time imagining how I could suck while giving shell accounts, because it seems rather easy (a classic UNIX service, eh?). Going after shell has a benefit - at least there is a chance you will be hosted on "something normal" or resembling UNIX to some extent. Free is not an option for me, because I am subscribed to too many mailing lists and I like it when the emails keep coming. For one or five mails a day, free might do the job. And they send spam to their free clients, because the cost of "free" account has to be paid somehow. With client-paid account, there is usually spamassassin or something and it might even catch some trash. Some other folks mention privacy. I would totally forget about anybody who tries to sell me this, for free or not (as they say, if one tells it to somebody, it is not a secret anymore and yet private email is supposed to keep it secret, hehehe - also, consider king Midas and his donkey ears). [...] > I definitely will not go with google, Microsoft, Apple. I don't have > same strong feeling about yahoo as I have bout above, but... I understand there are still some smaller players who would gladly solve your problem. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **
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