Stable Email Provider?

[anonymous-user]

I've had a hotmail email address for something like 20 years (if not longer). I've used it for pretty much everything in that time, but it's rapidly becoming untenable. Tons of junk/spam turning up in my inbox, and I'm finding some mails I actually need in the junk folder. It's got significantly worse since my last trip to the US (assuming that the hotel sells data, s).

Anyway, I do have an icloud address but I might not always stick within the apple 'multiverse' so I need to try and figure out a long term solution.

Is there a suitable provider or am I best just buying a domain name and creating my own email address?

I am simpleton, so any guidance appreciated.

[bitchstewie]

Gmail.

Honestly for me it's been flawless for a couple of decades.

[miniman]

Gmail, with or without your own domain.

[Fore Left]

If you want your own domain yet again I recommend Mythic Beasts. Think I pay £3 a month for email only and its been rock solid since I moved to them 2 years ago.

You can have a catch all mailbox so can use a unique email address for each company you deal with. I.e. [e-mail].

ETA; just checked. Its actually £2 a month.

Edited by Fore Left on Tuesday 10th December 19:10

[miniman]

An interesting hidden feature of Gmail is that you can add “+anything” in your email address and it will deliver to you.

So for example I could use [e-mail] for PH and [e-mail] for eBay etc.

That way if you start getting spammed you can see which place they got your email from.

[the-norseman]

Gmail

[Mr-B]

miniman said:

An interesting hidden feature of Gmail is that you can add “+anything” in your email address and it will deliver to you.

So for example I could use [e-mail] for PH and [e-mail] for eBay etc.

That way if you start getting spammed you can see which place they got your email from.

Didn't know that, excellent info

[Craikeybaby]

More votes for either Google mail or iCloud.

[mikef]

If you’re OK with Google’s business model…

They offer great software and use it to suck up and analyse all the data you store on their servers - emails, spreadsheets, documents, videos, files, searches - to monetise what they can learn about you. For now, that’s by targeting advertising

[abzmike]

I think you can migrate your Hotmail to Outlook.com so still pick up those messages you might want. Outlook is fine for me, always found Gmail a bit awkward.

[miniman]

mikef said:

If you’re OK with Google’s business model…

They offer great software and use it to suck up and analyse all the data you store on their servers - emails, spreadsheets, documents, videos, files, searches - to monetise what they can learn about you. For now, that’s by targeting advertising

[wyson]

The data people at my firm recommended Proton mail as a gmail alternative because it is much more private and doesn’t use your data for profit.

Also worth using burner accounts. I use the built in burner email function in my duckduckgo web browser to sign up for random trials / competitions etc, which forwards emails onto my real email address. If any of them generates too much spam, it gets burned, protecting my real email address.

Edited by wyson on Wednesday 11th December 06:26

[the-norseman]

I use Proton and Gmail. Both work well not had any issues.

[Hol]

If you purchase a domain name similar to your surname, you can set up multiple @ email addresses for you and your family.

You can then port those emails into an outlook app on a phone, tablet or PC.

Edited by Hol on Wednesday 11th December 06:44

[stemll]

mikef said:

If you’re OK with Google’s business model…

They offer great software and use it to suck up and analyse all the data you store on their servers - emails, spreadsheets, documents, videos, files, searches - to monetise what they can learn about you. For now, that’s by targeting advertising

They can target all they want, none of it get's through the Pi-Hole. No different from any other free service, someone's paying for it even if you aren't and, invariably, that someone is advertisers.

[mikef]

stemll said:

mikef said:

If you’re OK with Google’s business model…

They offer great software and use it to suck up and analyse all the data you store on their servers - emails, spreadsheets, documents, videos, files, searches - to monetise what they can learn about you. For now, that’s by targeting advertising

They can target all they want, none of it get's through the Pi-Hole. No different from any other free service, someone's paying for it even if you aren't and, invariably, that someone is advertisers.

Although it’s moved on from targeting ads to using all they learn from their multiple sources, including what you search for, read, store in their cloud and apps, and watch, to train their ML models. Your pi-hole can’t prevent that

[stemll]

mikef said:

stemll said:

mikef said:

If you’re OK with Google’s business model…

They offer great software and use it to suck up and analyse all the data you store on their servers - emails, spreadsheets, documents, videos, files, searches - to monetise what they can learn about you. For now, that’s by targeting advertising

They can target all they want, none of it get's through the Pi-Hole. No different from any other free service, someone's paying for it even if you aren't and, invariably, that someone is advertisers.

Although it’s moved on from targeting ads to using all they learn from their multiple sources, including what you search for, read, store in their cloud and apps, and watch, to train their ML models. Your pi-hole can’t prevent that

I have a catering quality roll of tin foil for that

[bitchstewie]

It's simple.

You trade a bit of privacy for a lot of "it just works" with Gmail.

If you're not happy with that then sure do the whole roll your own thing.

But accept that you aren't going to be doing it as well.

[Craikeybaby]

Or you buy a domain and pay monthly to use Googlemail.

[BlueMR2]

Fore Left said:

If you want your own domain yet again I recommend Mythic Beasts. Think I pay £3 a month for email only and its been rock solid since I moved to them 2 years ago.

You can have a catch all mailbox so can use a unique email address for each company you deal with. I.e. [e-mail].

ETA; just checked. Its actually £2 a month.

This is the way.