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30 Jun 2016, 07:25 AM | #1 |
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Low-Security Email Providers?
(Feel free to skip the first paragraph to get to the actual question.)
I've recently had access to my Yahoo email accounts (some of which date back to the first year Yahoo provided email) limited or stopped entirely because I refuse to change my passwords to meet Yahoo's new "security" standards. I am not a congressman or Secretary of State, or Mark Zuckerberg, I have no banking or credit card info connected in any way to these email accounts. No one is trying to hack into my account. The only way someone would (or would want to) access my email is if they happened to be walking by my desk and saw my password written out on a sticky note because I'm expected, but unable, to remember 20 different 10+ character passwords for different sites, all containing various configurations of numbers, uppercase letters and symbols. The idea that such things promote security is thoughtless and asinine, and I won't be a part of it. I apparently don't share much of the world's paranoia over such stupid things. Then again, I'm not stupid enough to post all my personal info to any person or website that asks for it. I can make my own choices regarding online privacy, and I neither need nor want Yahoo or any other corporation to hold my hand and protect me from my own foolishness. So, can anyone point me in the direction of a free web email provider that allows a password of 6 characters, and will not ask for my real name, secondary email address, or phone information? I will go without an email account before I provide any of this information. The only one I've found was in Slovakian, and therefore unusable to me. I don't need (or want) a calendar, encryption, POP...etc. I only need something by which I can send and receive text based messages, and an occasional attachment of 2MB or less. That's all. Why do these companies have to ruin everything? |
30 Jun 2016, 03:03 PM | #2 |
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Protonmail fits the bill. All that is required is a mailbox name and two passwords (identical 6-character passwords are accepted), and there's a free plan.
https://mail.protonmail.com/create/n...2¤cy=EUR |
30 Jun 2016, 04:10 PM | #3 |
The "e" in e-mail
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30 Jun 2016, 09:47 PM | #4 | |
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3 Jul 2016, 01:07 AM | #5 |
The "e" in e-mail
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Disgusted,
Lastpass and 1Password are 2 other very good password managers. Many people are using those applications nowadays instead of writing their passwords down, which is not a good practice. |
14 Jul 2016, 06:24 PM | #6 | |
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15 Jul 2016, 08:00 PM | #7 |
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There's also GMX, mail.com, overmail.de & lumail.lu, which don't require phone numbers or super-complex passwords.
https://www.gmx.com/ https://www.mail.com/int/ http://www.overmail.de/index.php?action=signup https://lumail.lu/ Last edited by Zach : 15 Jul 2016 at 08:07 PM. |
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18 Jul 2016, 07:39 PM | #10 | |
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