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22 Feb 2024, 04:53 AM | #1 |
The "e" in e-mail
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The reliable mail services
What I have long used and I felt they are reliable.
1. gmail 2. fastmail/pobox 3. web.de/gmx.net 4. Mail.de 5. Yahoo (though many ADs) 6. Proton (though slow access) Not so reliable: 1. iCloud - silent filtering 2. Outlook - the same issue as iCloud 3. T-online - whitelist for incoming messages 4. Yandex - almost every message was identified as spam What’s your experience on using different mail? |
22 Feb 2024, 06:24 AM | #2 |
Master of the @
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My lists:
Reliable: Gmail, Purelymail, Outlook.com (though the spam filtering is unreliable), DuckDuckGo (email aliases and forwarding), iCloud, Onmail, Vivaldi Unreliable: Fastmail and POBox.com, in both cases I hit problems getting a domain hooked up knocking me out of email at those domains for more than a week, and with poor and slow customer service response. They also seem to have more temporary outages than most. Skiff-now gone, but some minor glitches that made me wonder what other glitches lurked. MXRoute-worst cs in the business Not sure: Many I have tried briefly, but not long enough to determine whether or not they were reliable |
22 Feb 2024, 07:50 AM | #3 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Sep 2005
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22 Feb 2024, 09:02 AM | #4 |
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I think yours is the nicest Jeff and I am grateful for it
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22 Feb 2024, 10:12 AM | #5 | |
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22 Feb 2024, 04:37 PM | #6 | |
The "e" in e-mail
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Location: Holon, Israel.
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22 Feb 2024, 08:19 PM | #8 | |
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22 Feb 2024, 09:11 PM | #9 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Certainly mail to the inbox (I filter most of my incoming mail away from the inbox anyway). But spam filtering should be overridable by filtering rules (and not just for a list of known senders). Fastmail's way of filtering according to your rules, and clearly marking suspected phishing wherever it ended up is better than burying it in a "Junk box". And in many cases when email I sent ends up in the recipient Junk folder, where the recipient never sees it, it would have been better for me if it would have been rejected and I would reliever a non-delivery message immediately.
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22 Feb 2024, 09:18 PM | #10 | |
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23 Feb 2024, 07:42 AM | #11 |
The "e" in e-mail
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26 Feb 2024, 09:49 PM | #12 | |
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27 Feb 2024, 12:11 AM | #13 |
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Well, I decided to try out a free account on mail.com. Was able to sign up with a nice email address on one of their domains, but then got stuck at the required cell phone verification code. Never received a code, and now I am locked out for requesting too many codes (which never arrived). So far my verdict is Not Reliable!
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27 Feb 2024, 02:23 AM | #14 |
The "e" in e-mail
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27 Feb 2024, 02:33 AM | #15 | |
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