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19 Jun 2022, 04:06 AM | #1 |
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Free email providers with POP/IMAP support?
Are there any free email providers that offer this? Besides Gmail? That's free as in really free...not 'free' as in temporary trial introduction.
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20 Jun 2022, 10:34 PM | #2 |
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What do you mean "free"? There are a lot pseudo-free providers, such as gmail, outlook/hotmail, mail.ru, yandex.com/ru and others. And there are some real free. For example, disroot.org. But it is not for business (read ToS).
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21 Jun 2022, 03:42 AM | #3 |
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Gmail and Outlook do provide one bonus that not many other providers can offer: the near-guarantee they'll still be around in many years time. These providers are so big that the likelihood of them surviving for many more years is almost a certainty.
In normal circumstances, the same goes for Mail.ru and Yandex, assuming they're not suffering financially right now. Doesn't Yahoo also provide POP/IMAP or am I remembering wrong here? (It's been years ago since I last used Yahoo, but several people I know still happily use it. Never asked them if they use an email client or webmail) |
21 Jun 2022, 03:43 AM | #4 |
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PS: not only Gmail and Outlook offer the near-guarantee that they'll survive for many more years, they also offer the near-guarantee that their services will remain free indeed. Which was an essential part of the question the OP asked.
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21 Jun 2022, 06:41 AM | #5 |
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My employer supplies me with a free email account, and actually pays me for using it...
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21 Jun 2022, 08:40 PM | #6 |
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It's all said right. One nuance. You must be said to yourself who you are, the customer or the product. So if you are a commodity, then yes, Big Brother (google, microsoft, yahoo, yandex, mail.ru and so on) is waiting for you. If you are a customer, find already about 25$/20EUR per year for service. By the way, there are services that accept the cryptocurrency.
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2 Jul 2022, 07:16 PM | #7 | |
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You could probably add Yahoo and/or AOL to those as well I think. Not that I would use them myself on a daily basis but I know there are still tons of people using them. D |
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3 Jul 2022, 12:45 PM | #8 |
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All germany free email providers have the features you requested.
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4 Jul 2022, 07:04 AM | #9 |
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