Recommendations for email provider

Doshwaster

I have my own domain hosted with Ionos for professional use but I also have a Gmail account as a backup and because so many websites and apps use Google authentication. I've also got a Microsoft and Virgin (my ISP) email addresses but never use them.

onomatopoeia99

I have my own domain and use postfix to receive mail by SMTP and dovecot as the IMAP server, with SSL certificates generated with certbot / letsencrypt.  Aside from domain registration of about £12/year everything else is free.

Don't need to worry about some fly-by-night email provider withdrawing service or starting to charge that way, everything is under my control.

zagubov

Billxx said:

Yep, can't beat gmail imho.  Has a nice feature you can add text to the address to help with tracking, i.e address is joe.soap@gmail.com, you can use joe.soap-youtube@gmail.com as a subscriber address.  Emails will still get to you and you will know the source if they sell it on.

I thought you could track any type email address by putting a "." anywhere before the @ symbol. It would still reach you but you'd know who'd sold it on.

flaneurs_lobster

zagubov said:

Billxx said:

Yep, can't beat gmail imho.  Has a nice feature you can add text to the address to help with tracking, i.e address is joe.soap@gmail.com, you can use joe.soap-youtube@gmail.com as a subscriber address.  Emails will still get to you and you will know the source if they sell it on.

I thought you could track any type email address by putting a "." anywhere before the @ symbol. It would still reach you but you'd know who'd sold it on.

Not quite, it works in Gmail (but not at the beginning or the end of the prefix) but not for Microsoft (Hotmail, MSN etc). Don't know about other services.

tehone

flaneurs_lobster said:

zagubov said:

Billxx said:

Yep, can't beat gmail imho.  Has a nice feature you can add text to the address to help with tracking, i.e address is joe.soap@gmail.com, you can use joe.soap-youtube@gmail.com as a subscriber address.  Emails will still get to you and you will know the source if they sell it on.

I thought you could track any type email address by putting a "." anywhere before the @ symbol. It would still reach you but you'd know who'd sold it on.

Not quite, it works in Gmail (but not at the beginning or the end of the prefix) but not for Microsoft (Hotmail, MSN etc). Don't know about other services.

Plus Addressing works for Outlook.com (so also the variations like hotmail.com) as well as Gmail - been like that for nearly 10 years. Its also available if Office365 if your organisation uses that as admin feature.

flaneurs_lobster

tehone said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

zagubov said:

Billxx said:

Yep, can't beat gmail imho.  Has a nice feature you can add text to the address to help with tracking, i.e address is joe.soap@gmail.com, you can use joe.soap-youtube@gmail.com as a subscriber address.  Emails will still get to you and you will know the source if they sell it on.

I thought you could track any type email address by putting a "." anywhere before the @ symbol. It would still reach you but you'd know who'd sold it on.

Not quite, it works in Gmail (but not at the beginning or the end of the prefix) but not for Microsoft (Hotmail, MSN etc). Don't know about other services.

Plus Addressing works for Outlook.com (so also the variations like hotmail.com) as well as Gmail - been like that for nearly 10 years. Its also available if Office365 if your organisation uses that as admin feature.

Agreed, but the previous post was about use of periods in email address prefixes, eg johnsmith@gmail.com = jo.hns.mit.h@gmail.com whereas johnsmith@hotmail.com <> john.smith@hotmail.com

J_B

flaneurs_lobster said:

Agreed, but the previous post was about use of periods in email address prefixes, eg johnsmith@gmail.com = jo.hns.mit.h@gmail.com whereas johnsmith@hotmail.com <> john.smith@hotmail.com

Come on, we are in England, not america - isn't it a dot/full stop?

flaneurs_lobster

J_B said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

Agreed, but the previous post was about use of periods in email address prefixes, eg johnsmith@gmail.com = jo.hns.mit.h@gmail.com whereas johnsmith@hotmail.com <> john.smith@hotmail.com

Come on, we are in England, not america - isn't it a dot/full stop?

You may be in England @J_B but I'm not. 

Since we are discussing the use of email systems run by companies incorporated in the USA, it's only right that we use their choice of character nomenclature. If, however, we were talking about a British email system like, er.........

J_B

Well, this is a British site and moneysavingexpert dot com sounds mush better than moneysavingexpert period com