[Noisebridge-discuss] decent stable email service - non corporate based

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Hi to all,
I'm sorry if my email is still a "bit hot" but I'm boiling, the emotional part is in the first paragraph, the rest are the true questions. My email service yahoo annoyed me that I'm glowing, forcing me to change my password for no reason what so ever, saying I "MUST" change it and employ upper case letters. I did not have a problem till now with my yahoo account concerning security (at least I'm not aware of that) and dictating me what "I have to do" is really annoying me, especially when it takes more than half an hour to find out how to contact customer service which generally takes for ever to help anyway. I know that it is a free service but it is not the first time what they employed the changes without asking, just saying "you do it now", one of the previous ones was for example switching the my old email view/system to the new one without asking, just actually when I was most busy with preparation to CCC event ...

So my question has actually two parts.

FIRST - is there some decent and stable open source community supported email service which I could use instead? I may chip in some cash if it is for a good cause ... I would like to have some storage capacity but no attachments really so it can be limited (I prefer not to delete my emails however), I'm just worried about loosing my emails because that happened to me with "justhost" which I actually paid for, they servers went down, they lost all my data (web pages and email account) and they did not even say sorry. I did not get in touch with some of the people in my contacts which I lost since and probably never will ... 
 
SECOND - I have more than 10 years worth of emails at Yahoo and I wonder how hard (if possible at all) it would be to download them and if I do so, if it is possible to browse them later on and use them in I would say "active way" - go through them quickly, find what I need, answer/send email on my new client etc.

Well that would be my questions, if you have any suggestion please let me know I would really appreciate it! I have postpone this step for a long time, they were annoying me quite for a while but that long history and all the sources there made me go over it but now it is too much!

Many thanks,

Sincerely, 

Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck


biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker


http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org


"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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