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

[Eric W. Rasmussen]

Doesn't Yahoo charge for POP3 functionality? I think it's $20 a year.


On 07/01/2013 06:48 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck wrote:
> 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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