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Free != Good
If you choose a free service, you must put up with whatever they give you. All free services will eventually deteriorate into advert servers and/or data abusers.
Solution: Own domain, own mail server.
Yes, more work, but manageable. Static IP or VPS needed, of course.
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I am on PlusNet and they give you a free email address with the service. But it is UK only.
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Make sure you've got a good backup of your email though. My parents are with PlusNet, and all of their stored email disappeared a couple of years ago.
It was almost as if someone connected using POP3 without the "leave on server" option, but they only ever connect using IMAP.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Of course ...
Richard Deeming wrote: Make sure you've got a good backup of ...
... everything that is important.
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Yahoo still exists? 
Us Europeans mainly know it as a search engine from the late 90's and early 00's.
swampwiz wrote: but I am but concerned with privacy there
What makes you think Yahoo is any better?
I use GMail for all my personal email, but I have an Outlook account as well (the successor to hotmail and live).
I'm not switching to Outlook because I've got everything in GMail and it works fine, but I like its fresh and minimal look (compared to GMail).
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Heck, even AOL still exists!
And all I remember them as was as a massive supplier of unwanted CD's ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Remember Netscape? lol. I can't believe AOL is still around.
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There are places in America where AOL is about the only option. My Aunt in rural Alabama is an example.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I remember them as the best way to get free floppy disks. They'd send you, IIRC 4 per post card filled out. Rival free floppy services only sent 1 or 2.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Before CDs, AOL had 1, then 2, then 3 diskettes(1.44MB). We repurposed hundreds of these diskettes to ship our products. Put a new label over the old label, xcopy, ship!
Youngsters now a days don't know why the ZIP programs have the "span" option.
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I agree, I use Gmail as well and yes there may be privacy concerns with that but who on earth would care to look at what I send/receive? For most of the sharks out there I am just an insignificant fish, no significant money to rip, no influence worth any money.
It does offer really good spam rejection though. I have not had any email from Nigerian princes or former US military personnel that could provide me with a lot of money if I just forwarded a few thousand Euros/US dollars to get access to the 'hidden' funds in a long long time.
The basic idea is, if you get info on me: what are you are going to do with it?
I am pretty immune to any sort of advertising and I am paranoid about all sorts of offers etc... so screw whichever one who tries to take advantage of me, just try it and it will work when hell freezes over.
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I have a spare AOL diskette I could send you..
Get your own domain name and filter the email through Gmail.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have a stack of over 100 of them that I have been planning on using for shotgun targets or a mobile or something. Still trying to think of a creative use for them...
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I used a pair for just that, years ago. My wife and I eventually misplaced them.
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If you are really concerned about privacy then do not use email. But if you are willing to accept its limitations then Outlook or Gmail; I actually use both.
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And you're not concerned about privacy with yahoo (or anyone else for that matter) ?
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My yahoo mail has no modal dialogs. I'm not sure (since I'm not logged in at the moment) but I may be using their previous version.
Aside from that, I have FireFox with the popup blocker enabled, ad blocker, and pixel graphics &etc. blocked. (Ghostery, Adblocker X)
The annoying things are (1) first item in inbox is often a paid ad - but I don't have to look, and (2), at login, sometimes it wants my phone or other info which I bypass.
*CP I disable both plugins here: you gotta' make a living, somehow.
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For $3 a year, I got a web site, mailboxes, etc. Paid for itself not thinking about it.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Why not use a mail client like Thunderbird via IMAP. It presents all connected email accounts in a unified manner, including filesizes, without having to suffer the bad layouts, popups and ads you get when going direct?
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Thunderbird also enables moving emails between accounts without having to forward. And it provides a local backup in case the provider does something stupid (losing emails was mentioned in a previous post).
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You may all want to look at ProtonMail....
Just wanted to add: Subject lines in ProtonMail messages are not end-to-end encrypted, however Your message content and attachments are end to end encrypted....
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If you MS-Outlook you can install multiple mailboxes in one instance. I currently have three - one business and two individual. The two individual are both free.
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