Permanent email addresses

[RogerM]

I've just kicked ntl into touch and have paid up until today. Unfortunately, ntl, in an effort to really **** me off (successful!) cut me off on 30th March and deleted all email in my account. I have other accounts, but I think it's now time to have a permanent email address that is independent of my ISP and where a change of ISP doesn't require a block mailing to everyone in my address book.

There are a number of outfits that offer these for a modest sum - typically $2 - $3 per month. Does anyone have any practical experience of them? Who do you use? How have you overcome this problem? Would having a dialup connection on a pay as you go basis which I only use (say) once every 3 months offer the same facility for less?

Any advice gratefully received.

 

[nine]

I use two: softhome.net and gmx.net are both good .... and free at the basic level. Both support pop3 and browser access.

 

[Trader333]

Roger,

30th April ? it is only the 2nd April today so are you in fact a timelord ? maybe you are the new Dr Who ?

Anyway Husmail is pretty good especially if you want high levels of encryption. www.hushmail.com


Paul

 

[RogerM]

Paul - yeh! I've had to re-morph my body already 'cos Billy Piper has terminally exhausted me! s/b 30th March.

I'll have a look at hushmail. Fastmail.fm has also been recommended.

 

[hagadol]

Gmail is very popular now, from Google. 1Gig storage, 10MB max file size. I think these are just about to be increased.

Gmail is by invite only, though you can get an invite here:

http://isnoop.net/gmail

You could alos register a domain and then that address is yours forever, assuming you pay the yearly fee !

 

[Salty Gibbon]

I had a similar problem with Wanadoo.

I migrated to Freedom2Surf and there was supposed to be a smooth changeover.

However, in their bloodymindedness, Wanadoo cut me off 4 days before the planned migration date and truly f***ed me off.

The upside was that when they came to refund the unused portion of that month's fee, they somehow managed to credit my credit card twice. I have not bothered to point this out to them. I wonder how long it will take those incompetents to realise their error.

 

[RogerM]

hagadol - I'd considered gmail, but they have ads included which I don't want.

pobox.com looks good?

 

[chris_ri]

Hi,

I've used www.ftml.net for about a year now after recomendation from a colleague (IFreelance IT guy like myself) and I think they're great , you get

. Staged pricing starting at $0, (I took the $19.95 per year for the extra features)
. Spam detection
. Virus checking
. Folders/rules for
. Configurable look and feel
. Password protected file storage and web page serving
. Aliases
. Domain hosting
etc.

They're based in Australia and offer many basic domains if you dont have your own.

Cant praise them highly enough!

Chris

 

[Roberto]

www.fastmail.fm has won many awards from computer magazines etc. for being "best email provider". They have a whole range of free and paid-for services and are about a million times better than hotmail. You can get quite a good service from them for $20 per year. Definitely worth a look.

Edit: now I think about it, it sounds absolutely identical to what Chris is talking about in the post above! Maybe they are 2 different addresses for the same service?

 

[chris_ri]

Hi Roberto,

Yes they are the same, you can have fastmail.fm, speedymail.org, imap.cc ... the list is long.

Chris

 

[RogerM]

Thanks for your help guys. I tried the free trial of pobox.com but it was very slow. typically 5 - 10 mins to deliiver an email, and up to 20 mins if there was a 1MB attachement. So risked my $20 for a 12 month sub and opened a fastmail account. Seems virtually instantaneous and easy to configure. Webmail easy to use when travelling as well.

 

[oatman]

I've been using My Way. No spam or ads.FREE
http://home.myway.com/
don't know how fast they are though.