Many platforms read your email the main ones are Microsoft and Gmail but they all do it apart from Proton Mail and a few others.
What email platform are you using?
If not listed keen to hear in the comments below.
What Email Platform Are You Using?
SpeedAU on 22/11/2024 - 00:07
Last edited 22/11/2024 - 00:52
Last edited 22/11/2024 - 00:52
Poll Options
- 209Microsoft O365 / Outlook / Hotmail
- 8Microsoft Exchange Online
- 476Gmail
- 17Zoho Mail
- 29Fast Mail
- 29iCloud Mail
- 31Yahoo Mail
- 74Proton Mail
- 4Mail.com
- 5MXRoute.com
- 18Host My Own
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Hotmail as it used to ceases to exist, just legacy hotmail accounts
You can still create hotmail accounts I think.
Sir, you have insulted the honour of Hotmail. I challenge you to an duel via email. Kindly reply with a GIF of your preferred weapon.
Where is the option for Gmail via the grandfathered free Google Workspace (Formerly Google Apps for Your Domain). I wish I registered more domains with it.
Still using mine too - but they cripple access to so many aspects of a Google account under Workspace - e.g. family sharing etc.
I was very disappointed to find since they forced me to switch to the free workspace that I can no longer do google opinion rewards.
Still not as bad as when they had simply planned to shaft us before the backlash.
You can still link secondary domains to the same main account if that's of benefit to you. Works well for my use case.
Mail (Apple), not the same as iCloud Mail
Zoho with custom domains. At $18py it's great value and I've got a few mail boxes. Couple this with Simple Login or addy.io and you're pretty much sorted.
Support can be haphazard but to be honest, it's rare you need it.
I've been using Zoho for my business email for 8 years now and can't fault it
@hotmail.com addresses are vintage
Years ago I closed MSN Messenger for the last time without even realising it.
Ikr, Skype just didn't have the same vibe/feel as MSN Messenger
Or for people that are lazy to move on.
Could Google Workspace (previously known as G Suite) be added? Kinda difference vs a Free Gmail account.
I am using Australia Post.
2 factor authentication takes around 7-10 business days…
I use carrier pigeon.
RFC 1149 Nice.
Amazing !
An additional property is built-in worm detection and eradication.
Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and cable trays.@whyisave: .
RFC 2549 - ads Quality of Service.
RFC 6214 - ads IPv6People really love this joke. and I love how if you work long enough in IT you have knowledge of so much stupid shit like this.
If you don't input the passcode on the bird in 60 seconds it flies away.
And only on a Tuesday or Thursday.
This is OZB, we are geekier than average, you should let us choose multiple answers. I've got them all except Yahoo, and I've got more.
Yahoo7 ride or die club
how do i do that :P
When you create the poll I think there's an option.
but they all do it apart from Proton Mail
As far as you know…. They are still required to follow the law which might mean them reading it etc as required to comply :)
Which is why if you care about that sort of thing you're encrypting before you send.
It's open source and audited to be E2E encrypted, so you can see that they cannot read anything within your account.
They comply with thousands of Swiss legal requests every year and all they have been able to provide is metadata of you logging into your account such as device type and IP, which can be easily spoofed, as well as optional recovery email address, which is not the only way to recover an account.If you are sending emails to a non-encrypted account then cops can just read it on that end though.
so you can see that they cannot read anything within your account.
I've heard similar claims many times before that ended up not being true.
Even the great and wonderful Apple lies about this. They make it sound like iMessage is end-to-end encryption, the Apple marketing spin says even Apple cannot decrypt the content of your conversations while they are in transit between devices.
They forget to say that once the messages are backed up in iCloud they can read it.
They comply with thousands of Swiss legal requests every year
So as I said, they comply with the law.
If you are sending emails to a non-encrypted account then cops can just read it on that end though.
Correct, Proton Mail might be a secure bubble, but once it leaves, it isn't.
I'm not saying Proton Mail isn't good, I'm just saying that is anything really secure these days even when they claim they are.
The difference is verifiable open source. Companies can pinky promise all they want that everything is secure but unless you can audit their code to see your information being encrypted before it goes through their servers it doesn't count for much.
That's why it's weird to me that people use Telegram, a closed source Russian app, for private messaging.
As I said, it's been proven in court many times that Proton can only share information that can easily be useless if you care about opsec, and has no access to anything within your account, or they would have been shut down years ago for not complying with court orders.
Proton is probably the best option we have at the moment for security and privacy.
That's what they said about An0m
Proton and tutanota
This person knows
I have a Hotmail account that is so old it still uses four letter password.
Ironically, this might make it more secure because I figure no one is going to try and hack it using a password of that length, so I've never updated it.
ozemail
ISP (which I should change because may need to churn soon)
and hotmail
and gmail on phone
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Ooft, never go with the ISP mail. Forces you to stay with them regardless of your life circumstances or quality of service
You're gonna want to change this sooner rather than later with the ISP email. As ISP's is around the world and including ones here have started to phase it out.
I have multiple - gmail, exchange, own and Outlook all coming into Outlook. 🤷♀️
I know this is insane but my daily driver is still AOL (with Mail and iCloud as my less and more secure options)
You've got mail!
I've been using mail.com since is it was email.com in 1996
Back then, my username was taken at Hotmail, so I looked for a free alternative.
I've been using the same password the whole time
Prior to that, my email was [email protected]
I’ve got Gmail and Microsoft but I use Edison on iPhone and Windows laptop.
Nobody using FastMail? Australian company.
In Straya the term 'Fast Mail' is considered an oxymoron or redundant.
Fast Male, is a medical condition (apparently)
Pretty expensive for what they offer?
No multiple options and no option for owning your own domain and renting a server for email.
Boo. Boo and hiss and boo again!
OP hasn't yet acknowledged we all use a variety of clients, providers & hosts
Self hosting email should only be done if you hate yourself. If you don't want to spend lots of time trying to sort out IP reputation for sending, you're going to have to rely on a 3rd party relay anyway.
As someone who self-hosts their email, I totally agree.
I probably hate myself, and I'm still having deliverability issues to Outlook.com (and everyone and their dog who uses it with their custom domains - like Ray White and Blackshaw.
I had to get a gmx.com account to talk to them.
I use the same hotmail account i created in year 8. 60k+ unread emails.
Damn only 15k here.
Spark by Readdle and Outlook
I'm still using yahoo mail since it first began and it still has the number 69 in the address 25yrs later.
God bless my juvenile mind.
Why no AOL options
Why no BIGPOND options
Don't all these suckers even know about Bigpond email? It comes free with the best ISP in the universe!
I work in IT and instantly stop listening once anyone mentioned they have a Bigpond email
Other.
I use infomaniak, $2.5/month. It is a large company.
My primary mail is runbox, which is located physically in Norway and costs me a small amount, with proton in Switzerland as a free backup.
I do it because:
1. I don't want to lose my email address every time I change ISP,
2. both runbox and proton are accessed from an encrypted browser session, not an email client, so I can access my mail from any computer, they archive whatever emails I want to keep, I don't have to do that, and my emails are "read" in a sandbox on their computer not mine so my computer is protected against any embedded malware,
3. they both provide legal privacy, so I ever want to send an email I don't want to be traceable, they are both out of reach of the Australian legal system,
4. runbox lets me create and dispose of alias email addresses that all direct back to my primary email address and
5. runbox is small enough that you have access to the experts who created and run it when you need support.so how is it different than gmail again?
Why would you want an email to be untraceable? Why not just use a dummy account for that?
I've never come across people that use y7mail.com
I might be the only one.
TPG decided they no longer wanted to run email servers so they "outsourced" that function to themessagingco under the same (legacy ?) conditions for the first year then I got moved to a "subscription" model (aka. $3.95pm) so I moved to proton …
TPG have now increased the price of the email-less internet … sigh …
You definitely made the right decision to migrate off that platform.
I think people that are stupid enough to pay for that platform and they're not taking the time while paying to migrate to another email address are going to be very surprised in a few years when the deal with "Atmail Group" expires and they lose the rights to operate addresses with those domains.
platform as in service or client?
on my Window laptop I use free Thunderbird (for years) - and read my hotmail and gmail within it
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
on my smartphone I see gmail and hotmail (as 'Outlook') as separate icons
msn.com and me.com
lol imagine thinking proton doesnt read your emails, those guys sold out back in 2022.
Any info? I would like to know more.
what do you mean by Microsoft Exchange Online - is this like Gmail for business kind of thing?
maybe also add an option of hosted email by MSP or hoster etc - there are still many of them out there !
what do you mean by Microsoft Exchange Online - is this like Gmail for business kind of thing?
I'll try to do my best the equivalent of Gmail for business is Google Workspaces the equivalent on the Microsoft side would be Office 365 now Microsoft 365. Microsoft Exchange Online is a sub plan of Microsoft 365, these days that doesn't include the full office suite. It's just email.
However, in Legacy scenarios, it also could refer to hosted exchange but in Microsoft's Cloud.
This post will only be valid for for 28 seconds before Microsoft/Google rename their product offering for the hundredth time this year :D
Exchange Online is a Cloud based email service offered by Microsoft. When you a create free Outlook.com email account, it uses Exchange Online under the hood, but you don't have much control. If you purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription, you can create your own Exchange Online organisation with your own domain, and you have access to many other services of Exchange Online.
—- answer without using AI
thanks ! so yep, basically like Google Apps for Business or whatever is called now
Anyone had a usa.net email address and lost everything?
email is a protocol not a "platform".
the providers you listed are known as platforms because they offer more than just email.cool bro
your mum's
Rookie here
I have a domain I’ve done nothing with for years
Want to use it for email
What’s the best way to startWho's your domain registered with? You can look at some of the options here on the whirlpool wiki me and a few others put this list together a while back.
Friends don't let friends run their own mail servers so do it at your own risk. Side-effects of running your own mail server include wanting to take a swim with your toaster.
Kudos:D that's probably one of my favourite one liners as someone that's been in this industry for awhile perfect example here
I use Titan
So I've been wanting to get my own domain for a while and set it up to have some server related stuff on it, and just be a general website to use for friends and family (maybe something like setting up Overseerr and stuff like that). Does anyone have any suggestions for how I'd get started with all this? I tried finding stuff on reddit but it keeps suggesting selfhosted which isn't what I want, and I'm not hugely technical enough to know what I need to look for.
The first issue with all this though is actually getting my own domain. Unfortunately all the cool versions of lastname.(tdl) are taken, so I've been struggling with what to do with it for a while now…
Wait for a obble.com.au offer on here and you can get all you need for not a lot of money with local support.
Finding a domain you like probably requires a bit of creative thought these days.
Titan
I've used Gmail since it was in beta (possibly the longest beta of any product ever).
But I use Outlook as a client on both my PC and phone.
Proton has a range of other free products focused on security and privacy such as cloud storage, vpn and calendar.
Gmail since beta in 2003.
Just checked and I have 25.93GB of emails haha.
25.93GB of emails
How much free storage do/did you get ?
When Gmail was released , I remember they had an industry-leading 1GB of space, compared to Hotmail's 2MB.
Funny thing was, they announced GMail on April Fool's day.The free 1GB moved to 5GB and then 15GB inclusive of Google Drive. Ive been purchasing 1TB and then 2TB of cloud storage for the past 8 years i think, via VPN for $20 a year. Then this year Google give 2TB 12 months free with Pixel 9 Pro purchases so im on that till August next year.
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Why no Hotmail option?