On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:13:03 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:29:51 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> In linux.debian.user, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I don't use Gmail's webmail but Mutt and Pan (newsreader). >>> >>> >> Me too, except it's mutt and slrn. The mail for my domains is hosted by >> gmail for four years now, never had any trouble beyond an outage that >> lasted about four hours once. > > Yes, and that's precisely what makes me doubt for migrating to another > provider: Gmail's reliability is very good. > > I first used my ISP e-mail facility (@telefonica.net) but it had (has?) > two big problems: > > 1/ Their e-mail service is very poor (timed based pop3 logins, smtp > service slow and more than often their e-mail servers are down/ > unaccessible, in brief, a very unreliable service). > > 2/ The e-mail service is binded to their phone line services which means > that if you stop using their DSL or land line service you also lose the > e- > mail address. Too bad. > > But Google services are starting to worrying me because they want to > control almost any aspect of what you do and how it has to be done. > Although I know how to prevent being tracked I don't like that policy so > much, it's a matter of principles :-)
You might like to try Lavabit. It is free, and I have found it excellent. Here is a review: <http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/gr/lavabit.htm> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jld1uj$lfo$1...@dough.gmane.org
