On 06/22/2021 06:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2021-06-22 at 07:17, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to
make it absolutely clear;
gmail != email
or, in words;
gmail IS NOT email
There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect google to
do anything right.
All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours.
One reason I pay a local supplier for email service -- effectively
it is cheaper than any so called "free service".
Doesn't your ISP provide an email server? In my neck of the woods,
its part of the services an ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud
connection.
Using ISP-provided E-mail comes with the downside of being tied to that ISP.
That was part of why I did not pursue it. My ISP is a large national
provider. I email provider is ~5 miles away and I have purchased
hardware and software there for 3 decades -- means excellent service.
I used to get an E-mail account through the family's ISP (and in fact I
still have that mailbox configured in Thunderbird, just for access to
the archived local mail stored underneath it), but when we changed ISPs,
I lost access to that account and had to go through a bunch of hoops to
transition to a new address. At that point, I decided it wasn't worth
doing that transition to the address provided by the new ISP, because
what if we changed again in the future?
That's the point at which I searched out, settled on, and signed up with
a third-party standalone-service E-mail provider - in the form of
Fastmail. It's paid off; I've never had cause to regret working with
them, and we've changed ISPs at least once (possibly as much as three
times) in the meanwhile.
