Which email provider do you use?

I've been using Gmail since the day it first started up. Never had any reason to use anything else honestly - it seems to be fine for my uses.
 
the ones I can remember in the 90s

Zetnet
AOL
Yahoo
Compuserve
Microsoft

Then around 97 got an ntlworld and used that for many years until several years ago I went over to Gmail.

I don't care about Bill Gates reading my emails of what I've bought on Amazon/eBay or seeing all my OCUK notifications.
 
Hosting via Krystal emails the same.
I have about 20 email addresses for several businesses. Is there a better way? without costing a fortune per address
 
mattyg said:
Hosting via Krystal emails the same.
I have about 20 email addresses for several businesses. Is there a better way? without costing a fortune per address
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Depends if you can convert them into shared mailboxes which are free and are great for things like [email protected] or [email protected].

If you need [email protected] with a completely separate mailbox then you have to pay for that. I've just switched to Google Workspace and have just one user at the moment but about 10 shared mailboxes for £6 a month. I have 6 or so domains registered with the account.
 
BTInternet originally, then it became Talk21. Then on to Zen Internet which I still use. I have gmail but seldom use it.
 
I had an excellent ISP called Nildram which served me well for years and I had a gotadsl email address through them.

Then they were taken over by Talk Talk and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now with tutamail & it seems very secure.

Still got hotmail too but it has a knack of not filtering out spam and putting stuff I actually do want to read in the junk email folder.
 
That Jekka Gal said:
I had an excellent ISP called Nildram which served me well for years and I had a gotadsl email address through them.

Then they were taken over by Talk Talk and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Ah yes, the gotadsl address. I forgot that (I also had Nildram). I binned Nildram when they were taken over by Talk Talk.
 
Too numerous to mention historically but I'm an old school plus.net user so use them for mail provision along with a custom domain since 2006. Also have gmail and outlook for primarily dross management.

I suspect I may move to fastmail, if and when PN calls time their mail server provision / support.
 
That Jekka Gal said:
They were very good - had a direct line to a tech support team. Talk Talk, on the other hand, was my first intro to call centre hell and passing the buck.
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Yes. The best ISP I've ever been with. They also had really low pings for their dialup, ISDN and ADSL. As soon as Talk Talk took over it went downhill immediately.

But I've just remembered I managed to get free internet for about a year from Talk Talk. As soon as they took over I kept getting outages every week for an hour or two before it would come back online. I would phone Talk Talk and they kept saying they had no record of me being a customer. I also realised they stopped billing me completely. I tried to move to another ISP at that point, partly because of the outages and partly because I wanted a faster connection. Free internet was nice but it was just too unreliable. But no other ISP would take me because there was a Talk Talk marker on my line and I had to get them to release it first. I was going round in circles for months. I only managed to get it sorted when I escalated to OFCOM and they intervened.
 
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That Jekka Gal said:
They were very good - had a direct line to a tech support team. Talk Talk, on the other hand, was my first intro to call centre hell and passing the buck.
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Oh don't talk TalkTalk to me! The Customer Services from hell. The were the reason I went to Zen. I used to absolutely dreaded talking to them. They always misunderstood what I was after and always messed up my package. Then they lost all my information in that hack and never so much as a sorry. Bah! Terrible company.
 
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