[Users] Best free e-mail service that works with Claws Mail by POP3

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sat Dec 10 08:14:01 CET 2016


On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:07:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:59:51 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>my experiences:
>>
>>Good:
>>Zoho works with Claws and all mailing lists.
>>Yahoo/Rocketmail works with Claws, but not with all mailing lists, but
>>for anything else. Some mailing lists work around the issues and apart
>>from this other providers will follow Yahoo soon or later and require
>>the same workaround.
>>
>>Not good:
>>IIRC Mail.com limits mails that can be send per hour and
>>IIRC safe-mail.net requires to log in once a month or so.
>>
>>I'm using Zoho, Yahoo/Rocketmail and even mail.com, but my
>>safe-mail.net accounts are unused.
>>
>>All my accounts are POP accounts, but IIRC all could be used with
>>IMAP, too. However, you ask for POP accounts. I don't care if they
>>are secure or insecure, respect privacy or not, so in this regards
>>you need to do research on your own. If you do so, let me know what
>>you find out about security and privacy.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ralf  
>
>PS:
>
>I dislike to use spam filters of the providers, because they usually
>cause too many false positives, so if possible I turn them off and if
>required I use the usually not very good server filters. Anyway, I
>don't receive much spam and the little bit of spam could be easily
>filtered after retrieving using bogofilter. I don't know what kind of
>settings I use by what of my accounts on the server side and I'm to
>lazy to take a look, but I don't miss mail, so no false positives
>without getting informed and again, not much spam.

PPS:

I don't remember any blackhole list issues with any of the above
mentioned providers. The only provider I remember, that several times
was blackhole listed for around 24 hours by one or the other recipient
is my ISP Alice, who gets money and doesn't prove a free e-mail service.




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