[gentoo-user] Re: OT: looking for email provider

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2020-02-01 17:08, Jack wrote:

> I'm trying to move away from gmail.  Especially for mailing lists like
> this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I get the
> message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in my inbox
> because it's a duplicate of a message already in my sentbox.
>
> I do have an email account with privateemail.com (thorough
> namecheap.com) but they are unable or unwilling to have a similar
> setup.  I'm not even sure they actually understand what I'm asking of
> them, but I've wasted more than enough time trying.
>
> So - I'm asking if anyone can recommend an email service provider that
> understands this and will let me set it up.

For your immediate problem, my answer would depend on whether you're OK
interacting with email entirely through the browser, or you are a
classicist like myself and want to use a "real" email client like mutt
or thunderbird.

From your writing about gmail, I am guessing it's the former: you're
okay with webmail.  In that case, I recommend that you look at
protonmail, tutanota and hushmail.  I have used all of them and I still
use protonmail for one of my personas :)  I hasten to add I have _not_
checked how easy it is to mask the sender address at any of these.

The longer view though is that this will get harder and harder, for the
reasons other people in the thread have given.  google and company will
impose their fascist anti-spam checks and they will get away with it
because most everyone uses google and company, and nobody but a few
geeks cares about the corner case of mailing lists.  

<sarcasm> Who needs mailing lists when we have web forums? </sarcasm>
This is what writers like Jon Corbet of LWN mean by "the death of
email".  And this is why, if you are one of the geeks who do care, the
only way to prolong your life with email is to set up your own server.
You're already halfway there as you have your own domain.

-- 
Ian