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

[Dale]

Jack wrote:
> Relying on the collective experience and advice of the group here.
>
> As may be obvious to many of you, the address this message is sent
> from "...@×××××××××××××××××.net" isn't really a fully functional
> address.  Email sent to that address will be forwarded by the
> sourceforge system to a personal address I specify.  When I send a
> message "From: " that address, however, I cannot send it through the
> sourceforge system, as I don't actually have an email account with
> them.  Currently, I send it through my gmail account.  That works
> because I added that address in my gmail Settings under "Accounts and
> Import" /  "Send mail as:".  To set it up, gmail sends a message to
> that address, and I click on a link in the message to prove it does
> come to me.  That's been working find for a long time, but, ...
>
> 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.  I have my own domain, but
> namecheap.com does seem willing to have the appropriate DNS record
> point to a different email provider.  At this point, I'm not
> interested in running my own email server.  I currently only need two
> mailboxes, maybe a small number more in the future, but this is
> personal, not commercial.  I don't need to do bulk emails, maybe up to
> a dozen or so recipients.  I do NOT expect it to be free, but cost is
> at least some consideration.  I don't need huge storage limits, as
> although I use IMAP access when on the road, when I'm home, I use POP3
> to download everything.  I'd also like at least minimal control over
> spam filtering, mainly to let almost anything through for me to filter
> locally.  If privateemail.com has false positives for everything from
> some sender (such as ups.com, for example) I need to open a ticket
> with them to add a whitelist.  No such thing as clicking on "Not spam"
> and apparently no intent to ever do so.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Jack
>


I knew I would do this.  I decided to search for it and it hit me,
startmail.com.  https://www.startmail.com  Hopefully that link will
work.  That said, there may be even better out there with costs that
vary.  Generally, the more secure, the higher the cost but not always. 
A couple go to far for me.  I store my emails locally so I use POP or
whatever to fetch them.  Some secure systems do not allow that.  Secures
emails may use some other connection method.

When I did my search, I found this site that talks about the pros and
cons of several providers.  You may find it a interesting read.  It
lists several sites and talks about how they work, what they offer and
what they don't and costs.  It also links to a article about PGP that
you may want to read as well, I'm about to myself. 

https://restoreprivacy.com/private-secure-email/

Hope that helps and by all means, post what you pick and why.  It may
help others and even myself. 

Dale

:-)  :-)