email service providers

[Keith Bainbridge]

Good evening All

Especially those who were looking for suggestions for an email service
provider

I have discovered that sometime recently mail.com has disabled pop and
imap until you subscribe.

A service that appears to be related to mail.com, has allowed pop and
imap activity from my mail clients - Thunderbird and K9 - so far.

Try gmx.com

I have tried to subscribe to mail.com at their website - to be told that
I can't pay from Australia.

Their app will only allow a monthly subscription.

I can't get an explanation from their support people.

My first experience of this change in their t&c was when I set up a new
account, in an effort to tidy up my mail. When I tried to actovate pop
and imap, there was a notice saying these services are only available
for subscribers. I was happy to pay for a year, but can't. I have
been unable to download mail into Tbird using pop and imap, but neither
is working.

While registering that new account, I saw that mail.com offers email
address that reflect your interests - like @australiamail.com


If there is anybody from mail.com on the list PLEASE let us know how
to overcome your quirks.


A warning about another gotcha I found early on. They have policy
restrictions on some sub-folders of mail. They may store only a few
items. There is a setting somewhere to reverse this
--
All the best

Keith Bainbridge

***@gmail.com
***@gmail.com
[phone]

UTC + 10:00

[Yassine Chaouche]

Post by Keith Bainbridge
Good evening All

'Morning!

Post by Keith Bainbridge
If there is anybody from mail.com on the list   PLEASE  let us know how to overcome your quirks.

The world of email quirks is a labyrinth.
A good list that has e-mail administrators from around the planet is SDLU
(Spammers Dont Like Us)
it's mostly to discuss and combat spam,
but the point is if you want to get in touch with people that acutally run e-mail services here and there,
you're probably going to find them on this list.
It also offers a rare glimpse into the minds of those who are in charge of operating mail servers that run most of our electronic communications.

Also, you might want to discuss live at ##email on libera.chat which has around 150 users,
exchanging knowledge and strategies to overcome most e-mail problems.


Best,

[Walt E]

Post by Keith Bainbridge
Good evening All
Especially those who were looking for suggestions for an email service
provider
I have discovered that sometime recently mail.com has disabled pop and
imap until you subscribe.
A service that appears to be related to mail.com, has allowed pop and
imap activity from my mail clients - Thunderbird and K9 - so far.
Try gmx.com

Can you try also mail.de or mail.co.uk or mail.fr (the same company)? I
am their premium user. They work just fine for me. And they accept
payment by Paypal.

Thanks.

[Walt E]

FYI: GMX & mail.com are both 1&1 companies, hence the more than
similar
look to their sites(read: they're almost identical). The only
pertinent
differences are their postal addresses. Germany for GMX and USA for
mail.

GMX.com is for global. while gmx.net/gmx.de is for Germany only (maybe
CH and AT included).

Though the official gmx.com/mail.com may not support free pop/imap for
now, but you can try their third party cooperative services, such as
caramail.com, which supports free imap/pop for long days.

Thanks.

[erwan]

Post by Keith Bainbridge
Good evening All
Especially those who were looking for suggestions for an email service
provider
I have discovered that sometime recently mail.com has disabled pop and
imap until you subscribe.

In case it may help : a presentation of several mail services compatible
with open protocols
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10711-review-of-reputable-functional-and-secure-email-service

[Keith Bainbridge]

mail.com and (incidentally) gmx.com have both 'required' subscription for
pop/imap connection for years.

I know - I was surprised when they worked, it must be three years ago.

So on the off chance that I had done something in my sleep, I changed my
password, and mail is now downloading.     As the Toyota ad said several
years ago  bugga

Sorry for misleading people.  But I'll try the other suggestions



And, please remember the warning about sub-folder rules
--
All the best

Keith Bainbridge

***@gmail.com
***@gmail.com
[phone]

UTC + 10:00