HELP.....MY Opera email is going bye bye..

[dixiegrrrrl]

Last edited Thu Dec 19, 2013, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Sometime back, Frontier, our only dsl provider, stopped providing email service for our home email.
Instead, they contracted with Yahoo to run Frontier customer email, and, not suprisingly, we get tons of spam,not to mention using one of the major NSA sources of spying.
So, I found Opera email which I could configure to come directly into my Thunderbird (Firefox) resident email client.

Now Opera says it is going away.
I want to find another email source, but NOT gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail.

Any suggestions?

[gvstn]

1. I think this one is a bit slow on loading

But I signed up for a gmx.com account when Yahoo Mail changed interfaces. It appears to have a popup where you have to say to go to GMX mail each time you sign in which I don't like. I haven't really used the service but in 2 months I see virtually no spam in my inbox. It might be worth a try to sign up and see how it goes. I haven't tried linking it to Thunderbird so I don't know if that is possible using the iMAP settings in Thunderbird.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. since I posted I remembered what I needed

is a free POP provider, so that I can have mail downloaded from the provider to my computer inbox.

And I remember the hassle it was ( to me, at least) to set up the POP account, find and use the right port numbers.

sigh..
but, gotta do it, since the only alternative is with Yahoo transmitting the email.

So, will be checking into free mail that offers POP also.

Thought about a low fee service, then remembered how often email services change and/or just go bye bye.

[ucrdem]

3. Gmail isn't too bad.

You can have your ISP forward incoming mail to your g-mail account, or to one of them, and then you don't have to worry about filling up your ISP mailbox. Not sure about work email though.

MS also provides an ever-changing collection of e-mail programs, some free, some in Office, but yeah sometimes they're a pain to set up. I still haven't gotten the Office 13 version to retrieve my work email, although Mail, the crappy program that comes installed with Win 8, does.

[douglas9]

4. Email Reviews

http://free-email-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. ahhhhhhh...there's a good start..

thanks.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Do it yourself?

Register your own domain and host your own email server? It is not too difficult. Otherwise you are going to need to use some web based service that could hand over your infoz to the NSA.

This one still exists too (I think I had an account in the 90s): http://www.excite.com/

[douglas9]

7. Welcome to Vivaldi.net!

https://vivaldi.net/

How to move your email from My Opera to Vivaldi Mail:

https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/how-to-move-your-email-from-my-opera-to-vivaldi-mail

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Will check it out, thanks.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Here's an old discussion talking about how Opera bought Fastmail and...

was using it instead of the outside providers it used in the past:

http://www.w7forums.com/threads/whats-up-with-opera-mail.10395/

But, that was in 2010 and here's another post about how Fastmail employees bought the company back from Opera last year:

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/

The way it should work is that your operamail ID, password, and everything else should still work the way my old Mindspring ID worked through many sales of the business and the way Hotmail addies still work even though it's now Outlook. Why they are being so quiet about this, though, amazes me. And why just drop a bomb saying it's all up to you to make changes and tell the gazillion people, lists, and companies you correspond with instead of transferring your account like they should?

FWIW, my primary mail is with Yahoo (I have another post on that), and my gmail and hotmail accounts are working without any problems. I get some spam on Yahoo, but I get up to a hundred emails a day with maybe up to 5 spams some days. The others I get no spam at all. And I have them all, with a couple of others, downloading to Thunderbird. Except for the one recent problem with Yahoo, which may not be Yahoo's fault, I would have no problem recommending any of the three.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. In a nutshell, I should be able to carry on as before

and the addy should work. Is that what I hear you saying?

come to think of it, when our dsl provider, Frontier, dropped its email service and hosted instead via Yahoo's cloud
2 years ago
I did not change anything. And still get the same frontier email in my Evolution program on home computer.

frontier SAID we should change, and SAID we should create an account on Yahoo. It never told us we could even link any Yahoo ( or any email acocunt) to our home email program.
I got pissed and got Opera, hooked it up to my home email, and left frontier alone, did not do a damn thing,
and the emails still came into that folder as always.
Hmmmmmmmmm.

I was pissed at Frontier for the change, since I did not want to use Yahoo mail, not Hotmail, nor Gmail.
I liked having this lil dinky out of the way hole in the wall dsl/email service.
but I also want a personal addy as well as a "shopping" addy.