OT: Best Free Email (POP Only)

[Jim Thompson]

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Wanderer]

On Saturday, November 8, 2014 11:19:48 AM UTC-5, Jim Thompson wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

It's not free, but I use the $6.95/month dialup4less plan. I was using them for dial up when I started using broadband and never changed my email address. No complaints for at least 10 years now.

 

[rickman]

On 11/8/2014 11:19 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

Are you hosting through your ISP? If not they shouldn't be messing with
your mail.

I have an unlimited hosting account with eboundhost.com and can do a
million different things with my email. I can use spam filtering or not
or redirect it through Google to act as a spam filter, which is what I
do.

If you are looking for inexpensive hosting, I would be willing to give
you a free account under my hosting. I already do this for a number of
my friends. Check out coldwatersafety.org.

--

Rick

 

[DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUn]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> Gave us:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

If you have an android type phone, you likely already have a gmail
account. Perhaps that would facilitate a way to filter by source, thus
making it easy for you to tell which are web site related. Especially
if you do not actually already use the account. I do not know what
filtration features it has. Likely varies from device to device.

 

[Martin Riddle]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Maybe Outlook.com. We have the hosted exchange and spam is really at
a minimum, with virtually no false positives. You can set it up for
POP.
The Ad-Free outlook is $20/yr, it was hotmail-plus.


Cheers

 

[qrk]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

--
Mark

 

[rickman]

On 11/8/2014 1:25 PM, qrk wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

$10 a month is pricey. I believe I am paying $60 a year for unlimited
domain hosting and have some half dozen accounts hosted. At one time I
was hosting gnuarm.com and used over a TB of bandwidth per month.

--

Rick

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:25:33 -0800, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

Hey, Mark How goes it? Still "pinging" ;-)

Cox must be leftist... all this nanny-state nonsense >:-}

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Spend a few bucks a month and do it right.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:57:46 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Spend a few bucks a month and do it right.

Real helpful, John =D> Spend it where?

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[David Brown]

On 08/11/14 17:19, Jim Thompson wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

Why POP? The only use of POP is in fetchmail scripts to then pass on
the mail to a proper mailserver (as an alternative to setting up a
mailserver that will receive the mail directly). POP is a hopeless
choice if you are using a mail client - with normal setups, the single
client pulls everything off the server. That means you can only connect
one machine to the account, and when that machine fails or corrupts its
mailfile, you have lost everything. (You can, in theory, leave mail
undeleted on the server - but with POP that brings its own problems.)

I would /never/ recommend POP - use IMAP (or exchange, if you can't
avoid it).

So with that in mind, you could do far worse than a gmail account - it
is reliable, easy to use, works fine with IMAP, and has a workable web
interface for when you need it.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:38:49 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:57:46 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Spend a few bucks a month and do it right.

Real helpful, John =D> Spend it where?

...Jim Thompson

On an ISP that has real customer support, and provides Spam Gauntlet.

SG quarantines and then deletes about 97% of my email, all the spam,
with zero false positives and only a few marginal cases leaking
through.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2014-11-08, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

Ever hear of "mail.analog-innovations.com"?
is so explain why it's not a good solution.
if not you should definatily ask someone who knows about it.

it's already got a pop-3 server installed, you probably just need
to setup the mailboxes not forward to your ISP and point your mail
client at it.

--
umop apisdn

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:46:40 +0100, David Brown
<david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 08/11/14 17:19, Jim Thompson wrote:
Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?


Why POP? The only use of POP is in fetchmail scripts to then pass on
the mail to a proper mailserver (as an alternative to setting up a
mailserver that will receive the mail directly). POP is a hopeless
choice if you are using a mail client - with normal setups, the single
client pulls everything off the server. That means you can only connect
one machine to the account, and when that machine fails or corrupts its
mailfile, you have lost everything. (You can, in theory, leave mail
undeleted on the server - but with POP that brings its own problems.)

I would /never/ recommend POP - use IMAP (or exchange, if you can't
avoid it).

So with that in mind, you could do far worse than a gmail account - it
is reliable, easy to use, works fine with IMAP, and has a workable web
interface for when you need it.

POP works fine for me, with Thunderbird. Most of my PCs are set to
"leave messages on server" and my main PC is set to "delete after 30
days".

I only keep one PC neat, with all my mail nicely sorted and trimmed.
Now and then I copy the Tbird profiles from that one to all the messy
satellites.

I back up Profiles daily to a terabyte USB drive.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:58:01 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:38:49 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:57:46 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Spend a few bucks a month and do it right.

Real helpful, John =D> Spend it where?

...Jim Thompson

On an ISP that has real customer support, and provides Spam Gauntlet.

SG quarantines and then deletes about 97% of my email, all the spam,
with zero false positives and only a few marginal cases leaking
through.

I don't have a _spam_ problem, I have a problem with a jerk-off ISP
that marks anything commercial as spam... in the subject line... which
is a royal nuisance.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[RobertMacy]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@on-my-web-site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

free?
I use google's gmail for this. so far not much spam makes it to the
inbox. have set up for text only, which may help. Images are filled in
ONLY if you request, otherwise I get a lot of boxes and text.

With a google account you can also get voice line/mail. VERY cheap
international calls, like $0.02/min to Brazil vs ?? free domestic calls,
anywhere. And the capability for voice to text conversion and then google
voice sends you THAT voice message as an email. Good for record keeping.


for cheap?
Call BasicISP.net

BasicISP.net (800) 456-3118
PO Box 511
Mount Vernon, OH 43050


EVERYTIME I call them I reach a US citizen/person who gives knowledgeable
help. basic access on the order of $90/yr ?? so far NO spam makes it to
my INBOX.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:25:33 -0800, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Works... bypasses the Cox a..holes.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[qrk]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:42:04 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:25:33 -0800, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

Hey, Mark How goes it? Still "pinging" ;-)

Cox must be leftist... all this nanny-state nonsense >:-}

...Jim Thompson

Yo Jim,
Still pinging away, but moved the company to Austin, TX 1.5 years ago.
Kind of a poopoo hole compared to SB.

--
Mark

 

[default]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:07:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:58:01 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:38:49 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:57:46 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Spend a few bucks a month and do it right.

Real helpful, John =D> Spend it where?

...Jim Thompson

On an ISP that has real customer support, and provides Spam Gauntlet.

SG quarantines and then deletes about 97% of my email, all the spam,
with zero false positives and only a few marginal cases leaking
through.

I don't have a _spam_ problem, I have a problem with a jerk-off ISP
that marks anything commercial as spam... in the subject line... which
is a royal nuisance.

...Jim Thompson
I like fastmail.com, $10/year

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:57:51 -0800, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:42:04 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:25:33 -0800, qrk <SpamTrap@spam.net> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:19:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

Cox is driving me nuts with their nanny-state behavior...

Their Spam trap only allows options on where to send the spam after
it's marked... no way to opt out of any marking... so just about
everything I receive is marked "-- Spam --" :-(

So I'm looking for a free Email service that I can forward Email to
from my website, then POP it to me.

Some service that won't stick ads into incoming mail.

Recommendations?

...Jim Thompson

Gmail has a pop/smtp service you can enable. Works fine. Only problem,
you need to go to their web interface to clean stuff out since the pop
service is limited in scope.

Another option is pick up a $10/mo service that allows you to host a
web site and use your own domain. They usually give you email service
that has limit control over what you can do. The one I use allows .exe
files which is important. Cox likes to filter everything.

Hey, Mark How goes it? Still "pinging" ;-)

Cox must be leftist... all this nanny-state nonsense >:-}

...Jim Thompson

Yo Jim,
Still pinging away, but moved the company to Austin, TX 1.5 years ago.
Kind of a poopoo hole compared to SB.

The snow must make it hard on your feet >:-}

Doing any chip designs?

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.