There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch! What did you think would happen with large free email hosts? They round up all the clients and then do what they like with them.
Google mines emails for data. I use a private (paid) service via my web site host. I’ve been using it since around 1996. They haven’t changed much over the decades and they do NOT mine my emails! > On Jun 10, 2022, at 10:01 PM, Carlos Murillo via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > My apologies for asking such an OT question, but I think you guys are the > most likely to make really useful suggestions. > > Gmail has ceased to provide classic authorization for smtp, pop3 or IMAP > access; they want users to employ their new authorization mechanisms. So, > which email service do you guys recommend? I'd like to be able to access it > in the old classic way, from different clients. Ideally it would be a free > service (I don't store my messages on the server, but rather, download them > to my client, so I don't need a lot of storage), and also likely to remain > in operation for many years to come. > > Thanks in advance, > > Carlos Murillo.
