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RE: what is the best email provider
July 24, 2021 at 9:56 pm
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(July 24, 2021 at 11:20 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (July 24, 2021 at 4:26 am)gd3001 Wrote: Rap music isn't that bad...well mainstream mostly is. Sorry if you took me litreally. I was writing without speaking
thanks!!! and I love your signature. my dad is an engineer.
I'll prob use it as a browser. I have no idea what postbox or Imap even is....
Using on the browser is fine, but you do get to see adverts, using Postbox (or any other email client like Thunderbird) means the emails can be saved on your computer so you can read them even if you are off line, you also don't get to see the adverts!
IMAP is just the way the email client downloads the emails from the server, works well if you read your emails on several computers, they stay sychronised so you don't need to think "did I save that email on this PC or the other one?"
Any probs setting it up drop me a PM I may be able to help
postbox sounds like a really good idea. Thank you so much.
(July 24, 2021 at 12:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Since you’re 15 and likely still at school, have you considered forgetting about email and buying yourself a snowy owl?
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I wish. My whole school is obessed with email. Well the teachers are.
I just need to have an email just in case. I'm not going to be using it much, but I want something encrypted.
(July 24, 2021 at 3:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I know people still use e-mail, but with the age of PM like Facebook and Twitter, and other social media, and phone texting, I don't get it. I haven't used e-mail for years. you are lucky.... so much of business, education, etc, is based completly off email, at least where I live.
it's horrible. anyway I think I'm going to get a proton mail acc or do the postbox thing
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 24, 2021 at 10:25 pm
(July 24, 2021 at 3:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I know people still use e-mail, but with the age of PM like Facebook and Twitter, and other social media, and phone texting, I don't get it. I haven't used e-mail for years.
Email is important in business to keep a trail of correspondence.
Since you don't happen to work I am sure that social media fills your needs.
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 24, 2021 at 11:37 pm
I find that Gmail does everything I need it to do. It's rare that I get spam, and when I do it's usually because someone else's e-mail got contaminated and started spamming people in their address book.
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 25, 2021 at 4:39 am
(July 24, 2021 at 3:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I know people still use e-mail, but with the age of PM like Facebook and Twitter, and other social media, and phone texting, I don't get it. I haven't used e-mail for years.
I use text and Whatsapp occasionally, never had a fakebook or twatter account (never saw the point) if I need to tell someone something or send a picture or document email works fine, no need to splatter my crap all over the internet
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 25, 2021 at 11:31 am
(July 24, 2021 at 1:46 am)gd3001 Wrote: I have a gmail acc, but I hate it. It's full of spam and it feels like death to use. Outlook I have to use for school, and it's even worse. Besides, I read that Google could read your emails. Fantastic!!!!
No email provider is immune from spam, and I find that Gmail is so far the best with dealing with spam and unwanted email - you just filter it/ block it.
Although lately, I have been getting hilarious but serious blackmail by anonymous people who claim to have hacked my cyber cam, and now they have photos and videos of me masturbating while watching internet porn and how they will give it to everyone I know unless I give them bitcoins.
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 25, 2021 at 12:58 pm
(July 24, 2021 at 1:46 am)gd3001 Wrote: I have a gmail acc, but I hate it. It's full of spam and it feels like death to use. Outlook I have to use for school, and it's even worse. Besides, I read that Google could read your emails. Fantastic!!!!
My dad says proton mail, but apparently it's very slow. Do you have any other suggestions? I won't be using it very much. I actually dislike emails, I like writing letters to my friends or calling them on the phone, and i have a discord account, but I don't use it much. Discord is too smug for me. Sorry that sounds really weird.
Also, for search. I use duckduckgo. Is this good or not? Sorry. I don't know anything about computers.
Thank you
I can see e-mail for business reasons. But with the age of text on cell phones and PM on social media, I find it old. I can't remember the last time I ever read or composed an e-mail. I do all my bill paying over the phone, or in person. Outside that, all the people I know are lagit PM me through social media like FB or Twitter.
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RE: what is the best email provider
July 25, 2021 at 1:22 pm
(July 25, 2021 at 12:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (July 24, 2021 at 1:46 am)gd3001 Wrote: I have a gmail acc, but I hate it. It's full of spam and it feels like death to use. Outlook I have to use for school, and it's even worse. Besides, I read that Google could read your emails. Fantastic!!!!
My dad says proton mail, but apparently it's very slow. Do you have any other suggestions? I won't be using it very much. I actually dislike emails, I like writing letters to my friends or calling them on the phone, and i have a discord account, but I don't use it much. Discord is too smug for me. Sorry that sounds really weird.
Also, for search. I use duckduckgo. Is this good or not? Sorry. I don't know anything about computers.
Thank you
I can see e-mail for business reasons. But with the age of text on cell phones and PM on social media, I find it old. I can't remember the last time I ever read or composed an e-mail. I do all my bill paying over the phone, or in person. Outside that, all the people I know are lagit PM me through social media like FB or Twitter.
Duckduck go is a fairly secure search engine (especially when compared to Google)
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