Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I got an email address with our local Internet provider, RoadRunner. They were then bought out by Spectrum. The email address is still there, but it's ability to interact with email apps on my PC has gradually degraded to the point that I can only get to it by webmail.
Webmail is a special kind of hell with Spectrum. Unlike gmail, everything goes so very, very slow and you're constantly afraid of something breaking down. Having an address book is out of the question.
My nom de plume, KT Cat, has a gmail address which works fine, but I don't want to give that out and share the knowledge that I'm some kind of crazed, neo-Confederate, judgmental, Catholic lunatic. I mean, I am all those things, but I don't want it generally known.
I'm looking for an email address that has a decent chance of surviving a decade or so, one that can be used with Thunderbird. I absolutely despise M$FT Outlook. My old email client, Eudora, died long ago, too. Oof.
Anywho, whatever suggestions you might have would be welcome.
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| A scene from the good old days when I could use Eudora to get my RoadRunner email. |
3 comments:
I'd forgotten about Eudora. I remember getting that and setting it up for our entire department at 3M. That was good email.
I never have used Thunderbird. Back at my former employeer, the dungeon masters, err IT people incharge of such things demanded the use of Outlook, and Internet Explorer. Like all good lefties, they hopped up and down screaming whenever Mozilla had a vulnerability. And were strangely quiet when IE had one.
Anyway, for work I use Outlook of course. I tried the update that came out a few months ago. Took less than a day to find the setting to switch back to classic mode, or whatever they call it.
Mostly, I use Gmail web on the PC, and gmail on the phone. It's not as good as Inbox was, when Google supported that, but it's ok.
I've recently started using Brave for a web browser. And until I found the switch, was heavy handed in selling every Ronco gadget ever made. Proton Mail (spelling might be wrong there), was one of them. I think it's a client that connects with others, and costs money. And protects you from the sun's harmful rays. Plus makes mounds of Julien fries!
Seriously though. With the the requirement that it doesn't go away anytime soon, you are really stuck with gmail, yahoo (Yeah, I know they've been on the brink of bankruptcy for 20 years), or M$FT.
Have you checked if your old university email is still active? It's only been 35 years or so.
I was thinking about Yahoo. It's easy to set up and I'd bet Thunderbird would work with it.
I don't want a second gmail account because I don't want the confusion about which persona is signed in at the moment.
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