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Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:04:48 +1100
Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:

> On 26.11.18 21:12, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500
> > Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
> > > Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old 
> > 
> > Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage
> > for old emails?
> 
> There are various values for old and limited, in reality. When I'm out
> of town for a fortnight, there's usually 1500 to 2k emails piled up on
> the ISP's mailhost. Fortunately only a small subset of them are over 1
> MB in size.
> 
> It is fortunately rare for ISPs to block multi-megabyte emails now that
> we've left the old millennium behind, as I'm in the process of building,
> and local authorities, building surveyors, fire authorities, etc.,
> mostly issue their documents by email now.
> 
> Still, a few hundred MB usually does it for the fortnight, and the
> longer absence over the new year is an email drought, so size would be
> similar.
> 
> Those who leave read mail on the ISP's mailhost, due to accessing from
> multiple client hosts, are at greater risk of exceeding their quota, and
> would naturally look for some extra, I figure.

Understood. But the big players - Gmail, Yahoo - are probably the ones
offering the largest amount of storage, whether you're accessing the
mail via POP3 / IMAP or the webmail interface.

Celejar

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Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> - 2018-11-26 15:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> - 2018-11-26 16:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-11-26 16:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-26 17:30 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-26 16:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-26 23:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-27 03:30 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 04:00 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-11-27 14:50 +0100
            Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 15:20 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-27 15:50 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 20:40 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-27 04:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> - 2018-11-29 09:10 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-11-26 16:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-11-26 17:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-26 17:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-26 17:30 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Cunningham <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2018-11-26 17:40 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-27 04:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-27 05:10 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 07:30 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-27 19:30 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> - 2018-11-27 10:00 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 05:10 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-07 11:10 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-07 15:40 +0100
  <<SOLVED>> Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service mark@neidorff.com - 2018-12-10 16:20 +0100

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