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Is there an ISP with email services, maybe not webmail, in the US you would recommend for use on an iMac and iPhone?
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Don't know where you live, but where I live in the US, I don't have many choices in ISP (Internet Service Provider). Decouple your email from your ISP. Google Gmail works great in both macOS/iOS email clients and on the web.
x2 on Bigwaff's suggestions. Decoupling your email from ISP will give you a much wider choice of providers and hopefully keep you from ever having to do this again. I also use Google's gmail and have had no problems with it on iOS or Mac either w/ the native mail client or via webmail. For me, it's best handled the chronic amount of spam my email account gets. If I ever have a problem with gmail, my plan would be explore iCloud more. I have a secondary email account on there, but I haven't used it enough to have an opinion yet.
I would definitely look to use an email service, not use an ISP, add in the use of a custom domain and you have a completely portable email address. I use protonmail with a custom email address, and if I find myself dissatisfied with proton, I could easily move to a different provider without needing to notify countless people, and deal with businesses that have my old email
I thought I read to use Proton on a desktop computer a special app is needed and to use it on an iPhone different software is needed (without the special app for a desktop).
They have a thing called bridge so you can use outlook, but they have since came out with their own desktop mail app
I've had Yahoo since 1999. Works just fine on all my iDevices and Macs - although on my Macs I mainly access it via webmail.
I used Hover for a long time, but recently made the switch to Gmail due to some security issues and decreasing quality of spam prevention. I understand the desire to stay away from big companies but unfortunately they've become the default option for a reason, namely that the quality of service is so much higher for so little effort.
Maybe go with an iCloud address if you’re worried about Google's privacy policy?
Maybe go with an iCloud address if you’re worried about Google's privacy policy?
Apple is big, but since I already need an Apple icloud account, I use it for email too.
I understand the desire to stay away from the Googles of the world. But yeah, the days of using your ISP's email have passed (as have small ISPs themselves, in my experience).
I would strongly recommend Fastmail. They're small but have been around since the late 1990s. Service is actively maintained and developed. They've recently come up with their own native apps for iOS and macOS which seem pretty solid, and now have disposable email addresses. Their spam filtering is very strong and also quite customizable.
LOL, sorry for the hard pitch, but I've been a customer for many years and they're a great little company that JUST does email.
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There is some import tools, but i'm unsure of how flexible, and/or options you have.
We have several email addresses and two iMacs & two iPhones. Would that work?
Do you know many email addresses could we have? Several?
My local ISP gave a six month's warning that they are dropping email. There seems to be a lot of that going around.
There have been several mergers here and I can see why they might want to consolidate all the independent email addresses into one domain, but I wasn't expecting them to cancel the service.
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There's a Mac app as well -- though you could also just put your account details into Mail or whatever and use that.
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Thank you
Just curious, how is spam on Yahoo these days?
I used Yahoo in the 90s and got overwhelmed with spam.
Like many things, I assume it’s improved over the years.
I've noticed isp dropping email services similar to their dropping Usenet in the early 2000's. they share a common problem - costs without a revenue stream. I suppose given a mature or maturing industry we must expect this, and find an acceptable (as individuals) solution. by the way my email/isp provider site 1997 dropped the email service on a one month notice about 5 months ago (I wonder how the scammers who were filling my inbox have fared)