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Today's going to be a fun day
« on September 11th, 2011, 01:35 PM »
For years, I've held an account at my first proper paid webhosting service, and they've run my email ever since - that's since 2003.

When I joined them, everything was fantastic, service was prompt and I couldn't recommend them enough. But over the last couple of years they've really gone downhill, and today was the final straw.

For 24 hours straight, the email server's been down, the web-mail login is broken because they didn't set it up properly, that is assuming I'm willing to overlook the fact that they're using self-signed certificates for all their servers... I say servers, but I think they only have one server these days.

Since my old old old site is virtually non existent anyway, I'm now in the process of migrating the email to another provider, and moving the website to my VPS. Given the hoops I've had to jump through to get my old email archive given that their mail service is broken, I can see today is going to be a very, very long day :(
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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #2, on September 11th, 2011, 02:59 PM »
Not a chance, no. Been there, done that, don't like GMail for a bunch of reasons.

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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #4, on September 11th, 2011, 03:43 PM »
It would mean tying my computer into the Googleplex more than it already is. Why would I want to give them personally identifiable details tied to all my searches?

You know, also that G+ issues have caused peoples' accounts to be frozen, why would I risk that? (Not that I've done anything to prompt it, but given the kinds of insanity that Google are doing at the moment, why would I even go near doing that when I can for less hassle go elsewhere and get a service that's closer to what I want and need.)

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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #7, on September 11th, 2011, 04:31 PM »
I've given it a try and I can honestly say I don't like it. In any case, I use Thunderbird primarily for managing email.

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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #10, on September 11th, 2011, 04:36 PM »
GMail is great, the only problem I have with GMail is that it's does not support multiple mail forwarding.  I only use Outlook just to do multiple mail forwarding.

Also I can access GMail on my iPhone via MS Exchange.

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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #11, on September 11th, 2011, 04:51 PM »
Quote from Arantor on September 11th, 2011, 04:32 PM
Yes, he was referring to the "+ mail client" part, I think.
You kind of lost me. What I was saying was : Gmail coupled with a mail client like thunderbird, outlook, apple mail, KMail etc is a very nice combination because gmail has a reliable service and it supports ms exchange.
Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #12, on September 11th, 2011, 06:58 PM »
The main thing that I'm starting to dislike about Google's services is that everything is tied to one central account. While this is not a bad thing most of the time, it does prevent me from having another Gmail address. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I love using Gmail, but I can't use it for all of my needs. I can't have a personal Gmail address, one to give out to employers and other professionals, and one to give out to services that require an email address. And after trying to create a dummy account to tie to an email it seems that they deleted it.

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Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #13, on September 11th, 2011, 07:00 PM »
I have two e-mail addresses at gmail, maybe their policy was different in the past... I'm still using only one of them though, and using the other as a privacy tool.
Re: Today's going to be a fun day
« Reply #14, on September 11th, 2011, 07:11 PM »
I think it was changed. When I was researching how to do it all of the solutions were just very inconvenient solutions that required the use of an email account somewhere else anyways. It's a shame, really.
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