[GTALUG] alternatives to gmail working well in Ubintu?

Sat Nov 16 08:30:11 EST 2019

Hi Karen,

I'm not sure if I fully understand your requirements.

But I myself went through a very long and arduous search for an email hosting service provider a few years ago, when AT&T shut down their email hosting service,

I decided to register my own domain name so that I would never ever again have to fo thorugh the huge task of notifying recipients of the change in my emaii address. And not go through the even more onerous task of upating numerous online services and forums where I am registered through my email address.

For sure you would be wise  to get away from an evil player like Google. Make competition work for you by going with a  large established provider, but not a monstrous monopoly like Google.

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The task for me came down to finding a good reliable web hosting service that also offered email hosting.

Although there are many other equally great hosting services out there, I am happy I chose to use 

www.siteground.com

They are not the least expensive service but well worth the money I pay every month. Rock-solid reliable infrastructure and exceptionally literate and knowledgeable support team.

The spam filtering offered by Siteground as basic functionality works well for me. Never a false rejection of a legitimate email and very few spam-suspect-quarantined emails for me to handle.

Siteground provides a choice of three (3) HTML webmail user interfaces. I use RoundCube, the open source one, because I favour open source if at all possible. I use the Comodo Dragon web browser with RoundCube webmail interface, as Dragon seems to work better that Firefox.

Although I actually fetch all my emails via POP3 and keep them on my local PC, I also use the Siteground webmail interface as a backup and to help me with issues when MS Outlook Express on WIn XP mysteriously fails to fetch the occasional email via POP3.

I acces RoundCube webmail from an ancient Dell Win XP PC, using a slow dialup landline modem. The low screen resolution is not a problem. I'm somewhat sight-impaired so I zoom in a little for better readability. 

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I am now working to migrate off the Win XP PC to a new PC running debian Linux.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Steve

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Steve Petrie, P.Eng.

Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(905) 847-3253
apetrie at aspetrie.net

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Lewellen via talk 
  To: Evan Leibovitch 
  Cc: Karen Lewellen ; GTALUG Talk 
  Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:53 PM
  Subject: Re: [GTALUG] alternatives to gmail working well in Ubintu?

  Hi Evan
  I am using Pine to write this e-mail as Shellworld makes it available.
  Again, for this  gmail address , I prefer Google's front 
  end.
  I actually cannot add an extra client to this shell service as it 
  functions more  as an iSP.
  Thanks,
  Karen

  On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

  > Hi Karen,
  >
  > I haven't done this in a while from a desktop, but the access from
  > Thunderbird etc to Gmail is not done through screen readers but rather the
  > venerable IMAP protocol which is supported.
  > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en
  > This is most commonly used by mobile, where there are a number of email
  > interfaces that people may prefer to Gmail's front end. Even Outlook for
  > Android supports this.
  >
  > From a low-graphics PoV I have to go back to my brain's archives, but there
  > are still readers out there that don't require a GUI. My old favourite
  > "Pine" is no longer under development but its successor and a few others
  > are.
  > https://fedoramagazine.org/3-cool-text-based-email-clients/
  >
  > HTH,
  >
  > - Evan
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:25, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
  > wrote:
  >
  >> sorry James, i did not realize you were using adaptive technology.
  >> May I ask how you will manage once Google, as they plan, block all third
  >> party  screen readers?
  >> Sorry if I seem frustrated, but I asked a very specific question, not to
  >> have   my choices dismissed because you do things differently.
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, James Knott via talk wrote:
  >>
  >>> On 2019-11-14 10:00 PM, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
  >>>>  I was going to just ask for alternatives to consider, but want to keep
  >> the
  >>>>  Linux element here as I mainly use a Ubuntu shell.
  >>>>  Now that google is making it  profoundly difficult reaching basic html
  >> in
  >>>>  low graphics environments, I may need a new home.  I prefer reading on
  >>>>  the web for this account, especially as I use it largely for research
  >>>>  needing to follow article links and work with file attachments.
  >>>>  Any solid ideas?
  >>>
  >>> I prefer using an email client such as Seamonkey or Thunderbird, to a
  >>> browser.  They work fine.
  >>>
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