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Posted September 13, 2015
What is M$?
Posted September 13, 2015
I like Gmail personally.
Posted September 13, 2015
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Elenarie: What is M$?
We have had this discussion before.
Posted September 13, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Text
You could try Protonmail.

Personally I've been using hotmail since 2006 and I've linked all my gmails to it. Never had any problems with it.
Posted September 13, 2015
I chose Gmail after starting with a Yahoo account and I haven't looked back since.

But these days I've been using Inbox by gmail.
Post edited September 13, 2015 by Darvond
Posted September 14, 2015
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Smannesman: If you're very private and a bit geeky, you could always run your own server :P
That’s what I do, and there’s no way I could go back to using the "free" services of these shady corporations.
While setting up a mail server can sound a bit out of reach for someone new to all this, it’s actually a very low maintenance task. Plus there’s tons of guides and people ready to help on the subject out there on Internet.
Post edited September 14, 2015 by vv221
Posted September 14, 2015
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Elenarie: What is M$?
Mega dollars, as in one million dollars.

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nightcraw1er.488: We have had this discussion before.
Who won?

Any bets who will win this time?
Post edited September 14, 2015 by timppu
Posted September 14, 2015
I've been using FastMail now for quite some time. It's not free, but I like their service. It also lets me synchronize my contacts and calendar from my phone.

I just prefer using a paid service instead of free providers. Makes me feel better about my privacy.
Posted September 14, 2015
Gmail, GMX and OpenMailBox are among my personal favourites. Yahoo isn't bad, but I feel they fucked up as much as microsoft with the "new" style.
Posted September 14, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: So, does anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement web mail? I know gmail, which is ok as long as you don't have anything you don't want the entire population of the US to read. The others seem to be either plagued by bad interfaces, or poor support (looking at GMX comments here), or completely awash with adverts. .
No "free" service is really trustworthy and yeah, GMX is absolutely terrible. You will always pay with your data. I'm using https://posteo.de/en myself, https://mailbox.org/en/ is another great (German) alternative. Got to pay 1€ a month but my privacy is much mor worth than that. You can also try one of the alternatives suggested by PRISM-Break: https://prism-break.org/en/categories/windows/#email-accounts. here's another list of trustworthy mail providers: http://prxbx.com/email/
Post edited September 14, 2015 by ShadowOwl
Posted September 14, 2015
The new Outlook updates are designed to make the interface more tablet/phone friendly. I really hate the craze to make websites compatible with all devices. I understand why websites want to do that, of course, but these changes generally represent a regression in design/ functionality in every way that is not directly related to tablets/phones. Some of my annoyance surely comes from the fact that I use my laptop and a work computer almost exclusively to browse the internet, so it's frustrating that website design is being optimized for devices other than the ones I use. Nevertheless, people who want to use their phones for anything more than the occasional Google search or email check are crazy and should've upgraded to a bigger screen for most of their business if at all possible.
Posted September 14, 2015
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infinityeight: The new Outlook updates are designed to make the interface more tablet/phone friendly. I really hate the craze to make websites compatible with all devices. I understand why websites want to do that, of course, but these changes generally represent a regression in design/ functionality in every way that is not directly related to tablets/phones. Some of my annoyance surely comes from the fact that I use my laptop and a work computer almost exclusively to browse the internet, so it's frustrating that website design is being optimized for devices other than the ones I use. Nevertheless, people who want to use their phones for anything more than the occasional Google search or email check are crazy and should've upgraded to a bigger screen for most of their business if at all possible.
Yes, I can understand that they want to appeal to the large market of tablet/mobile users, and that is fine. However they have not done that. The new outlook doesn't work or only partly works on my windows phone/IE. So in effect this is rubbish on pc/table/mobile now. Its hardly surprising seeing certain design and political choices made by the company since Gates left. As a long time (I mean since the good old days of DOS) user of M$ products its quite disappointing.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, it will take me some time to go through each one and assess them, but thanks again for all the advice.
Posted September 14, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, it will take me some time to go through each one and assess them, but thanks again for all the advice.
Interestingly Linux Action Show has a bit about one of the hosts moving away from Gmail this week.
Post edited September 14, 2015 by Smannesman
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