OT: alternative to Gmail?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 23:52 -0600, Default User wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 23:24, Ioannis Vranos
> <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
>         
>         On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 23:14 -0600, Default User wrote:
>         > I am looking for an alternative to Gmail.  I find it
>         surprisingly
>         > difficult and temperamental (for example, I can't just sort
>         the inbox
>         > messages by sender).  And Google seems to be getting way
>         "too big for
>         > its britches".  The "last straw" was that they are
>         apparently trying
>         > to force users of Gmail to have a cell phone and to use that
>         just to
>         > use Gmail (2-factor authentication).
>         >
>         > That is unacceptable (and also some other words not fit for
>         polite
>         > company).  No, I will NOT use an email service that requires
>         a cell
>         > phone to send/receive email, and I sure wouldn't give a
>         phone number
>         > to Google.
>         >
>         > So, any suggestions for alternative email services?
>         
>         
>         
>         Do you need it to be web based?
>         
>         
>         No, it doesn't have to be, but if it is, I won't have to set
>         up / administer a separate email application program.  OTOH, I
>         do fret about my email being stored "out there in the
>         cloud" . . . 


Previously someone said that the mobile phone thing in GMail is
optional.

Additionally GMail provides the ability to retrieve your emails in an
email application via POP3 and IMAP.

If you do not like any of these, another popular web email service is
hotmail.




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