I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

[cheapie]

...so I made my own (Yes, I know that Gmail is OK, and I was using that before, but I'm trying to move away from Google). I'm using a domain name (cheapie.us) that I had doing nothing useful, and I installed Postfix and Dovecot on the home server. By the way, just knowing the domain name and my username here should be enough to guess the address (if you're a human, anyway. Bots tend to have a harder time with that).

[Topcat]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

good spam filters will take care of that.....and not filter out legit stuff. I haven't used any email service since the mid 90's. Always hosted my own. For webmail, I use squirrelmail. its short and sweet....no fuss, no muss, and clean. POP3 with outlook is still it for me. Webmail when I'm away from home.

[mariushm]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

That's good for receiving mail.

Just be careful because some mail servers refuse to receive mails from home user IPs and make sure you have reverse dns and domainkeys or at least the simpler SPF standard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail

Yes, all my email is on my own personal domain and have email server on a dedicated server.. checking mail through encrypted links directly in Thunderbird.

A domain name is cheap, 10-12$ a year... less than a sandwich a month.
A shared hosting account can be as cheap as 1$ a month...no excuse to depend on free email hosting.

[SeanB]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

I am using a shared server at my ISP to host a instance of outlook ( shared with the other users, but my own domain) and it is pretty cheap to run . Port 25 is not reliable here as the infrastructure owner does port blocking and you have to live with it or pay for a business connection at the going rate. If I was going to host it myself I would use another method, though the spam filter I get from the ISP is pretty good, greylisting gets of a lot of the junk and the other filters get the rest.

[c_hegge]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

good spam filters will take care of that.....and not filter out legit stuff. I haven't used any email service since the mid 90's. Always hosted my own. For webmail, I use squirrelmail. its short and sweet....no fuss, no muss, and clean. POP3 with outlook is still it for me. Webmail when I'm away from home.

This. That's what I do for HWI.

[momaka]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

I'm still using Yahoo!, just because I have too much stuff that I just don't want to transfer over to another email. But I really will switch for something else one of these days if Yahoo! continues to do what they're doing.
For one thing, I really hate their flash interface - it is SLOW and resource-intensive! Google is alright in that regard (when you change the default settings), but who knows for how long.

[Kiriakos GR]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

if Yahoo! continues to do what they're doing.

Google & Yahoo read your emails.
Yes it is those days in the News.

We read them so to be aware of your likes.. for our advertisers.

[momaka]

Re: I got tired of there not being any good, free email services...

Yeah, I'm aware of that. Good luck trying to sell me anything that I don't want or need . Also, ABP does a decent job of blocking their stupid ads for me.