Simple Free Email Address
Folks:
I have to set up an email address in order to administer some websites
for a client. This email address must be with a provider not hosted on
my principal domain's hosting computers. I'm running Thunderbird on
Debian Trixie. I'm based in the U.S.
NONE of the major providers appear to work. I have a gmail address. But
for reasons beyond me, I can't send email from my main email address to
it. They don't show up. Worse, every way I try to set this up in
Thunderbird, it won't finish setting up the account.
AOL and Yahoo appear to be on the same servers, using the same software.
After I gave them all my data to set up accounts, they thought for a
minute, then told me they couldn't set up my account based on what I
gave them. No explanation why.
Protonmail appears to want to run some daemon in the background; the
connection parameters to their service involve the IP 127.0.0.1.
Mail.com: POP3 and IMAP are *premium* services (= paid).
Zoho: excludes POP3 and IMAP from their free alternatives.
Fastmail is paid.
It appears there are an abundance of alternatives, all of whom want you
to use their particular webmail version, along with calendars, contact
lists, etc. Walled gardens.
I just need a free email address, preferably with POP3 which works with
Thunderbird, or IMAP if I have to. I'd appreciate any assistance along
these lines.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster
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