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Re: Simple Free Email Address

Hi Paul,
Not certain if this will provide what you need. still there is a service called sdf. 
www.sdf.org
Its a very long standing free service providing everything from shell accounts to email and so forth. 
Perhaps worth considering.
In joy,
Kare



On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, Paul M. Foster wrote:


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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