Yahoo

[bigred]

So, it seems as if they just got busted for working with FBI/NSA to custom build a scanning program to screen all yahoo email. Some of you are more savvy than I. Is it likely that all email providers are doing something similar or is yahoo just particularly vile?
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/04/yaho...tomer-emails-for-us-intelligence-reuters.html

 

[squirt]

Damn. Looks like all the grandparents who still use Yahoo mail will have to worry about the security of their stupid forwarded jokes and chain emails.

 

[p m]

Combined with the most-massive customer data security breach, yeah, Yahoo must go.
Too bad the others will eventually follow suit.

 

[discostew]

I have an old yahoo mail account that I've had since about 1998. I remember sending an email to my sister saying a car I was driving would blow up soon. It was knocking and I was driving it till it let go. It was soon after 9-11. That e mail with the words BLOW UP, disappeared for a day or so and got delivered after something I sent to her after that message. So this isn't new, I always thought that message got flagged for that phrase and delivered after it was checked out.

 

[Jimmy]

Damn. Looks like all the grandparents who still use Yahoo mail will have to worry about the security of their stupid forwarded jokes and chain emails.

:rofl: :applause:

 

[SCSL]

Is it likely that all email providers are doing something similar....?

Yes.

 

[jim-00-4.6]

Yes.

What he said.

 

[chris snell]

I've been off Yahoo for years--signed up for GMail on the first day of the private beta--but I've been planning on moving my stuff to my own domain and hosting it here:

https://www.fastmail.com

It makes more sense to use your own domain because if your provider ever goes to shit, you can pick up your domain and take it elsewhere.

 

[garrett]

I've been off Yahoo for years--signed up for GMail on the first day of the private beta--but I've been planning on moving my stuff to my own domain and hosting it here:

https://www.fastmail.com

It makes more sense to use your own domain because if your provider ever goes to shit, you can pick up your domain and take it elsewhere.

I can't imagine Google going away anytime soon. I have my personal and work email with Google and my work domain pointed to the work one. And I work with a few companies that have online calendars that will copy to my Google calendar for me too. I just like that I can access those via apps quickly on the phone, while I'm chatting with someone, etc. Everything seems to have a good available app though.

I'm sure at some point this will all change and I'll be that old guy still using it when the cool kids will be on to something else. But for now it works great for me and the people I work with - except State Dept. - they are funny. Not haha funny.

 

[bigred]

Damn. Looks like all the grandparents who still use Yahoo mail will have to worry about the security of their stupid forwarded jokes and chain emails.

Thank goodness I still have my AOL account. Just can't figure out where that floppy disc thing is supposed to go.

 

[garrett]

Thank goodness I still have my AOL account. Just can't figure out where that floppy disc thing is supposed to go.

I think your wife knows.

PS: Maybe stare at that hot ass avatar you have. Might perk you up a little.

 

[bigred]

I think your wife knows.

PS: Maybe stare at that hot ass avatar you have. Might perk you up a little.

Now my pants feel tight. In the crotchitorial region.

 

[bigred]

ok, If I have a domain name and want to hang a few email accounts on it, what's the easiest / cheapest way to do it?

 

[chris snell]

I can't imagine Google going away anytime soon. I have my personal and work email with Google and my work domain pointed to the work one. And I work with a few companies that have online calendars that will copy to my Google calendar for me too. I just like that I can access those via apps quickly on the phone, while I'm chatting with someone, etc. Everything seems to have a good available app though.

I'm sure at some point this will all change and I'll be that old guy still using it when the cool kids will be on to something else. But for now it works great for me and the people I work with - except State Dept. - they are funny. Not haha funny.

The concern is not that Google will go away but rather, that their policies will become even more consumer-unfriendly. As it stands, they're already selling summarized data on your emails' content to advertisers. This is the principal advantage of Fastmail: you pay them for the mail service and they don't sell your data or show you ads.

 

[chris snell]

ok, If I have a domain name and want to hang a few email accounts on it, what's the easiest / cheapest way to do it?

Fastmail.

 

[bigred]

Fastmail.

Do they need to host the domain to do email or are the hosting / site / email all independent?

 

[ERover82]

Zoho

 

[chris snell]

Do they need to host the domain to do email or are the hosting / site / email all independent?

No, the DNS can all be done separately from the mail hosting. Wherever you are hosting your website (or your DNS, if a different provider), you just add the appropriate "MX" and "SPF" records for the mail provider. The mail provider will give these to you when you set up your account. It's quite common to keep a website with one provider and email at another.