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12 Jun 2020, 02:59 PM | #1 |
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email on my domain vs other providers
hello everybody,
I planned for a while now to move all my email account toward more reliable providers (from yahoo, yes I know..). I have my own domain that I plan to keep and few email made there.
and if you would advice against moving it all to my private domain emails,
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12 Jun 2020, 05:41 PM | #2 | |
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Your subject: "email on my domain vv other providers" is a little confusing. Do you mean that "your domain" is somehow tied to a specific provider? If the domain really does belong to you, then it is not provider-specific. Also: "How can I check are those emails on my private domain safe?" What do you mean by "safe"? Do you mean that if you move mail hosting from one provider to another, will emails stored on the servers of the first provider still be on the first provider's system? |
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18 Jun 2020, 06:24 PM | #4 |
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So far, you've talked about "all my email account", Yahoo, simply.com and not explained what services you actually have at each place.
You talk about "addons" getting infected. Although I see (from Google) that simply.com is a /web/ host rather than an email hosting company (though maybe they also host mail rather than just forward it elsewhere?) I suppose that means that you had a wordpress(?) website hosted with them? But I'm guessing, and I should not have to. You should explain precisely what you do at the moment, and what you want to know. As for free services - I have no idea. I believe that generally you get what you pay for. If you use a free service there's little chance that the supplier will look into any problems you have. They may care from their point of view about their system being hacked, or they might not care at all. With a decent-quality paid-for service one generally gets technical support who /do/ care and will investigate problems. I use Fastmail (and another company in the UK who're mainly an ISP but do host mail too). In both cases I picked them after looking in detail at reviews online, noting other people's email addresses (ie realising they were using FM), and looking eg at the Q&A in the forums here. For the UK company ... they were one with an active usenet support group and their tech staff posted there and discussed technical issues - and it was clear that they understood the tech, and were not just sales people. They also (like FM) are politically active (resisting governmental attempts to snoop on email contents) and interested in internet standards (eg by contributing to RFCs). In other words I looked for people doing email as well as they could, not necessarily those with trendy marketing. |
19 Jun 2020, 01:44 AM | #5 |
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You can never "know" that your data is safe when hosted on a third party's computer. However, you can control the security of your passwords. Don't reuse the same password everywhere, for example. Don't use email providers that you don't trust, and figure out what things you need to know to trust them so you have a list of demands to compare against service providers.
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19 Jun 2020, 04:24 PM | #7 |
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thank you all for your input and my apologies for the confusing explanation I gave you.
JeremyNicoll it's my lack of understanding of the topic and you've been right about your assumptions - I have a wordpress website and I'm really not sure how it's all connected. I'll go and educate myself. Thanks again. |
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