[Discuss] standalone email alternatives

[Darren Duncan]

I considered having one's own domain name, or several, to be very important, so 
for myself personally, and my parents' and each of our businesses, we spent very 
little time in the early stage of my email is my ISP or my email is my school 
etc, that stage was about 2 years 1997-1999, and we've had our own domains since 
then.

Well BareMetal.com is quite "family", its a local small business.  And while I 
recommend them, if you have your own domain, you can change service providers 
any time you want without having to change your address.

-- Darren Duncan

On 2023-08-31 7:06 p.m., Terry M wrote:
> That sounds promising, thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> I'm looking for a 'family' solution, not an corporate one, but I guess
> that a handful of email addresses is probably the same either way,
> ditto if we go the 'get our own domain' route, especially if we want
> for example a joint email that autoforwards to the individual accounts
> (which Shaw can't do, and it took a bit of effort to get across to them
> that that's what we wanted before they conceded that it didn't work).
> 
> The goal is primarily to break the link between ISP and email
> addresses.  I responded to another post using 'positive' vs 'negative'
> driver for wanting to change, this is a 'negative' driver (want to be
> able to drop Rogers, especially if they decide to forcibly change my
> email).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net>
> Reply-To: discuss at vlug.org
> To: discuss at vlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] standalone email alternatives
> Date: 2023-08-31 06:41:06 PM
> 
> I have used local Victoria company https://baremetal.com for this since
> 1999 and
> they have been working quite well.  They can handle the registration of
> your own
> domain and have an email forwarding service or an email hosting service
> to
> choose from, so you get your stable email either way. -- Darren Duncan
> 
> On 2023-08-31 5:43 p.m., Terry M wrote:
>> Quick question (looking for 'five second answers') ... my ISP
>> (formerly
>> shaw, "at this time your email will not change", which sounds
>> devious)
>> is likely going to force my email (and family emails) to change,
>> which
>> is a chore.  If I don't go the hotmail/yahoo/gmail route, what are
>> options for 'pure email providers' of either
>> "myname at stable-provider.com", or "me at my-domain.ca (hosted with
>> 'stable-
>> provider)" Any TLD, though .ca preferred, with minimal cost for
>> setting
>> up / maintaining mydomain.  For-pay is ok, though obviously I'd like
>> to
>> keep it down (if I wanted free, I'd probably settle on gmail etc.).
>>
>> (at a later time I will crab at length about how my email/contact is
>> liable to be destabilized and (ab)used for someone else's marketing).
>>
>> This is a quick question and I may have flaky access in the next
>> short
>> while.  '5 seconds' means a quick referral, not asking for googling
>> on
>> my behalf!