I'm losing my e-mail address on June 30. Need suggestions on what to do

[ron_newman]

Galaxy Internet Services, the company that has provided my e-mail service for over 16 years, announced last Friday that is is going out of business. I will suddenly lose my e-mail address, rnewman at theCIA.net , on June 30. I've had that address since May of 1997. I have no idea how many places I have registered that address with over the years -- LiveJournal, Facebook, Boston.com, my bank, utilities, lots of mailing lists....

So, I need a new POP and SMTP email provider, and I need it pretty fast. I probably should start giving out rnewman at alum.mit.edu as my new address, but that is only a forwarding service, not a mail server. Any ideas where I should go, either temporarily or 'permanently' ?

Several years ago, I registered a domain, RonNewman.info, but it is currently dormant. Ideally I should make that domain 'live' and somehow associate my e-mail with it, but I need a bit of advice and hand-holding from people who are more experienced with such things.

[Some background: I signed up with Complete Internet Access (TheCIA.net) as a dialup customer in 1997. Soon after that, Galaxy Internet Services acquired TheCIA.net, but kept it going as a separate service. In 2006 I upgraded from dialup to Galaxy's DSL. Last year, Galaxy offloaded all of their residential DSL customers to ExtremeDSL, but allowed me to keep the e-mail address.]

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Why would not you use Gmail?

[ron_newman]

That may be the way I ultimately go, but I wanted to explore other possibilities first. I'm used to reading and sending my mail via Apple Mail and POP/SMTP, not via a website.

(Also, doesn't Gmail edit all of my incoming and outgoing mail to insert advertising?)

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I'm sure others have told you you can still do that with Gmail, or outlook.com, etc.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

The only ads I ever see on gmail are quite easily blocked by AdBlock.

[squirrelitude]

I don't believe that GMail modifies your mail, no. However, they do analyze the content of your emails (and those of your correspondants) to decide which ads to show you.

[samcoren.livejournal.com]

Gmail is the bees knees and if you don't want to use their web interface you never really have to once you have it set up with apple mail (which is very easy to do - https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018,1665139 ). I've also used it to handle custom domain emails and never had a problem.

[ron_newman]

Very useful, thanks!