Changing E-Mail (Watch This Space)

[stevemb]

Our service from Speakeasy has been getting increasingly flaky, with more outages in the last couple months than in the previous few years. The last straw was that messages from addresses that are in the spam filter whitelist have been repeatedly dropping into the spam bucket anyway (and attempts to re-enter them into the whitelist don't work); the

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[mneme]

Suggestion: Decouple your email from your ISP.

ISPs are historically awful for providing email service, and you can get good and free (or for a minimal cost, if you want your own domain, etc, with a lot more features added in) email elsewhere, trivially and easily.

Why tie your email to who's dropping a wire into your house?

[stevemb]

So far, I've set up a gmail account to be used for impersonal mail (forum registrations, online shopping, etc); that gives me a while to transition those things over while waiting for the new connection. The new personal e-mail address(es) will be distinct from that; I might use (name)@verizon.net and (samename)@somewhere-else.com and give out both for personal e-mail so people can just cc: both to make sure the message doesn't get lost.

[mneme]

Giving out the "real addy" isn't terrible, and backup addies are useful, of course

[stevemb]

Thanks. I don't know if I'll bother with setting up a domain, but I have thought about segregating e-mail addresses (providing different levels of privacy, spam protection versus certainty of any given message getting through, etc), including one for household services (directly accessible to both me and starmalachite).