I tend to follow your example and to use one that costs a little bit of money. I currently have my own domain name and it is parked with its own mailbox at Fasthosts. They had issues in the past, but are now nice and stable.

As you know the advantage of this is that you can change providers at will and keep the same email address and add or delete family email addresses as and when the family wishes.

I'm with derekdel on this. Exactly the same experience, left BT because of their trebled email pricing and have found Fastmail excellent. When I rang BT and told them to close the account they offered to continue at the old price ... bye bye BT after 40 years

I don't use a third party email provider as I run my own mail servers but I've looked at Fastmail and they seem to be very security conscious, which is both rare and a good thing.

As well as scoring highly on the SSL/TLS and web server security tests at High-Tech Bridge, they offer a good range of two factor authentication options including hardware U2F keys such as the Yubico one, which can be bought on Amazon, and the Duo authentication mobile phone app (free from Google Play and iTunes App stores).

The advantage of two factor authentication is that if you find yourself needing to access your email by webmail on an unfamiliar computer, at an internet caf� for example, and it turns out that the computer has malware and is logging key strokes, your email account still can't be compromised.

Sadly, Mike, it's a bit too late for you as you already seem to be infected with malware

Please note that SMS two factor authentication is no longer considered secure - see NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over.

Edited by caffn8me (Mon 01-Aug-16 22:45:05)

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

www.1and1.co.uk

Used for nearly 15 years now, always spot on for me.

Yep, same here, no problem at all, sadly the email service I have got have been discontinued to new customers. but buy a domain for £6.99 and it comes with email. cheaper than what I am paying.

Been with them for about 13 years now

In reply to a post by flippery:

www.gmx.com

for a free one it is very good.

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

I don't use a third party email provider as I run my own mail servers but I've looked at Fastmail and they seem to be very security conscious, which is both rare and a good thing.

Is that not a pain? I did it a few years back, but too much hassle.

As well as scoring highly on the SSL/TLS and web server security tests at High-Tech Bridge, they offer a good range of two factor authentication options including hardware U2F keys such as the Yubico one, which can be bought on Amazon, and the Duo authentication mobile phone app (free from Google Play and iTunes App stores).

The advantage of two factor authentication is that if you find yourself needing to access your email by webmail on an unfamiliar computer, at an internet caf� for example, and it turns out that the computer has malware and is logging key strokes, your email account still can't be compromised.

Sadly, Mike, it's a bit too late for you as you already seem to be infected with malware

LOL,

Please note that SMS two factor authentication is no longer considered secure - see NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over.

Can someone tell vodafone that then, because i am really getting peed off mucking around to access my account on their web site.

Gmail, I don't worry about data mining.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Yep, same here, no problem at all, sadly the email service I have got have been discontinued to new customers. but buy a domain for £6.99 and it comes with email. cheaper than what I am paying.

Yeah, the older cheaper price for 5 mailboxes was good, but the £1.99+vat for 20 mailboxes is still decent value IMO. An added bonus is that 1and1 are now supporting spf records for mail sent from their servers; they were quite late to the spf party:

v=spf1 include:_spf.perfora.net include:_spf.kundenserver.de -all

Nobody (in a domestic situation) needs 20 mailboxes. Even 10 is huge.

My £22.18pa gives me a domain, hosting space for two domains/sites (the second domain is £7.19pa), and 10 mailboxes. £1.99pm + Vat is £28.66pa.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 10-Aug-16 13:39:39)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Nobody (in a domestic situation) needs 20 mailboxes. Even 10 is huge.

True, but their other option is 0.99p per month for only one, which may not be enough. But if it is, as already pointed out, they throw one mailbox in for free when you buy a domain from them.

Having used both Tsohost and 1&1, my personal preference is 1&1, although Tsohost's £14.99 package is hard to beat on price.