In reply to a post by Oliver341:

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.

That's interesting .

I assume you moved from Tsohost to 1 & 1. Why, and in what way have 1 & 1 proved better?

Yup, 1and1.co.uk for 7 years now and it has been superb. Their spam and malware detection are 100% , never yet had anything bad get to my mail box.

I use mail.com (web mail) as a back up and for forums/site registrations. Can create as many free accounts as you wish and any spammers/idiots can be blocked or the account deleted and use another one.

( mail.com and gmx.com are part of 1and1 , the high standard of service is the same across the 3 domains. )

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I assume you moved from Tsohost to 1 & 1. Why, and in what way have 1 & 1 proved better?

I did move in that direction, yes.

The reasons, well no huge ones, but there are a few areas where I feel 1&1's configuration is more consistent and less quirky than Tsohost.

That said, I won't go into specifics since that could spark a long debate, and I tend to be more picky than most when it comes to hosting providers anyway, given I used to host myself on a VPS for a long time where I could have things exactly how I wanted it, even to the extent of running my own BIND server for my DNS.

Edited by Oliver341 (Wed 10-Aug-16 14:42:07)

Hushmail or for end to end encryption tutanota.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

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

That is ok if you need it, I do not require it, i just wanted an email adress that did not change every-time I changed my ISP, I did have a hotmail account at the time, but wanted something better that did not have so much spam. That is why I decided to try 1 and 1. Gmail was not really a big thing at the time and to be honest i did not want a free one where they scan your email to chuck adverts at me.
also with one and one I can may different aliases for different companies
so like i could have say Mybank@my domain.co.uk as well as my normal one.

Aliases on a mailbox are normal. Some providers give you a fixed number. Some are unlimited, like mine.