[ale] Very cheap basic mail hosting with IMAP

[Jeff Hubbs]

It's also wholly dependent on a corporation that merely grants you, by 
its providence and favor, continuous permission to use as *they* see 
fit. The service is theirs to control at their whim, and you have no 
leverage over them whatsoever. That it is also the "much easier 
solution" is no accident.

On 2/23/20 11:49 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I already use Gmail and it's not fully reliable.  Every time I come off
> wifi and onto the cellular network Google blocks my mail access until I
> respond to an email asking me if it was me that connected to my email.
> It happens Every. Single. Day.  It's really frustrating which is why I
> wanted something else.
>
> It's also very slow.  Sometimes I don't get updated for half an hour or
> more because they don't support IMAP push where the other server I'm
> using will send me the notification in a matter of seconds.
>
> On 2020-02-23 20:13, SpaXpert, Inc. wrote:
>> Gmail is a much easier solution.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The bridge won't work with my phone.  Currently I have my phone making
>>> the direct IMAP access (and also IMAP push) to retrieve the messages.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-02-23 05:06, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> Protonmail free account with the imap bridge?
>>>>
>>>> On February 23, 2020 3:34:12 AM EST, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Anyone have a suggestion for a very cheap mail host that can handle
>>>>> just
>>>>> a couple messages per day with IMAP capability?  I have domains
>>>>> registered through Godaddy right now and they've suddenly decided that
>>>>> the basic single mail address they provide with domains is going away
>>>>> in
>>>>> favor of MS Exchange/Office 365 and they will be charging for it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use it to send time critical messages that my machines generate to my
>>>>> phone (monitored by K9 mail) because it's cheaper than sending text
>>>>> messages to my phone (I pay per message).  I don't need much at all,
>>>>> the
>>>>> messages are stripped down by procmail before sending them out so
>>>>> they're only like 1 kB or so and I delete them shortly after receiving
>>>>> them so I don't even need much storage.  I already run my mail server
>>>>> at
>>>>> home but this is a secondary path that exists outside of my network for
>>>>> a little redundancy.  I don't need to transfer the domains or buy
>>>>> another one necessarily, I can just point the MX records at the host.
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