Linux:

 

@forry Do not use a ISP provided email address

 

Thanks

old3eyes:

 

Linux:

 

@forry Do not use a ISP provided email address

 

 

Plus 1 for that!! 

 

30 years ago there was little choice, and some people are tied to their email like a 60 year old is to their phone number.

Bung - "If your entire xtra email history is only stored on 1 hard drive you are running the same risk of 1 failure losing the lot."

Always good advice...cant be repeated often enough.

For fear of going off topic, I always had this hammered into me, yet what a hassle following it to the letter.

The 3-2-1 backup strategy simply states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different media (disk and tape) with one copy off-site for disaster recovery. 

ps - forgot to mention in my earlier post was the testing to ensure email attachments were being transferred also (they were).

Thats a Surprise - Good result in the end.

I got charged $5.95
I cancelled my email service well before the prescribed date using the MySpark online tool which gave me a 1x tick box to cancel. 
Silly me, I have only had 1x Spark account number under which all my services are listed and billed. Here was I thinking if I cancelled the only email option it was gone and I later tested with emails sent to the old address bouncing. 
I queried the charge online only to be told today "there are no notes in your account about a request to cancel the Xtra Mail hence the charges continues. Kindly confirm if you wish to have it cancel today..." 
A phone call to a very friendly customer service lady confirmed I had cancelled my email in time, but there were still some 'left over' aliases active. I commented that at no time was there an online or email advice, help or prompt that one had to delete aliases before disposing of the total xtra email service. She agreed and manually deleted the addresses and credited my account.
I helped a lot of folk through this matter, archiving and setup new email accounts elsewhere. I will need to remind them all to check their latest bills.

I would go beyond "do not use an ISP email address" to "do not use ANY email address where you don't control the domain".. if outlook.com or gmail.com or whatever gets closed tomorrow, you're back in the same boat.

If you want an email address that will never go away (as long as you pay the bill), get your own domain.

Lias:

 

I agree.  I would go beyond "do not use an ISP email address" to "do not use ANY email address where you don't control the domain".. if outlook.com or gmail.com or whatever gets closed tomorrow, you're back in the same boat.

 

If you want an email address that will never go away (as long as you pay the bill), get your own domain.

 

I agree completely.

Plus nobody here has talked about the obvious - privacy.

If you don't like the idea of your emails being analysed for marketing info, Google and all are not for you.

If you don't like the idea that someone in Google etc. may actual read your emails, beware, it has happened.

Xtramail (post Yahoo!) is I believe NZ hosted, under NZ law.  Gmail and the rest are under USA law.  If you're a master criminal :-), or maybe just someone with other views they are "not proper", the NSA or other USA law enfocement agencies can get your emails.

Reminds me of an album title - "Give me convinience or give me death"

I prefer crappy spam filters!