NZ domiciled paid webmail with old-fashioned billing?

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#3437771 26-Nov-2025 17:21

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Sounds like a time waster!

Get a lot of those that want all the information and then none of the follow thru in all industries.

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#3437899 27-Nov-2025 06:36

He’s busy negotiating with NZ Post to get his letters delivered by 8am via horse back by a gent wearing a top hat!

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#3437928 27-Nov-2025 10:38

Probably still trying to find his quill to fill in the application scroll and send it in with the gold doubloon payment

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#3437940 27-Nov-2025 11:25

I think that's enough beating up on the OP. We're better than that, here.

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#3437941 27-Nov-2025 11:40

Dynamic:

I think that's enough beating up on the OP. We're better than that, here.

I agree. As someone rapidly approaching old man yelling at cloud stage, refusing to install apps, I can certainly relate.

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#3437994 27-Nov-2025 16:44

Yeah, me too. A lot of today's tech is beyond me but I still know more than the average neighbour and my instinct is to resist almost everything new and improved!

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#3440839 7-Dec-2025 01:36

You can use protonmail to access email or install webmail software on your own cloud machine

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#3453299 15-Jan-2026 13:11

danfaulknor:

BlakJak:

The paper billing thing is going to be a major dealbreaker for most of them though. Save some trees!

We did offer this option, for a price, but I am guessing OP found it too expensive as I haven't heard back from them in over a month (now that I check, they haven't opened my message in reply to their last set of questions).

Thank you for the offer. All of GeekZone got put into the too-hard basket for a while.

I was seduced by a Spark offer of 1TB for $9..15 per month (it's complicated). I'm waiting for the billing to settle. If I end up mistrusting them, then I will come back to you, as being the leading option. If, in the mean time, and for your own reasons, you start having closer New Zealand data centre options, that could be a plus.

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#3453301 15-Jan-2026 13:13

BlakJak:

Old thread but i'm dying to know why email billing for your own email environment would be such a stressor?

Here's a threat model. I am not, and never was, a system administrator. The computer that receives and presents the email is penetrated. All email about financial or legal matters is assistance to someone who's trying to turn that penetration into an ill-gotten financial opportunity.

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#3453373 15-Jan-2026 16:44

jfw01:

BlakJak:

Old thread but i'm dying to know why email billing for your own email environment would be such a stressor?

Here's a threat model. I am not, and never was, a system administrator. The computer that receives and presents the email is penetrated. All email about financial or legal matters is assistance to someone who's trying to turn that penetration into an ill-gotten financial opportunity.

you do know email can be anywhere right?

(just like Tina from Turners says “internet is everywhere, you don’t have to come here”).

so my point being is, “if your computer is compromised, then simply remove the ability to access email from it”, and then attend to use it on a different computer whilst you sort out a complete wipe (or in your case, replace the drive and start again).

or have I miss understood your english?

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#3453388 15-Jan-2026 17:59

Goosey:

jfw01:

Here's a threat model. I am not, and never was, a system administrator. The computer that receives and presents the email is penetrated. All email about financial or legal matters is assistance to someone who's trying to turn that penetration into an ill-gotten financial opportunity.

you do know email can be anywhere right?

(just like Tina from Turners says “internet is everywhere, you don’t have to come here”).

so my point being is, “if your computer is compromised, then simply remove the ability to access email from it”, and then attend to use it on a different computer whilst you sort out a complete wipe (or in your case, replace the drive and start again).

or have I miss understood your english?

I think his example is more like "by the time an intrusion/compromise was detected, the information was already exfiltrated."

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#3453394 15-Jan-2026 18:13

jfw01:

If I end up mistrusting them, then I will come back to you, as being the leading option. If, in the mean time, and for your own reasons, you start having closer New Zealand data centre options, that could be a plus.

I'm not entirely sure what this means as we already have a presence in multiple NZ datacentres (Auckland and Christchurch)

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#3453402 15-Jan-2026 18:22

jfw01:

I was seduced by a Spark offer of 1TB for $9..15 per month (it's complicated). I'm waiting for the billing to settle. If I end up mistrusting them, then I will come back to you, as being the leading option. If, in the mean time, and for your own reasons, you start having closer New Zealand data centre options, that could be a plus.

I can assure you @danfaulknor is trusted. He provides one of the two network connections to Geekzone (via his company, Prodigi).

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#3453410 15-Jan-2026 19:05

In support of what @freitasm said.

@danfaulknor is an industry peer of mine and knows their stuff. There is at a guess 100 or so people in NZ at the ISP depth of technical level Dan is.

But TBH this request to send a paper bill for a email account is just too much, lol.

The ISP I work has clients spending thousands of dollars a month and their expectations are easier to justify from a commercial view.

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#3453444 15-Jan-2026 21:13

jfw01:

BlakJak:

Old thread but i'm dying to know why email billing for your own email environment would be such a stressor?

Here's a threat model. I am not, and never was, a system administrator. The computer that receives and presents the email is penetrated. All email about financial or legal matters is assistance to someone who's trying to turn that penetration into an ill-gotten financial opportunity.

I am confused about where you see the threat in an emailed copy of the bill. There's very little information on an invoice or statement that couldn't be found elsewhere. It's a strange hill to die on.

And I work in cyber security, so assessing the nature of cyber threats is something I have some experience in.

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