Email account that works for this mailing list

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2025-10-17 at 00:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi,

OK, somebody should try to answer!


> does anyone know of an email service provider that
> 
> - is free of charge

Nothing is free. You are currently suffering wasted time and
frustration which obviously has a cost. Apparently some folks use a
virtual server in a data centre somewhere which presumably has a rental
fee. Others such as myself prefer to run our own servers which has an
initial hardware cost and occasional replacement parts and of course
electricity.


> - does not require a smartphone (I only have a landline connection)
> - does not move too many emails from this list into the spam filter 
> on the server side

Neither of these are a problem for the person in control.


> - offers POP accounts

dovecot config file option. Easy peasy.

I don't recall how much you know but obviously you need to get a domain
name which is a small expense with which you can make as many email
addresses and accounts as you like. If you don't have static IP
addresses you can use something like noip.com which worked OK for me
for maybe a decade. postfix takes care of pretty much everything
incoming and, maybe, outgoing.

For hardware I like a fanless industrial Jetway board with a quality
HDD and 12V power supply.



> With my current Yahoo account, I have to constantly log in to Yahoo
> to retrieve emails from the spam filter on the server. However, I
> have just been unable to log in and am receiving the following
> message:
> 
> "Yahoo
> Etwas ist schiefgelaufen

What a dreadful and perpetual PITA. I know all the above is a steep
learning curve but you can experiment for no expense by setting up a
mail server in virtualbox. I'm fortunate, I have IPv6 so I can
experiment with a live latest version mail server in a VM running on my
old desktop PC with DNS and everything working.

Sorry, forgot to say, running a server at home depends on you being
able to set the router to provide incoming port forwards etc. Otherwise
it might have to be the hosted elsewhere virtual server route which as
I said I've never used.

Hope I'm not appearing to talk down to you with all this but it's the
only way I know to get a decent email setup plus nobody else has
responded yet.

Dave