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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/08/2023 10:10, William Kenworthy
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<p>I presume there are a lot of other PLUG members who use a TPG
group ISP like I do.</p>
<p>It looks like iinet (and all TPG companies) are dropping all
email services (but apparently not dropping prices) and are
force migrating people to a commercial company - free for now
but ...</p>
<p>The migration so far looks like a rolling disaster from some
TPG focused forums I read. Like almost everyone I have a google
email address but is there a reasonable Australian ISP in Perth
that still carries email? Telstra and Optus have never been
"good" in my opinion. I also run my home phone through them via
asterisk and have mobiles with them - I am not sure they would
consider them core services either. I do not store any email at
iinet - they provide imap pickup (I run a local mail gateway), a
couple of email aliases, provide virus and spam protection but
that's it.<br>
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Its looking like my best option is to stay with iinet (for now)
and migrate away from iinet starting with email.<br>
<p>What are others considering?</p>
<p>BillK</p>
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I run my own email server and always have (not strictly true in the
early days), this is one of the reasons why.<br>
It took me about 3 months to realise being tied to an ISP email
address was going to end badly when I wanted to move)<br>
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I would never use an ISPs email offering as you are then tied to
that service (well there are ways to mitigate that but on the whole
for most people I tell them not use their ISPs email service,
usually it is just a bad service and not really supported)<br>
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I recommend gmail for most people as it is simple and works.<br>
And I don't particularly like web base email clients either! Too
easy to pick up nasties.<br>
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