I second Fastmail. Tuffmail is also worth a look.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:23 AM John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP
> connections,
> > would you please post it in a reply.
>
> Newsguy.com
>
> I've been using them for more than ten years with no problems. They
> have spam filtering which you can turn off. They also have a Webmail
> interface but you don't have to use it. I pay them an annual fee so I
> am a customer, not a set of "eyeballs" to be marketed.
>
> I download my mail with Fetchmail which hands it off to Exim for local
> delivery ("local" meaning on this machine). I selected "smarthost" when
> installing Exim so it connects to Newsguy for all outgoing mail (and
> accepts no incoming connections). This is a standard Debian
> configuration.
>
> Kmail and Thuderbird will work fine with Newsguy, of course.
> --
> John Hasler
> jhas...@newsguy.com
> Elmwood, WI USA
>
> --
John L. Cunningham
