Details about using gandi.net email addresses in Thunderbird?
Hi! Where can I find details about using gandi.net in Thunderbird? Is there a limit to the number of gandi addresses I can use, & the all important question for people like me who don't have piles of extra cash...are gandi's addresses free to use, & if so, is it a "trial period", or forever? Sorry to be so inquisitive, but I don't know anything about gandi, so I'd like to know as many details about their services/charges as possible, as I'd hate to transfer my addresses to Thunderbird & then find out that they charge a lot of money, or that they send all my personal info the the NSA...etc. Right now, I have Comcast as my ISP & I'm not at all happy with the lack of concern they have for my Privacy, so does gandi interact at all with Comcast if I use them? Any details/hints/tricks/tips about the best way to start using Thunderbird will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to read & answer my post! Best Regards, Nuts4Mutts :)
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Hi Matt! Thanks for the help. All things considered, I guess I'll just stick with Comcast, as I know the reputations of Hotmail Google & Yahoo, & I trust THEM even less than I trust Comcast! I've never heard of GMX, though, so I'll have to do some research on them, just in case they might be better than Comcast. Thanks again for your help, & enjoy your weekend!
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Gandi is a paid service and it is not cheap really, Mozilla gets a small commission on the sale gandi makes to you.
Personally I suggest you just create accounts with Yahoo, Google, Hotmail or GMX and select use an existing account to add them to Thunderbird.
Free as in beer and not going anywhere.
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Hi Matt! Thanks for the help. All things considered, I guess I'll just stick with Comcast, as I know the reputations of Hotmail Google & Yahoo, & I trust THEM even less than I trust Comcast! I've never heard of GMX, though, so I'll have to do some research on them, just in case they might be better than Comcast. Thanks again for your help, & enjoy your weekend!
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GMX is a German provider with a German penchant for privacy. They ask almost nothing of you and store even less. It is about as close to anonymous as you will get.
I had never heard of them either until I started dealing with the French Thunderbird support people. Apparently GMX is big in Europe, and as they acquired one of the largest free mail providers in France, big in France in particular. Web.de is also big, but it is a German language site. Sort of makes registration difficult unless you read German Interestingly GMX now offer GMX.us email addresses as well as GMX.com. So as a Comcast person you could get a .us email address. more localized that .com
Wikipedia indicate some 11 million active users.
They also own the US based Mail.com
Hi Matt! Thanks again for adding more info about GMX. I went to their site, & it does look quite promising. I also found another email provider, (?...is that the correct term?), called ZOHO, so between using one of those & using a VPN, I think I'll be able to sleep better at night! I recently had my identity stolen & our bank was able to do some investigating for us & they told us it was due to "fraudulent online activity"; when I asked if they could be more specific, they said there's no way to name names or websites, etc., but somehow our info was compromised while doing something online, so I want to do whatever I can to be as safe as is humanly possible! I'm very grateful for your help, & if you think of anything else, just post again...I'm always open for good ideas to ensure privacy! Best Regards, Nuts4Mutts :)
Online privacy is really almost impossible t maintain. To a large extent I have given up on that as just more trouble than I have time to cope with.
What I am very careful of are those sites that ask me to sign in with Facebook or Google+. They can often be giving huge access to your information without much in the way of oversight, In their defense both Google and Facebook tell you exactly what information the site has asked for, but very few people actually click the what pat of the sign-in.
Twitter, if you have an account or not tracks your movements across the internet using their ubiquitous Twitter icon on web pages you visit. They probably have a more complete profile on internet users than most of the more high profile sites, So in your suspicions of Gogle and Yahoo, you need to include all the social networking sites. Especially Facebook. Being in private hands we really do not get to know what goes on there at all.
Most identity theft however originates from low value online purchases. Why get someones identity information through nefarious means when you can get them to just hand the information over. After all a transaction requires payment, usually with your credit card, a shipping address and a name. there is not really a lot more information required.
I use a dedicated low value credit card, usernames and passwords for banking that truly are not reused for other web sites. One of the unfortunate things is people tend to reuse both user names and passwords, so if you get one you get them all. and I never save those passwords on a computer, not even my own. Things that are not there can not be accidentally release through some action on line.
But I will reiterate my commendation of GMX for privacy. German privacy laws are some of the strongest in the world. See here for a commercial, but succinct summary of German privacy laws http://perspecsys.com/how-we-help/cloud-privacy/german-data-privacy-law/
The united states on the other hand has some of the worst. To quote here "the US has a patchwork system of federal and state laws, and regulations that can sometimes overlap, dovetail and contradict one another"