Cox communications sold their email to Yahoo. Yahoo selectively sends about half of my email to the Junkbox especially ALL of the emails from one political party perspective. I want to switch from Yahoo but want another service compatible with eMClient. I’m assuming I will have to change my email address from cox.net (not something I want to do because of notifying all my correspondents). I have been looking at Proton, but I do want some emails from businesses where I shop and it appears that might not happen. Thanks for any input anyone can give.
One of the considerations could be this email service provider which has gone out of its way to be compatible with eM Client:
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Looks interesting. Thank you for the repy.
I have been looking at Proton.
I would avoid Proton mail due to many user problems around the globe with that using many email clients that seem to have ongoing issues.
So apart from Imageway as @lancealot suggested above which is an excellent mail providor, I would also recommend Google Workspace for personal or business mail accounts which also work perfectly with eM Client.
If you have a current domain business mailbox email address with Cox and “want to keep your domain email address”, then see the following Google Workspace page for information on what they offer. They have a contact sales email address at the bottom of the page below for any questions.
Google Business
Or if you have a free non business personal email address currently at Cox, then you could optionally setup a new free personal email address at Google, and then setup an automatic forwarding from Cox to a new Gmail address for a while till everyone got your new address.
Google Personal mail accounts currently have 15GB mailboxes to start with and they have paid options after that if you need more space etc
Google Personal
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Thank you, cyberzork. Good information.
The working perfectly does not always work out that easily as illustrated in this thread: Cant set up new Google account - #3 by celloshred
In instances like that, Google most likely wouldn’t provide direct support for eM Client to get things working with their email server systems. Imageway would provide support in that situation due to working closely with eM Client and completing extensive testing to ensure compatibility with eM Client, including the auto-discovery functionality as illustrated here: eM Client with Imageway - #28 by Holbourn
Just another factor to think about if you want a email provider that has worked with eM Client directly to make sure it works in the best and most reliable way possible with their email server systems.
Ive had heaps of friends with their own domain email address’s and websites who moved to everything to Google, and Google Business (Workspace) Support “have always helped out” if there was any problems like MX Records or Pointing DNS for their existing websites etc.
I wouldn’t normally expect Google to support eM Client as they don’t write. They would refer the customer to eM Client support. Just like Google would refer Outlook customers to Microsoft.
Imageway would provide support in that situation due to working closely with eM Client and completing extensive testing to ensure compatibility with eM Client, including the auto-discovery functionality as illustrated here
eM Client was also designed to work with Google accounts from day one and is 100% compatible, and also auto discovers home or business Gmail accounts normally like Imageway with no issues.
See eM Client blog page on Google Workspace.
But obviously its up to the customer in the end who they want to go with. Either one is good.
@cyberzork Seems my words were taken the wrong way. I was not saying eM Client was not built to be 100% compatible with Google accounts nor that Google support doesn’t help with DNS configuration. I was only trying to make the point that Imageway is one of the few email service providers that goes that extra mile to ensure the process to get eM Client working with their services is as easy and seamless as possible, even if it requires them to make server side changes on their end to accommodate eM Client operating in a better way. This includes considering and ensuring eM Client continues to work reliably and without issues when server side changes are made. Other email providers (such as Google) more then likely will not go to that extreme, nor provide direct support for eM Client from the service provider end if issues do occur with eM Client communicating with their services. When they make server side changes that break eM Client compatibility, it looks like the issue is with eM Client, and then it becomes eM Client’s responsibility to provide a fix to deal with their server side changes.
I actually have a lot of respect and sympathy for eM Client when it comes to having to change and create work arounds to accommodate how some email service providers operate or the changes they consistently make. One example is the move to OAuth and the multitude of new issues that created, and continues to create even to this day. In many instances eM Client gets the blame for being at fault when many times it is caused by server side issues or changes which didn’t take into account interfacing with eM Client.
I agree, in the end the customer should go with the email provider they feel meets their needs and will provide the best experience in a reliable way for the software environment they wish to use.
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