couldn't access my email attachments again!

[GunsMadeAmericaFree]

I've been using Yahoo mail for 15 years, and I've finally had it. For the second time in a week, I was completely unable to access file attachments. At least 5 times in the past week I've gotten these "apology" screens that come up saying "sorry, you can't access your email, but our top engineers are working on it".

Not good enough. I no longer trust the service, and I've wasted far too much time with problems lately. Gmail isn't much better, because I know they are gathering details from my email and using it to target advertising to me. I'm starting to think that Gmail is an advertising service first, and an email second.

Can anyone recommend a hosted pine or alpine (text based) paid email that I could use that is dependable? I don't mind if it costs me $20 a year or something, but I do want it to be text based, remote email, for 2 reasons:

1) if it's text based, there are no graphical ads loading, taking up bandwidth

2) if it's remotely hosted, then I can format my hard drive, reinstall my OS (probably Windows) and then install a telnet, ssh remote program (whatever) and get right back to my email with no problems or loss of any emails.

Thanks for any help - I really want to get
switched over!

 

[inf1nity]

If your problem is ads and data mining why not just use Thunderbird?

As far as the first problem, GMail has been pretty reliable for me, but then again data mining is a problem.

 

[corkyg]

Thunderbird is OK - I've been using Eudora Pro 7.1 for many years. For me, it is the best email organizer ever produced. It even is happy in 8.1.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I've seen this behavior before, and was able to download the attachment/s via Thunderbird (highly preferable over webmail).

Add Your Yahoo mail Account to Thunderbird Using IMAP

EDIT>> These settings work with any email client, not just Thunderbird

 

[AnonymouseUser]

1) if it's text based, there are no graphical ads loading, taking up bandwidth

2) if it's remotely hosted, then I can format my hard drive, reinstall my OS (probably Windows) and then install a telnet, ssh remote program (whatever) and get right back to my email with no problems or loss of any emails.

Email clients such as Thunderbird will do these two things. You just make sure the client (1) doesn't load remote images by default, and (2) that's just how IMAP works.