Yahoo, Thunderbird and the quest for email freedom

[Ryan Petris]

I've been using Fastmail <https://www.fastmail.com/> for years and have just used the web ui. They've been great and stable.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025, at 8:34 AM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
>   As many you now know Yahoo, who was acquired by Verizon back in 2017 and has merged with several companies to form a mega-corp has put out a new web interface which is terrible and caused me to seriously seek out an alternative to Yahoo.  Verizon, famous for terrible customer service, has now become the business model for Yahoo users. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)
> 
> Does anyone use an alternative email client and do they like it?  I have used Thunderbird years ago but it allows so much email you have to create filters to keep Spam out and receive normal email.  And yes I will find my username and password for Proton Mail...
> 
> How do we continue to use Yahoo email without getting slammed by this giant company?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Greg
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