New user has reliability questions - and why I'm HERE not elsewhere
Hi, new @zoho.com free personal account user here. Finding ZOHO seems like a breath of fresh air. I cannot believe how hard it is to find an email service these days!
1) Before I start to use Zoho I'm hoping to get some honest opinions on reliability. Including incoming/outgoing speed. I know there are many variables outside of this server, and no guarantees with smtp period, but long time users should have an idea if there was a bad pattern. This is very important for job search.
2) Has anyone ever come across problems being blacklisted? You end up in spam folders or other problems?
3) How about sending to anonymized Craigslist addresses? Craigslist may just silently drop things it thinks are sketchy instead of forwarding.
4) What are the quotas/limits on the free @zoho.com personal accounts? Same as LITE? 5GB storage? / 20MB per message? Daily limits?
Honestly my usage is going to be fairly light and file attachments small. I just cannot afford to have emails lost/dropped/blacklisted/delayed. Or my account blocked for hitting a limit, which IMHO is more likely by someone sending me stuff that I'd hit a daily quota or something.
5) Account deletion from inactivity - how often must one use the account before it or the emails get deleted?
Thank you in advance for answers and opinions!
---------------- Why I'm here and not elsewhere ----------------
2014 is a bad year for free email services. Here is my rant. It may save someone some time and frustration..
First, I miss Lavabit. It was shut down last year in a principle of privacy. Interesting story. Not many providers would take that stance.
WARNING ABOUT MAIL.COM (a 1&1 company): I think I just got screwed. Sure I knew their customer service sucked ass before signing up but I've only needed tech support like 2x in my life (and one of those times landed me a job lol). Many bad reviews in recent years. But they have many nice domains to pick from! Good usernames without numbers! Some things were kind of slow. But I now have SEVERE QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR RELIABILITY! Example: I sent my resume to a friend's office *twice* yesterday and he has still not received it today. A 150k PDF should fly through the tubes. No errors, no bounces, everything looks normal. So now I wonder how many times has this happened since I started using mail.com? How much of an ass will I look like resending it to people who already received it? How much of an ass will I look like apologizing to people who did not receive it? I am pissed.
Other servers I did not want: Google should have stuck to indexing the web, not indexing people. Also last time I used gmail they kept nagging for a mobile phone #, the webmail user interface had non-intuitive heiroglyphics (like they are trying to compete with Microsoft in a worst user interface contest), and staying logged in with a gmail window open also keeps you logged in to G+ while browsing the web. Yahoo I was never a fan of, I was almost prepared to select a horrible username with numbers but now they want a mobile # (why?) so I am not going to create an account. Well I probably have a few Yahoo accounts over the years I've forgotten about. Rocketmail became Yahoo. Hotmail went to sh!t years ago, and likewise I do not want any other Microsoft services like Outlook.com MSN Live etc. Do not want an Apple service like iCloud either. Having an AOL after 1995 just screams Loser. It really does. GMX (now 1&1 company) I liked years ago but found they have a tendancy to be blacklisted, you may find registrations for places are silently ignored if you use a gmx address. Inbox.com may have poor reliability lately according to things I have read. Lycos has very small quotas and may require a mobile # on step 3. In.com sounds like a great domain but they put advertisements on outgoing emails, and I'll note they are in India. MyWay.com has ads in your outgoing messages, and I read a lot of problems in recent years. VFEmail looks good for privacy but free accounts only have a 50MB quota, and ads in the message footer. MrMail.com looks good but I read of problems since it was sold. Autistici.org might be good but in english it just sounds too close to "autistic". Mail.ru and Yandex just don't sound good to have a resume come from or for American business, and I'm not sure about having a Russian email server either. Openmailbox.org I cannot even connect to their webpage today, Operamail is dead, Fastmail no longer has free accounts and their ownership has changed a few times recently. There are others I have dismissed too for various reasons.
IMAP/POP options are great too - but even with that out of the equation, Zoho is more appealing than all of the above!
My ISP email is actually pretty good but I do not want to be tied to my ISP on my resume and some other things - my ISP might change.
So, ya,.. I think I am happy to be here.