Thanks.

That is what I found – closing programs does not clear out cache.

@zerenia

It slows down my PC. At one point, the Cache takes up 13GB of my PC (out of a total of 16GB RAM) – after I backup my emails!!

In Windows’ Task Manager > Performance, it shows how much of the Physical memory is being used for Cache. When Windows is Restarted (or Power on/off) the Cache is cleared out. Is there a way to clear out the Cache without restarting Windows?

TIA

The Vanguard Treasury MMF (and other treasury MMF) invests primarily in T-Bills (and potentially other Treasury securities). Therefore, all underlying assets are guaranteed by US Gov’t, which I think is better than FDIC insurance – for one thing there is no $250K limit,

This is slightly off topic.

For those living in states with income tax, Vanguard Treasury MMF may be an equally attractive alternative. Its current 7-day yield is over 4.7% with no state tax. The duration is currently less than 30 days; and the yield will move up/down if interest rate goes up/down. So you don’t have to keep moving money around to get the best yield.

You can get in and out anytime just like the savings a/c with no 6 withdrawals/mo. limit. It also have check writing privilege. And you can set it up to send money to any financial institution you want; and it arrives at the destination the next day. You can also buy that fund through some discount brokerage firms.

The only possible negative for some is the $10K min. to open; but there is no minimum maintenance requirement.

Am I missing any thing?

@bob-black said in Finding Email Hosting companies:

I’m not really good at this, but I know that my brother does something like this, I know for a fact that he sends e-mails. He has a small business and had to introduce this function for the convenience of his work. I can say that lately he is using a chat bot that sends messages to all his customers, and he also automatically keeps a record of the client, or rather only takes the order when my brother can not answer in person. And then he contacts the person afterwards. I think it’s very convenient so don’t look only at the mailing list we are used to when there are much more technological solutions for these cases. I do not remember its name, but I can find out if you are interested.

Thanks, I have signed up for Zoho. They have most of the services you mentioned; but I am not running a biz; so I don’t need them. They do have 24/7 live support for paid subscription – including the $1/mo plan. PO Box’s email only support is just too slow for me.

@hbg1 said in Finding Email Hosting companies:

Thank you for the response. A couple of followup questions:

Just curious. Do you have only one domain and one email/user account and use alias/forwarders for all other email address?

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3. If you are using Outlook or another program to download your email, I would think that the filters and address book would be stored in Outlook, and should still work. It’s possible you’d need to adjust the filters to look for something different, but I’m not sure. Do you have all that set up on the back end/current email host? I don’t use cPanel currently for anything, so I can’t really answer the rest. That may be something I don’t do on my account.

The filters I am referring to are domain-level filters – mostly the white list and black list. My filtering at the email-client level (e.g. Outlook) is just to sort the incoming emails into different folders.
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8. … I have my account set up to deliver all emails, and the ones flagged as spam go into the spam folder. So I don’t miss any that could be false positives (if that’s the kind of thing you were asking about).

I am not quite sure what you mean by this. Do you download (pop3) just your Inbox emails and review your Spam emails on Zoho’s web site (using webmail)? If you download your Spam messages, can you tell me how?

Or are the spam also set to delivered to you Inbox. If so, how do Zoho notate the spam messages so that you can filter in Outlook?

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Thanks again.

Thanks to hbg1 and ghenke for your suggestions.

Questions for both of you:

1. If you have your domain, the mail servers will be mail.mydomain.com or something similar? (as oppose mail.hostname.com)

2. If I don’t maintain a web site, what name server would I be using? Do I use the name server of the email hosting company [for DNS purpose]? I see references to MX record within the DNS. [My terminology may not be correct.]

3. Since I have all my email stored on my PC, I don’t need to move any emails. But I do have to add all my email addresses/forwarders/filtering rules, etc. to their system. Is there an easy way to do it besides adding them manually? Do either of them use cPanel to do this. [I have a backup copy of my cPanel.] I see Zoho has a cPanel plugin. Does that transfer all email related configurations from my current hosting co. to Zoho? How about Pobox?

4. Technical support. I don’t see any phone support. Do I have to sign in and go through their portal to ask question? Or can I simply send an email to their support email address? And what are their hours? And response time?

5. Do they support TLS ports in sending/receiving mails?

6. Do they provide free SSL certificates? Or is that only applicable to websites?

7. Do you know their limit on the size of file attachments?

8. Are they overly aggressive with their spam filtering? – i.e. having many legitimate emails bounced. Or are their mail servers often blacklisted and their emails get rejected by the receiving servers?

Thanks in advance.

I have 2 domains with a total of 5 email accounts. I don’t maintain websites for my domains. They are just for emails. Light email traffic. I download all my email to my PC, so size of storage is not an issue. They need to support POP and SMTP protocals with encryption (TLS?).

Do I need web hosting if I don’t maintain any web sites? Or do I need it just for the email?

Does anyone know of any good email hosting companies at reasonable rates?

I am currently with TMDHosting.com. I have all kinds of problems with them. They sometimes bounce my emails to a total of 3 recieptiants – “exceeded 5 maximum”. They never explain how that can be the reason. At one point, they bounce certain email addressed to me to the system’s mailbox (which I didn’t know existed). The sender is on my white list. I have no idea how those emails can go to the system’s mailbox!! I was waiting for the response; and those responses “went into a black hole” – leading to minunderstandings.

Right now, the domain2 is an addon domain; and is generally treated as 2 domains for pricing purpose. To cut down on the cost, can I make the domains a subdomain of domain1? I was told I can forward domain2’s email to domain1. Does that involve complicated processes? [The only thing I know is changing the name servers when changing hosting company; and some elementary knowledge in using cPanel related to email setups.]

Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.