Precautions to take just in case email goes down

[elliottflz65]

I use a non 'mainstream' email. I like the current email provider because it's not such a big target such as the bigger and more used ones. However, something which does concern me if they disappear suddenly. for what ever reason they've lost funding etc.

What precautions can I take in order to assure that I can still recieve emails from the my account if the service provider did go down. Is there any possible way?

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[escrow.ms]

If email provider goes down, you can't receive email but you can keep your old emails safe by downloading them in your pc. Use thunderbird or some other mail client and sync emails.

[Lauda]

You've made this in the wrong section. This isn't related to Bitcoin. It could probably fit only in Off-topic.
Anyhow the user above pretty much told you what you can do. You should regularly backup your emails in case there is important information in them. I the provider goes down, so does your account and everything with it.

[franky1]

answer:
stop using generic email providers. and instead purchase your own domain/pop service and have your own independant and fully personalised email

EG
CEO@elliottflz65.com rather than elliottflz65@NeverHeardOfButIsSimilarToGMail.com

[Welsh]

answer:
stop using generic email providers. and instead purchase your own domain/pop service and have your own independant and fully personalised email

If you do take this approach, only host it yourself. Otherwise you are relying on a third party which themselves could go offline at any point, or be exploited.

[huadylmate]

answer:
stop using generic email providers. and instead purchase your own domain/pop service and have your own independant and fully personalised email

EG
CEO@elliottflz65.com rather than elliottflz65@NeverHeardOfButIsSimilarToGMail.com

I am going to look into this as I've been wondering similar to the OP I don't want to rely on others to much and what you have said sounds like a winner for the sake of a few dollars a year. Thanks for the advice franky.

[pawel7777]

answer:
stop using generic email providers. and instead purchase your own domain/pop service and have your own independant and fully personalised email

EG
CEO@elliottflz65.com rather than elliottflz65@NeverHeardOfButIsSimilarToGMail.com

I don't think most users would be willing to pay for domain (and remember to renew it etc) just to create email address.

Also, there are some interesting projects like protonmail, which is great but there's uncertainty whether it will survive in the long run.

@OP, if your email provider is a registered/legit/non-anonymous  business, you should expect they'll notify you well in advance before winding up the business. Otherwise they'll risk legal actions for data loss etc.

ps. agree with LaudaM, totally off-top

[Soros Shorts]

answer:
stop using generic email providers. and instead purchase your own domain/pop service and have your own independant and fully personalised email

If you do take this approach, only host it yourself. Otherwise you are relying on a third party which themselves could go offline at any point, or be exploited.

Now the next question would be should you or should you not host your own authoritative DNS servers to resolve the MX records to your domain? Should you rely on cheapo DNS service (GoDaddy), premium DNS service (UltraDNS), or just roll out your own name servers across the globe?

I run my own redundant name servers for my personal vanity domain, but then again I did it just for fun and it costs a bundle to maintain. Plus my DNS servers could never withstand a DNS-level DoS attack.

[ajareselde]

I use a non 'mainstream' email. I like the current email provider because it's not such a big target such as the bigger and more used ones. However, something which does concern me if they disappear suddenly. for what ever reason they've lost funding etc.

What precautions can I take in order to assure that I can still recieve emails from the my account if the service provider did go down. Is there any possible way?

I doubt you can receive or retrieve any mail after the provider goes offline, except if you had synced it.

I had a similar problem when one webmail was closed down, and not even 20 mails sent to their support (which was still operating) helped me.
Wouldnt advise using some LQ email service, although they may be ignored as a target, they also have the lowest security, and customer support..

cheers

[fryarminer]

Synology will let you host your own email.
Back in the day when all this was new I knew a guy who sat in the server room of an email provider all day. He had access to everyone's emails.
Since then I wonder how much of our stuff is read by email service provders and the people working for them.

[readysalted89]

You could use MailStore Home software which lets you archive your private email from almost any email source and search through them extremely quickly.

http://www.mailstore.com/

Regular backups to your own central archive of emails stored on your own computer is a fairly good solution.

[SISAR]

Start using decentralized communication solutions. Plenty of altcoins have some sort of plain text or even encrypted messaging.

[No Checks, Czechs Welcome]

I've used mail2tor for a long time and they've been attacked many of times and even brought down but they always seem too pop up again after a while. I use them just because of how they work.

[elliottflz65]

Start using decentralized communication solutions. Plenty of altcoins have some sort of plain text or even encrypted messaging.

The problem with that...is you can't receive emails from signing up to things.