Change mom's email from AOL to ...? (1 Viewer)

My mom's an AOL email user of 15-some years. She'd used their custom email app,I action on Windows forever. On her Mac and iPhone and ipad, I think she's using standard Apple mail to send / receive her AOL mail.

If she were interested in changing email providers, should she? And switch to what?

What is wrong with AOL?

Only 15 years? I was on AOL at the beginning.

I use various email servers and AOL functions with all of them.

Isn't Apple dropping AOL email as an iTunes and or iCould login method? Thought I read that somewhere recently...

AOL sucks. Maybe you would want to go to YahooMail!

schan1269 said:

What is wrong with AOL?
Only 15 years? I was on AOL at the beginning.
I use various email servers and AOL functions with all of them.

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When she had to use that horrid Windows interface, that was a good reason to switch. Now that she's on a Mac and it works like any other email service, it seems reasonable.

But she was complaining about service problems lately and wondering if it's time to switch?

Service issues?

Like what? It is an email client. Email clients were sorted out 25 years ago.

If she's not receiving "one-off" emails...AOL spam default is tighter than everyone else, which is the main reason I keep it.

Not sure of the details. Things like emails not being delivered, or having significant delays in arriving. I'll try to find out when we talk tonight.

If she is on a Mac, why not an iCloud address?

Ronald Epstein said:

If she is on a Mac, why not an iCloud address?

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That's an option, and I hadn't given it much thought before. I need to follow up with her. Mom hasn't complained about her aol email the past week, so I don't know if it was a temporary problem or she's still having trouble.s

My family members have been slowly, reluctantly moving to Gmail at my insistence, from AOL Mail.

Gmail and Apple Mail don't play great together. Plus, Google. So I don't want to recommend that.

I'm no expert...but was wondering why people weren't recommending Gmail in this instance.


Now I know!

Because Google. And Gmail works GREAT on iOS devices. Apple mail on iOS is a dumb combination with a browser based mailer like Gmail tho, don't do it. Browser on the desktop and mail on iOS and you are done, so long as you can live with Google.

Mike Frezon said:

I'm no expert...but was wondering why people weren't recommending Gmail in this instance.

Now I know!

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I'm reducing, as reasonable, the amount of Google in my life. So I don't care to specifucally recommend gmail to my mom

Because Google. And Gmail works GREAT on iOS devices. Apple mail on iOS is a dumb combination with a browser based mailer like Gmail tho, don't do it. Browser on the desktop and mail on iOS and you are done, so long as you can live with Google.

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For good or bad, Apple doesn't let us change default ios apps, and I don't want to juggle multiple email apps for such a basic utility. (It's bad enough that I've now got a Facebook Messenger to contend with). And Gmail doesn't work great with Apple Mail on either os.

I disagree. I run 7 gmail accounts on iOS phone and tablet just fine. I formatted it a little wonky earlier in the thread but gmail on Apple Mail for iOS works great for me and I am definitely a gmail power user with labels, extensions and automatic actions occurring in the browser when I am on one, which is rare.

I don't like how email can't be deleted from gmail in Apple or ios mail. Which means "deleted" email continues showing up in search results and sort-by sender.

More weirdly, the two-factor auth was also causing me new problems, and I changed email providers to be able to send email again.

Add me to the "less Google in my life, the better" chorus. The less data-mining by them of my online life, the better.

While I use my gmail address a lot, its been relegated to being used for Message board accounts and various logins. I could use less google in my life as well.


Used to run my own server but got tired of that after a while as well.


there are several free ones

gmail

Outlook.com

hotmail

yahoo

icloud

DaveF said:

I don't like how email can't be deleted from gmail in Apple or ios mail. Which means "deleted" email continues showing up in search results and sort-by sender.

More weirdly, the two-factor auth was also causing me new problems, and I changed email providers to be able to send email again.

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You can, of course, delete gmail on iPhone.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/23/ios-7-how-to-easily-delete-not-archive-your-gmail-messages-in-mail/