Looks like this guy has a ton of interesting books, I will check this out - thank you!

Thank you, Proton was the provider I was leaning towards. I’ve also heard good things about a small Canadian company called xyz and was debating waiting for Thundermail. But what I’m seeing is that maybe the way to get around this is to obtain and use my own domain so it’s not a hassle to switch if I choose to change providers.

Thank you, that is helpful. I mentioned this in another comment, but an issue that I have run into before is where an institutional outlook email would not connect to Thunderbird. It seemed to be an issue around them not enabling IMAP on their side but I couldn’t understand why I was able to get the email added to Thunderbird and go through 2FA , but the account still would not sync.

I’m not expecting you to act as tech support! Just using this example to demonstrate the type of problem I experienced that made me want to better understand how email works.

That’s helpful, thanks

Thank you, yes I agree and I’m not interested in hosting my own mail server. I’m just realizing that I don’t really understand the difference between a mail provider and a domain, and I’ve run into issues before with different mail protocol settings (like when I tried to connect a school outlook account to Thunderbird and couldn’t get it to work because of (I think) IMAP settings).

It’s something I use all the time, and I’d like to better understand how it works.

Good idea, I will have a look at this. Thank you.

Good question, I don’t think I’m interested in hosting emails myself. The goal is likely going to be to choose a different provider. But that being said, I’m curious about what “hosting email” even means. The outcome I’m looking for is to be able to have enough understanding to compare different service providers and understand the differences between them.

What? The corporations aren’t getting the tariff refunds. Because they already took a payout of 20-30% of the value of the refund from speculators, like the Commerce Secretary’s son Brandon Lutnick, who will be getting the tariff refund.