Hourly disconnects from idnet webmail

[Wolfy]

Am I the only the person getting increasingly frustrated by the change to idnet webmail made last year that disconnects you every hour?  There's no warning - it just chops the link so if you are in mid-flow composing an email all you can do is copy paste what you've written and then log in again and start the email again. *Very* annoying. 

I haven't seen anybody else on here complain about it so maybe I'm the only person using it regularly.  I think I'm going to have to migrate my email elsewhere though because this is no longer usable.  Annoying as that will likely cost me a couple of hours for set up elsewhere.  

[colirv]

I'm a great believer in having an email address that's not specific to an ISP, not least in case I want to change ISPs. FWIW I find Fastmail very reliable, although I do use an email client.

[Wolfy]

I'm a great believer in having an email address that's not specific to an ISP, not least in case I want to change ISPs.

Quite agree.  Ive been bitten by that one in the past! I have a domain name for my emails but I've been routing them into IdNet thus far as I have found their free webmail client perfectly acceptable up until this recent change.  I also use Thunderbird to periodically download for archiving.  Fastmail looks good, thanks for the tip, 50 bucks a year though to use a domain.  I was considering zoho which is free up to 5GB storage.

[colirv]

Yea, I went with a fastmail.fm address, which is $30. I have my own domain, so perhaps I should have forked out the extra!

[nowster]

You could have had your own .me.uk domain for about a fiver a year, including webmail, from Gandi.net.

[Lance]

I use Zoho and other than the occasional blip it works really well. Their webmail is fine too.

[Adrian]

Runbox is excellent too. Based in Norway with its much stronger privacy laws, and with excellent English language support. On the few occasions I have needed to contact support they have always responded quickly and have been very helpful.