Hi, Bev,

For more than 2 decades I’ve had a few email accounts with a homegrown ISP and Internet infrastructure company based in Santa Rosa, CA called . The company was started by 2 guys who were in college in Santa Rosa back even before aDSL was a thing. When it was legal to do so, they leased POTS lines from ATT to provide aDSL service until AT&T finally figured out that sonic was doing a better local job than ATT was and cut them off. They’ve since gone into the infrastructure business as well as ISP business, and they’ve now installed symmetrical fiber service for several SF Bay Area and North Bay communities, but for reasons I don’t know, when several of their home town Santa Rosa neighborhoods were incinerated by the Tubbs PG&E-caused wildfire in 2017, The “big boys (ATT, Comcast, etc.) managed to freeze them out of infrastructure provision. They did do this for Google when Google updated their headquarters campus a decade or so ago.

They’ve been a reliable provider for me. When I moved away from Santa Rosa I was able to continue having them host IMAP email accounts, and that’s what my wife uses primarily, with no real issues. They do have storage caps (I think it’s about 5 GB), above which they’ll ramp up their account fees (the base charge for email only is somewhere around $4-$6 per month.

However, I just looked at their website, and it’s possible they no longer offer email only services except to legacy ISP customers who no longer live where they provide the “pipes."

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Jim Robertson