Ok, got a cloud storage solution sorted, now the final piece in the severing of ties with MS, I need a good email account for Linux.

I'll probably need one that will allow forwarding from Outlook.com short tem, as I am sure I won't get the same email name, but I am happy to suffer a little bit of inconvenience for a while to get out from under MS.

ANY and all suggestions welcome.

I don't use MS O/S, not since 1999, but I do use web mail, I have 3 separate accounts, Gmail / Yahoo / Hotmail, they have served me well since the mid 90's, (as an ordinary computer user).

Hi,

You should search for "free email providers"; https://www.connectivasystems.com/free-email-providers/
The client you choose will depend on the Gnu/Linux you select. My Slackware64 14.2 KDE provides several to choose from. I do use Thunderbird for ease of use. You could use Gmail, Yahoo or whatever with your browser of choice for web mail.

Try a few to see how it feels for you.

Have fun & enjoy Gnu/Linux!

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thanks for those - Trying to get away from all things corporate as much as poss, so gmail, yahoo et al, are probs off the table.

Maybe Thunderbird perhaps??

Going to give Runbox a try.

I'll throw a plug in for fastmail. I've had my fastmail for years (which is why mine is still fastmail.fm instead of fastmail.com), but I'm on the "premium" package that's a MASSIVE $15/year. Easy setup of IMAP so I can read manage webmail from Thunderbird, their webmail layout is nice too, though. And the few times I've had issues with something their support has been excellent.

Proton mail +1

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Cool, thx for the comments... Proton Mail looks interesting. Fastmail is US based, so for me, is temporarily not appealing. Runbox is only on a month by month, so easily cancellable..Might register with Proton as just in case option

If you have any use for encrypted email, then a paid proton mail account is great (might be available on the free plan). I've got one of their tiers that include Proton Mail and Proton VPN (including the multi-country hop VPN connections) and it works REALLY well (although if you use the multi-country hop your bandwidth is pathetically bad). But I really only use the email when I need to send encrypted emails, so I've never obviously set up IMAP (I'm guessing it probably does support it), which is my biggest thing for using "normal" webmail since I'm not the BIGGEST fan of webmail.

Protonmail+3!

You can set up a free Protonmail almost effortlessly, and well worth the time to simply try it out. It does support encrypted mail as I recall (I now use all paid accounts as well and forget the differences with the free).

Try it! If you like consider supporting it with a paid account - money well spent IMO!

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I know, right!!

Yes I did sign up for the free account at Proton - a thing I liked was being able to nominate my phone as the backup for password resets etc, instead of another email account I am am ditching. In this case gmail. The others required an email (well at least as far as I could see )

I might even cancel the Runbox (has 14 day cool off) and opt for the paid Proton after endorsements like that!

I have been using Evolution for the past year for my work email and it's been fine. I had dabbled with it years ago several times but this time it seems to be stable enough and offers pretty much all I used with Outlook. My company uses Windows and Office like most but I've been happily getting by with Debian 10.5 on my laptop, accessing network shares, office documents and as said email without any issues, so it's an option if you wanted to keep your Outlook email account going.

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In the United States, at least, many ISP's make email services as part of their standard package. I've used my ISP for my primary email account and found it quite satisfactory (except when I moved to another state and had to change everything;(, but that was a long time ago.

Late I've been using Thunderbird as my email client and have found it quite satisfactory (it's much improved from the last time I tried it). I also quite like Claws Mail.

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You seem to be confusing email providers (gmail etc.) with email client software (thunderbird).
Email providers are not operating system specific, it just has to support IMAP protocol (or POP3). Also some (gmail mostly) use authentication processes that not all email clients support.
I don't know much about that, but as an email client I've been using evolution for quite a while now (after having used pretty much everything else before that: thunderbird, claws, sylpheed...) and heartily recommend it.