I have been using Thunderbird for my e mail for decades, and always with the IEEE email service as the address. As a result my address on IEEE.org has been my standard identity for at least 30 years, and Thunderbird has been my means of communication with it. However the IEEE has now removed Mozilla and Thunderbird as a means of communication with the e mails arriving on their website. It is now necessary to use a google controlled app which is unfamiliar to me, does not provide service to my personal machine and seems to sort through and remove contacts without asking. Complaining to IEEE seems to be pointless. I personally do not like to have all my contacts and private data passing through Google as it seems intrusive and tries to control every aspect of my internet contact including my cell phone. I understand that this action of IEEE is against all e mail programs other than gmail which is actually running their site I do not know how to extricate myself from the IEEE server while maintaining all of my previous contacts. I thought I should write to outline the problem I am facing and to ask where I can find a reliable e mail server after this debacle. Any suggestions would be appreciated