Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Self hosting email is even more of a pain.

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  • SanicHegehog@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good lord yes

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Assuredly.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Move it to a custom domain and host it at Proton or Tuta. That way it’s a pain once, and then you don’t have to switch email addresses ever again.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smart.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless those companies get bought out down the road and trashed, and you need to move to a new one.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you own your own domain, you just switch email providers and redirect your domain to them, and that’s it. No changing accounts everywhere, telling friends to change, etc.

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. I did it recently but the way I did it means moving all 300+ websites that I have logins for is now done in seconds.

  I signed up for SimpleLogin and a custom domain. I then went around creating aliases for all these sites. Changing the sites is indeed the worst part. Still, this is the last time I ever do it. All my aliases were pointing to my Gmail account. Once I’d finished I settled on Proton. I just moved all my aliases to my Proton email address.

  No one knows my Proton email address other than SimpleLogin.

  I haven’t but can now ditch Gmail. I still keep the account for a number of reasons but none are for emails.

  I’ve also been testing Tutamail. I can get aliases to go to multiple mailboxes. I have the ability to respond to the emails from either Tuta or Proton and the recipient is none the wiser of where my mailbox resides.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll keep this all in mind. Thank you.

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• dracs@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It certainly can be a bit involved. When I moved from Gmail address to my own personal domain I did it slowly over a few months.

  I set my Gmail address to automatically forward to my new email address. Then I setup a quick filter which added a label on everything that had been forwarded. Once a week or so I would look at all the emails that had been forwarded and update them to my new email (or delete them if unwanted).

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did the same thing. Took about a year… Just do one site at a time.

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• Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My only criteria when switching email was to be able to use my own domain name. Now I almost don’t receive anything on my gmail and I can transparently switch provider. I think it was a relevant move, I won’t move to self hosting but I could ! :)

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