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Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by unixhero » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

tabtab wrote: post #15

virusduck wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to say it, but Outlook is actually really nice.

The desktop version or the web version?

All four

Android

ios

Web

Desktop

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by Waterluvian » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 9:47 PM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #21

tabtab wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The desktop version or the web version?

All four Android ios Web Desktop

I hate hate hate web outlook. I click on new emails and they often don't register as having been "read". Drives me up the wall.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by reaperducer » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 9:48 PM UTC

jmole wrote: post #18

Why doesn't anyone every mention actually paying google and using GSuite, instead of using their free service?

I pay the $5/month for GSuite just to get the spam filter.

I'd happily pay someone else $5/month for a similar service, but I can't find a provider that both meets the same price point and has equal spam filtering.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by oarfish » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

codewritinfool wrote: post #4

Not using Fastmail, but I'm working on this now. Bye, Google.

Isn't fastmail an Australian company? If so then they'll have to backdoor all software in the future since parliament passed these insane new surveillance laws.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by coldnose » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

If anyone's gone through this trouble already, care to explain how you did it? I've been thinking about rolling a VPS with postfix/dovecot, but it seems like such a hassle to maintain, and I'm not super confident in my ability to secure it.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by ggm » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC

The example mbox sender frequency script is measuring the mbone list at isi. I was on that list back in the nineties.

Here's a video from one of the top posters.

https://vimeo.com/56349011

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by depa » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

blueberry_47 wrote: post #13

Any recommendation on an iOS mail app. I use the Apple one, which is fine if uninteresting. The Fastmail app is not very modern looking which I superficially care about. Any reasonable looking non-Apple mail app reads my email or collects my data.

Airmail or Spark.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by sudarshan_sar » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 11:52 PM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #20

jmole wrote: post #18

Why doesn't anyone every mention actually paying google and using GSuite, instead of using their free service?

Or using adblock

I think the author is concerned with a much deeper issue than a simple ad blocker.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by dewey » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 11:53 PM UTC

oarfish wrote: post #24

codewritinfool wrote: post #4

Not using Fastmail, but I'm working on this now. Bye, Google.

Isn't fastmail an Australian company? If so then they'll have to backdoor all software in the future since parliament passed these insane new surveillance laws.

Email is plain text anyway so why would it matter? If you want to keep it private you’ll have to encrypt it anyway and then all their backdoors wouldn’t change that.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by craftyguy » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 12:31 AM UTC

coldnose wrote: post #25

If anyone's gone through this trouble already, care to explain how you did it? I've been thinking about rolling a VPS with postfix/dovecot, but it seems like such a hassle to maintain, and I'm not super confident in my ability to secure it.

Find an email provider, sign up/pay for service, and use it. I recommend buying a domain, so you can have a fairly static email address even if you end up changing providers later on.

Rolling your own email service never seemed worth it to me. You'll have to deal with backups/recovery, maintenance, and any quirks associated with the big mail places rejecting mails from your service. I'm almost certain someone will chime with "but it's not bad!", well, it's not bad until you're on vacation and suddenly your mail service goes down and now you have to either go without mail (stuff sent to you will be rejected), or stop what you are doing to fix it.