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Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:44 AM UTC

petilon wrote: post #44

If you have Gmail click this link, it is an eye opener: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases Google knows every online purchase you ever made, every line item, the price you paid, the address it was delivered to, and so on. Keep in mind that Facebook and Google also combine this data with offline data about you purchased from other companies, to complete the picture. UPDATE: Here's an example of Google purchasing d…

I have exactly two purchases listed there, for apps from the Play Store.

Good infosec and blocking all trackers pays off.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by justaj » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:45 AM UTC

Splines wrote: post #69

svnpenn wrote: post #67

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maybe fix your garbage email client? http://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

That's why I use the basic html version of gmail. It loads instantly. Going to the new one is agony.

Have you noticed that you have to enable JS and XHR in order to login to the HTML view? Otherwise I get a "Corrupted Content Error".

That's pretty strange.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:47 AM UTC

bpye wrote: post #38

I have no complaints with Fastmail, great experience. Android mail clients however - I really wish K-9 Mail felt more modern, it's perfectly usable but the ancient UI makes it less nice to use.

K-9 Mail's old-school UI is one of the reasons I keep using it. Straight-forward and to the point, no silly gimmicks.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:51 AM UTC

PenguinCoder wrote: post #70

rckclmbr wrote: post #51

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At $10/year it would cost $800 for your lifetime. Not too shabby to put control in your hands

More like $10 a year for the domain and $20/mo or more for the actual email hosting and provider.

$20/month?

I pay less than $3/month for web/mail hosting, full cPanel setup with 10GB storage and unlimited traffic.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by nilact » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:53 AM UTC

I wonder why nobody mentioned zoho.com (from India) and products they offer. They have docs as well as other apps that any business needs and no privacy issues.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by Yetanfou » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 9:57 AM UTC

bpye wrote: post #38

I have no complaints with Fastmail, great experience. Android mail clients however - I really wish K-9 Mail felt more modern, it's perfectly usable but the ancient UI makes it less nice to use.

Try K9 Material [1], an unofficial fork using Material design. It works just like the regular version but looks a bit more in-line with the rest of modern Android.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9.material/

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by amaccuish » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

diffeomorphism wrote: post #41

virusduck wrote: post #14

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

Heavily disagree. The web version on mobile (android; both firefox and chrome) feels slow and works badly on low bandwidth connections and touch support feels badly designed (e.g. selecting multiple messages, working with attachments). On desktops/laptops the imap support is also subpar with problems with showing multiple drafts for one email in the web version. This would maybe be excusable for a small startup, but…

I think they're referring to the Outlook app, not the service

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by amaccuish » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 10:44 AM UTC

txtsd wrote: post #84

amaccuish wrote: post #8

Moved from gmail to a VPS with dovecot, postfix and SOGo (provides xDAV, webui and activesync). Never looked back.

How do you deal with emails sent to gmail getting labeled as spam by default? Also, qq.com and mail.ru block mails citing IP frequency limited and spam message rejected, respectively. I've found no way around these. I just send one personal email a day, on most days.

I've never had that. My setup mostly did DKIM and all that for me. Never had mail arrive at the other end into spam. For incoming, I use rspamd. It's taken some training but it's a lot better now.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by txtsd » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 12:33 PM UTC

amaccuish wrote: post #98

txtsd wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you deal with emails sent to gmail getting labeled as spam by default? Also, qq.com and mail.ru block mails citing IP frequency limited and spam message rejected, respectively. I've found no way around these. I just send one personal email a day, on most days.

I've never had that. My setup mostly did DKIM and all that for me. Never had mail arrive at the other end into spam. For incoming, I use rspamd. It's taken some training but it's a lot better now.

My SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are on point. No idea why it goes to gmail's spam.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by adipasquale » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 12:37 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #36

gnasr wrote: post #2

This article looks like an ad for fastmail.com

apologies for being off topic, but: I am a long time Fastmail customer, but the law passed in Australia yesterday has me somewhat concerned. Fastmail is an Australian company. Anyone else concerned?

Author here, I had completely missed that news. It is a bit concerning, you are totally right. I have edited the article to mention it and alternatives, thank you.