Leave Gmail in 10 steps • Hacker News Board

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by timwis » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

dsamarin wrote: post #107

timwis wrote: post #106

The feature that makes it so hard for me to leave Gmail is the automatic bundling of promotions, updates, social, forums. That has made managing my inbox actually manageable. Is that any way to get a feature with another email provider?

It will be hard for me to leave Google Inbox because of the peaceful feeling I get from easily snoozing or marking my emails as done by the end of the day. I don't know if I will ever feel as accomplished and with as little distraction.

Snooze is a bit easier; boomerang is a service that offers that for at least outlook as well.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 3:25 PM UTC

beagle3 wrote: post #105

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$20/month? I pay less than $3/month for web/mail hosting, full cPanel setup with 10GB storage and unlimited traffic.

Which provider?

AzeHosting, a Danish provider. UnoEuro is similarly affordable.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by chrnad » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

Does anyone know if you can disable email on GSuite (i.e. change MX on my domain to Fastmail), but keep the rest? I use my GSuite account login on a lot of sites, I've got shared photo albums etc.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by dual_basis » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

chrnad wrote: post #113

Does anyone know if you can disable email on GSuite (i.e. change MX on my domain to Fastmail), but keep the rest? I use my GSuite account login on a lot of sites, I've got shared photo albums etc.

Yes

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by rimliu » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

berkut wrote: post #66

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.

I've just switched from gmail to fastmail, and I'm not very impressed with Fastmail's iOS app (it's pretty slow to start / open / retrieve emails) or the lack of offline support it has. TBH, other than the annoying ability to too easily swipe emails left and expose the Archive green button, I really liked the Gmail app - it was extremely fast and easy to use. Anyone have any suggestions on a mail client for iOS? I ca…

Outlook. Seriously.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by jcelerier » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 5:58 PM 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…

huh, don't know for others but for me it doesn't have one hundredth of what I bought

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by benbristow » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 6:07 PM 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…

> You don't have any purchases

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by bpye » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #93

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.

I don't mind it for usability however I would love if it actually felt in place (ie. material design), rather than feeling so alien.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by growtofill » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

alphabettsy wrote: post #42

depa wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Airmail or Spark.

Spark stores your email credentials and some of your mail on their servers. No-go for me.

Fastmail’s per-app password is a feature to handle this.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by hyperman1 » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 8:43 PM UTC

adetrest wrote: post #108

ian0 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your purchases and reservations are brought together from across your Google Account, from sources including: Orders placed using Google services, like Google Play Store, Google Express, or through the Google Assistant. Order receipts or confirmations received in Gmail.[1] Wow I have a bunch gained from scraping my emails (there is an info icon that tells you the source). Mostly larger multinational merchants (Amaz…

They probably let you see it because of gdpr, and wouldn't have before that law?

I'm not sure. This is not a data collection, it is a filter on an existing data collection.

The data itself are your emails, which they keep because they are your email provider, and they already show them to you whenever you want them.

Which provides a very interesting workaround for google against the GDPR. But IANAL so probably I am missing something.