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Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by dang »

svnpenn wrote: post #67
ricccardo wrote: post #55

> In exchange for free mails, would you let your postman open your letters, read them, and insert ads related to their contents? Note that this is not the case anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html We never did that for G Suite, but with this announcement we also stopped doing it for consumer. Disclaimer: Googler working on Gmail. Please stay :-)

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

Please don't be a jerk on HN, regardless of how you feel about email clients.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

PenguinCoder wrote: post #126
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.

$3/mo for unlimited number of inbox/addresses, or $3/mo per inbox/addresses? Note, I'm not talking aliases, I'm talking 'per user, entirely separate inbox/login'

Up to 10 domains, no stated limit on separate inboxes, with entirely separate inbox/login. The 10GB storage is shared, obviously, with quotas configurable.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by ianmf »

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.

I do this. I use Gsuite but not their email. I changed the MX records of the domain to the other email host.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by distances »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #91
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.

I also have only apps and devices purchased directly from Google. I wonder what makes the difference.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by extra88 »

PenguinCoder wrote: post #126
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.

$3/mo for unlimited number of inbox/addresses, or $3/mo per inbox/addresses? Note, I'm not talking aliases, I'm talking 'per user, entirely separate inbox/login'

Dreamhost Shared Unlimited has no user limits for $7.95/month (paid annually) and I think that includes one free domain name registration.

https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by acct1771 »

txtsd wrote: post #99
amaccuish wrote: post #98

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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.

Anticompetitive practices designed as strong security.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by xaedes »

borgel wrote: post #77
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.

Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...

Yea by importing imap into your gmail account... That would be pointless here, but maybe explains why you assumed it was possible.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by blueberry_47 »

eafkuor wrote: post #89
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.

What’s wrong with uninteresting? You can use it to read and send emails just fine and it looks ok, what else do you need? Honest question

Nothing wrong with it. I just like options -- colors, fonts, etc. I also don't expect Apple to innovate much on their mail client.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by alphabettsy »

growtofill wrote: post #119
alphabettsy wrote: post #42

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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.

And Gmail uses OAuth. How does that change that fact you are giving some 3rd party access to your email?

My main concers are why they would provide a free service and what security they have in place.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by climb_stealth »

maxxxxx wrote: post #65
climb_stealth wrote: post #39

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My fastmail calendar experiences: - timezone support is great and an explicit feature. You can pick the time zone when adding events and there is a dropdown at the top to view the calendar in the respective selected timezone. - you can scroll the calendar view flexibly and not just switch from month to month. You can for example scroll to see half of previous and half of current month. This fills me with so much joy…

Does it allow to omit timezone for an event so it always shows at the same time? It drives me crazy when I plan a trip to a different timezone that Google always shifts the times when I am there.

Just had a quick look and you can do that. You can set the time zone as Floating Time and it will be independent from the time zone.
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