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Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by climb_stealth »

threatofrain wrote: post #80
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…

Yes but the question is whether you can have two timezones for the same event , such as for a flight across time zones. For Google Calendar this has been the case for awhile.

Nope, I don't see that option. There's only one timezone to select when adding a new event.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by krageon »

extra88 wrote: post #135
PenguinCoder wrote: post #126

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$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/

If you're going to host your own email for privacy reasons, don't get a package at a US provider.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by EnderMB »

jackewiehose wrote: post #45

> First, I strongly suggest you buy a domain name, so that you really own your mail address Any opinions on that? I did so years ago (mostly for the reason of being independent of a mail provider) but meanwhile I realized you never "own" a domain. It's always just rented. It would be bad if someone gets in control of my domain so I just hope this won't happen before I'm dead... And even then it could be bad if it hap…

My last name is a word in the name of a popular drink company and depending on the domain extension used, I've had some real issues trying to buy a domain that uses my last name.

The last domain I tried to buy was ".codes", and within about ten minutes my domain purchase was revoked. After arguing it with Namecheap, they said that I would need to legally dispute their claim over the domain name to be allowed to purchase it.

I like to think that buying a domain means ownership, but it is clearly a rental model, and it is geared towards those that can protect that entity without competition.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by krageon »

bpye wrote: post #118
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #93

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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.

There is a fork of K9 that uses material design. It's in f-droid.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by krageon »

joshuamorton wrote: post #123
craftyguy wrote: post #122

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As another person mentioned, if you have gmail and visit here, google knows about every purchase you have made, the price you paid, etc: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases They're not reading your emails, right? How else would they know this much information?

That's not what I said. I'd ask that you reread my comment. Your emails aren't used for advertising purposes. There are a host of features that require varying levels of email analysis (from spam detection to putting flight times on your calendar to reminders that you'll be receiving a package). None of those things require targeting advertisements based on email content. And that's what isn't happening.

Perhaps not in the email interface itself, but you would be hard pressed to convince anyone that it's not shoved in a machine learning model somewhere.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by joshuamorton »

krageon wrote: post #145
joshuamorton wrote: post #123

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That's not what I said. I'd ask that you reread my comment. Your emails aren't used for advertising purposes. There are a host of features that require varying levels of email analysis (from spam detection to putting flight times on your calendar to reminders that you'll be receiving a package). None of those things require targeting advertisements based on email content. And that's what isn't happening.

Perhaps not in the email interface itself, but you would be hard pressed to convince anyone that it's not shoved in a machine learning model somewhere.

I mean it's literally explicity in the privacy policy. They always kept email based targeting separate from broader data and stopped using it at all for ad targetting a year or two ago, seemingly because corporate (gsuite) users were concerned that the data might be used anyway or something, I'm not really sure.

I don't think you can get more explicit than "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change."

[1]: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by krageon »

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.

It's possible your emails are malformed or contain weird headers, that gets them flagged very heavily as well.

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by nilact »

marklyon wrote: post #127
nilact wrote: post #95

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.

And an unreliable registrar that takes them down at will.

It seems that issue was related to automated algorithm. For long term solution and this never happens again, Zoho decided to be registrar themselves.

More information can be found out at:

https://www.zoho.com/service-updates/blog/update-on-zoho-ser...

Re: Leave Gmail in 10 steps

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Post by [deleted] »

climb_stealth wrote: post #141
threatofrain wrote: post #80

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Yes but the question is whether you can have two timezones for the same event , such as for a flight across time zones. For Google Calendar this has been the case for awhile.

Nope, I don't see that option. There's only one timezone to select when adding a new event.

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