Moving Away from Gmail • Hacker News Board

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by Evan_Hellmuth » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 11:59 PM UTC

thanksforfish wrote: post #67

> A full load with an empty cache takes about 20 seconds on my desktop Looking at the typical Amazon concern that "longer load times cost millions in sales" that you hear, it's crazy to think that gmail doesn't measure the uncached load time (or they do and are happy with 20 seconds). Anecdata: I mostly use my phone for email, so most of the time I load the gmail web interface the cache is cold and it takes this long…

"The once a month I load it" they don't care about you, you're not the typical paying enterprise use case.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by misterhtmlcss » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

meagher wrote: post #70

svnpenn wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You ditched Gmail for... Gsuite. Is this a joke?

The post is about “owning” your email address so you can move, not moving to a new provider.

I got your point Tom and I agree with you 100% that owning your address is just the first big step.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by blntechie » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

Atlassianis launching an email service(Hey) later this year and I have kind of pinned my hopes on it to replace gmail.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by williw » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:06 AM UTC

blntechie wrote: post #93

Atlassianis launching an email service(Hey) later this year and I have kind of pinned my hopes on it to replace gmail.

Isn't Hey.com a Basecamp product?

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by mattkevan » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:19 AM UTC

Been using Soverin after switching from Gmail a few years ago - really happy with the service. Only €40/year for 25gb storage.

www.soverin.net

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by deanmoriarty » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:21 AM UTC

wwweston wrote: post #51

Anyone know of a good alternative for Google Voice? This is the stickiest service for me; there are lots of email options but it doesn't seem there's many services that offer a phone alias with call forwarding and a full web interface for not only voicemail but texting. Rolling my own through Twilio or something seems like an option but then I'm back to paying per text message or other event (I don't mind paying for…

I would love to have a trustworthy alternative to using GV for all my SMS 2FA needs. I switched to custom domain email a while ago, but definitely feel I am still way too exposed to Google in that area.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by twodayslate » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:25 AM UTC

Is there any mail client that has priority inbox like support? That's one reason I still use gmail/g-suite

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by adtac » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:27 AM UTC

fermienrico wrote: post #30

rakoo wrote: post #17

Unaffiliated, I found migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html ) to be extremely easy to set up and having a nice ui to work with. Gives you only the basics but that's all you need. As they say, storage space is not an issue in the 21st century, so the only differentiator between plans is the only thing that matters: the number of outgoing emails. You can have as many domains, as many aliases and as many address…

I've tried Migadu and I much prefer FastMail: https://www.fastmail.com They have full DNS capabilities and very nice UI (minimal JS, loads super fast).

While I'm happy with fastmail, they aren't minimal JS by any means. The website is snappy though.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by TrueDuality » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:35 AM UTC

I've been considering doing a similar thing but I'm in a different situation with Gmail. I hopped on to their business domains when they were initially released (and free) and I'm still grandfathered into their free plan.

I use the account as my primary Google account which includes purchased Android apps, and I make pretty heavy use of that Google Drive with several external organizations.

I'd like to move just my email away to my own hosting, but I'm worried Google might do something sneaky when they realize my MX domains no longer point at them.

I haven't herd of anyone attempting to migrate just their email from a Google on a custom domain while trying to maintain the rest of their account and that fear is the only thing keeping me on Google.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by vzaliva » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:35 AM UTC

nullc wrote: post #63

vzaliva wrote: post #59

email is such a critical part of my digital life that is stability and convenience are the critical factors which can overweight some shortcomings in features and UI. So the additional arguments for staying with Gmail are: 1. Stability. Google as a company is not going anywhere. Can you say the same about smaller companies? 2. Backend infrastructure. Google has some serious backend managed very professionally. I am p…

Considering the importance of email that you mention: What is your plan if google suddenly bans your account? Google might not go anywhere but your access to it might. And when their automation directs them to ban an account, there is essentially no recourse-- they won't even respond to you.

any provider can ban your account. my recourse is to switch my domain. I do not use @gmail.com address - I use my own domain with google mail.