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Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

contravariant wrote: post #152
masnick wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should take a look at https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/ . They say it doesn’t affect their customers.

While that's true it's also because they don't use E2E. Which I guess makes any discussion about encryption backdoors rather pointless.

If you're worried about E2E then I'm not sure what options you have other than maybe proton mail (and then only if both parties are using it) or GPG-encrypting messages, at which point host is irrelevant.

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Post by Daegalus »

crispinb wrote: post #49
Daegalus wrote: post #46

This is some good info, I personally still use GMail and used to use GSuite. Migrating from GSuite -> Gmail was a nightmare in of itself, but I found a service that helped me keep my custom domain emails and no longer feel like a second class citizen. So even if someday Google decides to kill my Account, I can just reroute my domain to a new service with not issue. The service I used is ImprovMX. YOu just setup your…

GYOB?

Sorry, I meant GYB: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by pferde »

octotoad wrote: post #167
jw14 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree $3/month is reasonable for email, but since the encryption backdoor laws passed in Australia in Dec 2018, I've been avoiding Australian software.

While the legislation introduced by the Australian government is certainly worrying and should never had been enacted, I've always operated under the assumption that if any government agency around the world really wants to get to my encrypted data or traffic, they'll likely be able to use/abuse some sort of loophole in their current processes and laws anyway.

Not if you are the only one holding the encryption keys to your content.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by steelframe »

I used to run my own mail server, and that very nearly cost me a career-changing job at Microsoft. My reply to a hiring manager for a team I really wanted to work on went into Microsoft's bit bucket because (I'm guessing) their spam detectors didn't like my own domain and my own instance of Exim sending out my emails. When a recruiter (thankfully) followed up and scheduled me for on-site interviews, that manager mentioned that he never got a reply when he emailed me. That was the point where I realized that email had gone the way of fiefdoms, and if I wanted really important emails to make it through, I'd need to choose which castle I wanted to handle my email.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by crispinb »

Can anyone recommend tools for removing email duplicates? I have a mess of archived email from different sources I intend one day to consolidate onto a decent IMAP provider. Over the years I've done all kinds of forwarding from one account to another, been in & out of gmail,etc. It's a bit of a mess, and consolidation would result in me using much more storage than I need because of dupes.

A trustworthy deduping tool (whether operating via IMAP, or on local maildirs) would be useful. I've seen a couple around when I've searched in the past, but would like a recommendation from experience before running something over some gigs of archived mail.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by threatofrain »

octotoad wrote: post #167
jw14 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree $3/month is reasonable for email, but since the encryption backdoor laws passed in Australia in Dec 2018, I've been avoiding Australian software.

While the legislation introduced by the Australian government is certainly worrying and should never had been enacted, I've always operated under the assumption that if any government agency around the world really wants to get to my encrypted data or traffic, they'll likely be able to use/abuse some sort of loophole in their current processes and laws anyway.

If that's the case then why would the Australian government need to open the door even wider? The implication is that privacy laws pose inconveniences.

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by tehlike »

pferde wrote: post #174
octotoad wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the legislation introduced by the Australian government is certainly worrying and should never had been enacted, I've always operated under the assumption that if any government agency around the world really wants to get to my encrypted data or traffic, they'll likely be able to use/abuse some sort of loophole in their current processes and laws anyway.

Not if you are the only one holding the encryption keys to your content.

Email cannot really be secure, the recipient also has the copy, so holding encryption keys is meh?

Re: Moving Away from Gmail

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Post by johntash »

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…

Rolling my own through Twilio is something I've been considering as well, so I'd also be interested if anyone knows of a good alternative.
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