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Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by schappim »

dotcoma wrote: post #27
chunkles wrote: post #2

Having seen people argue about this here before, my guess is you're going to get one of three recommendations. Zoho ( https://zoho.com ), Fastmail ( https://fastmail.com , Proton ( https://proton.me )

Or Tutanota https://tutanota.com/

But not when you're placing e-commerce orders. Tutanota is often flagged because the same privacy-preserving features are also used for online fraud.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by atraac »

gepardi wrote: post #4

Fastmail Supports custom domains and I believe has a tool to migrate emails away from Gmail

I also use Fastmail with custom domain and I alias every single new account I make to know who sells my data. Through last two years I think there's been only one major incident that made me unable to see my emails and it lasted like an hour or two. Otherwise it works properly, it's fast, Calendar integrates nicely with everything else I have(like Apple and Google calendars), search is insanely quick, it's easy to save/browse through files. It's also not that expensive for what you get.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by switch007 »

Just a warning that owning your domain means also owning the security of the domain.

If you lose access to eg gmail or they ban you, nobody you care about will access your email.

If your domain gets hijacked or you fail to renew, now a bad actor could receive all your email forever.

(I use my own domain for email)

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by smohare »

olavgg wrote: post #13

I would like to add Microsoft Office 365, most of you would like access to the Office applications. If not, that is fine as you can still pay less. You also get Azure Active Directory included for free, which you can use for single sign on applications you have(up to 10 applications). I am founder for a new startup and we decided to go for Office 365 as our email service because it just made most sense for our busine…

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Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by LoganDark »

atraac wrote: post #33
gepardi wrote: post #4

Fastmail Supports custom domains and I believe has a tool to migrate emails away from Gmail

I also use Fastmail with custom domain and I alias every single new account I make to know who sells my data. Through last two years I think there's been only one major incident that made me unable to see my emails and it lasted like an hour or two. Otherwise it works properly, it's fast, Calendar integrates nicely with everything else I have(like Apple and Google calendars), search is insanely quick, it's easy to sa…

> I alias every single new account I make to know who sells my data.

I wonder if that's ever happened yet. I do the same with Firefox Relay, it's only $1/month to keep using my existing email. I have probably hundreds of accounts that haven't had their emails updated yet.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by the_third_wave »

lewo wrote: post #17

First, you should own your domain, to own your email identity. With a domain, Gandi (my employer) includes two mail addresses: imap, roundcube, sogo, sieve filters, aliases,... https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email

...or host your own server using your own domain. This is what I do, also using Gandi by the way (their API makes it easy to keep all the required DNS details up to date without manual intervention). As long as you make sure outgoing mail is handled by a smart host (question: does Gandi offer this service for those whose IAP does not offer smart host services?) and all the required DNS records are present and correct your mail should find its destination without more problems than when using one of the commercial providers. With Spamassassin and greylistd spam is no longer a problem as long as you take care not to drop your private mail address everywhere. Using your own mail server you can give every commercial/government organisation you communicate with a special address, e.g. firstname-companyname@example.org or companyname.your_initials@example.org:

   irs.djt@example.org
   johndoe-twitter@example.org
   scammycompany-jrrt@example.org
That way you can block any address which is being abused while knowing who leaked it. Just make sure not to use your private address - which you use with friends and family - to untrusted entities.

Source: I've been doing this for about 26 years without major problems

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by psychphysic »

dotcoma wrote: post #27
chunkles wrote: post #2

Having seen people argue about this here before, my guess is you're going to get one of three recommendations. Zoho ( https://zoho.com ), Fastmail ( https://fastmail.com , Proton ( https://proton.me )

Or Tutanota https://tutanota.com/

I use it with a custom domain and a catch all setup
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