Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
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Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
#2how is this different from using PGP with Gmail?
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Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
#4Congrats for the move. "Away from Gmail" is by itself a happy title.
The report is also very good and that should be a service every other mail service could provide to people who want to move away from G'rab'mail.
Another curiosity is that you use the same password I use for everything: xxx
Simple to remember and nobody will ever figure that out! Wink! :)
Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
#5how is this different from using PGP with Gmail?
As far as I know, Gmail doesn’t allow saving PGP keys or using them to write new emails, whereas mailbox.org integrates the entire PGP service and to send an email, even from iOS where PGP apps are "ugly," you just need to do it from the web interface.
Anyway I wrote the details in the post.
Edit: I have to mention that I generated my PGP keys locally and then imported to Mailbox.Org
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#6One thing I'd recommend is getting your own domain for email (looks like mailbox.org allows custom domains with some plans). You never know what will happen to your email provider in the future, so having the freedom to move your domain to a different provider is valuable.
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#7I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google about 5 years ago, so I decided to take the leap to Fastmail and haven’t looked back.
Didn’t need to do anything special for the migration. The in house importer they offer pulled over 80GB in a day and I was set from there.
Fastmail isn’t going to give you end to end encryption - but - I think just shedding a major Google service is a massive win privacy-wise.
I remember briefly looking into Proton but the search was awful.
Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
#8how is this different from using PGP with Gmail?
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#9Something to be aware of if you're considering mailbox.org:
https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...
Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
#10I wish there was something like cell phone number porting for email addresses. I don’t know how it would work on the technical side or how you could secure something like that, but the idea of switching email providers is too daunting, so I stay with Gmail despite abandoning all my other Google accounts and services.