I have been looking into options too. One option that seemed attractive was called Zoho mail. Any experiences from that?
Bye Bye Gmail
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Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
$50/year for a nice app that I use on a daily basis to make my life better? Worth every penny.
But google still is presumably still training their AIs on your email content regardless if you don't use their frontend.
OPs issue was more clearly directed at "A week or two ago I was surprised to see a Google Gemini summary at the top of my email on my phone", which Mimestream doesn't include.
The rest of the complaint was about a bug that happened, just today, with sorting and spam control.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#53I have more than 20 years of email in my gmail account. How do I even start migrating? And even if I migrate, I will need to keep my address alive and forwarding to my new address at least for a few years. So no privacy gains there either. Does anyone have concrete advice as to how to make the transition?
That's what I thought as well, until I actually started migrating. I learned a few things:
* You probably don't have that many accounts associated with the email, actually. I have about 50 accounts that I care about enough to move, which took me a morning, but it's doable.
* For the same reason, you probably don't have that many (real human) contacts as well. But I could be very wrong. For me, I still occasionally use Gmail to communicate with a few people (like every two months), but that's infrequent enough that I don't care about how bad Gmail is.
* You probably want to review which services you don't regularly use any more, and if you don't have precious data stored with them (you probably shouldn't), consider closing the account instead of changing the email address, if that's an option for the provider.
* You can of course keep checking the original inbox or do forwarding. My experience is that, very quickly, I only need to occasionally check the old email. I still get a few useful emails here and there, but it's manageable. (Plus emails that remind me I should just delete the account)
You can do it.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looked up Mimestream. So it's a subscription-based app that basically gives you nicer UI/UX for your google emails. Oof.
Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
That is not what my comment is about.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looked up Mimestream. So it's a subscription-based app that basically gives you nicer UI/UX for your google emails. Oof.
Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
I agree with your comment fully, but it also doesn't follow the guidelines.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#56Single best thing I've done to get control over my public email:
* add a filter that moves all email with "unsubscribe" into an "unsubscribe" folder
combined with fastmail spam filtering, my inbox actually became usable again instantly...
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#57I’ve migrated my main mail account (gmail) to a custom domain on apple’s icloud.
No regrets (since I am a mac & iphone user).
Plus, I can have a email per website, without exposing my main address.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looked up Mimestream. So it's a subscription-based app that basically gives you nicer UI/UX for your google emails. Oof.
Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
No, you probably haven't read the conversation piece. The post is ultimately about switching providers because Google's service crosses a line from (1) targeted advertising to (2) using personal and confidential information for model training.
A service to clean up the UI does nothing to solve the issue at hand.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#59Just disabled the "Smart features" setting in Gmail. Disabling this feature force-disables these other settings:
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Auto-correct
Pretty dark UX to force users into an all AI or nothing situation.
PS1: Yes, I've paid for Google One for years and I'm not just a free user.
PS2: Yes, these features are entirely possible to provide without training on your specific user data.
Re: Bye Bye Gmail
#60Since we're all posting about our favourite email provider, Purelymail has been one of my best discoveries of the last year or so. Ten dollars a year (though it's expected that price will go up) for as many mailboxes as you like. There's a webmail too in case you don't want your own IMAP client. I migrated every email I had (except an unmigrateable @gmail.com) to Purelymail over Christmas and I couldn't be happier.