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Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by graemep »

seiferteric wrote: post #12
readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

I have my own domain and my email ends with a .casa TLD and it not only causes confusion, I have had some websites reject it as invalid.

I think lesser known TLDs are the problem. I have had a .net domain and used the email address (and its self hosted these days, which has been a problem with sending to hotmail) and have never had it rejected or confuse anyone.

ON the other hand I had a website with a ccTLD and one guy kept trying to add .com to it - his own country's ccTLD!

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by graemep »

jocoda wrote: post #15

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web. I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon. Sad. But so it goes.

Not true for me. All businesses of any size, and even most small businesses, that email me have their own domain. Individuals use a variety of services, and even one or two non-geeks use their own domains.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by steelframe »

readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

I own my own domain in the .us TLD, and I've been using it for my email for the past 20 years. When I applied for an "Electronic Travel Authorisation" (ETA) to enter Great Britain earlier this year the app flat-out rejected my email address as invalid.

Usually, when that sort of thing happens, I just choose to take my business elsewhere or use my time in a different way. However it really ups the ante when a nation-state refuses entry based on that category of technical incompetence.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by sandcat_ »

readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

Really? I've never really had this. I occasionally get a "huh, is this right?" in person but even that is rare now. And in the past decade, I've had my email rejected by a form maybe, once? twice?

And most of the confusion in person seems to be down to my choice of TLD: .es and .io (I'm neither from Spain nor the Chagos Archipelago).

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by tim333 »

jocoda wrote: post #15

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web. I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon. Sad. But so it goes.

I have emails from gmail, hotmail, yahoo and my own domain. Also many browsers. I use Google stuff mostly because it works best. It's sort of how the free market is supposed to work?

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by bestouff »

sandcat_ wrote: post #24
readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

Really? I've never really had this. I occasionally get a "huh, is this right?" in person but even that is rare now. And in the past decade, I've had my email rejected by a form maybe, once? twice? And most of the confusion in person seems to be down to my choice of TLD: .es and .io (I'm neither from Spain nor the Chagos Archipelago).

Same same. People raise an eyebrow, ensure they got it correctly then they move on.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by heltale »

Insanity wrote: post #3

Given they accept any input that presumably matches a regex it doesn’t matter which one you choose. But if you are looking for a new email provider and de-Google your life, I’m pretty with ProtonMail and their other offerings. Also moved my 2FA and Password manager to them, alongside their VPN.

Has anyone tried Migadu? I was wondering whether it’d be a good option for if I wanted to use it for my business.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by ghssds »

jocoda wrote: post #15

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web. I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon. Sad. But so it goes.

With that attitude, certainly.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by bestouff »

graemep wrote: post #22
jocoda wrote: post #15

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web. I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon. Sad. But so it goes.

Not true for me. All businesses of any size, and even most small businesses, that email me have their own domain. Individuals use a variety of services, and even one or two non-geeks use their own domains.

Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

I get no end of confusion because mine is firstname@firstnamelastname.com. People have told me that isn’t correct.
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