I've just switched to self-hosted one week ago. I do not want to wait until google decide mails are not profitable enough.
Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
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Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#12I switched to Fastmail.fm [1] around 2 years ago and haven't looked back.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#13Like many people here, I've my personal email address in my own domain, redirected to my gmail.com email address.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#14I switched to Fastmail.fm [1] around 2 years ago and haven't looked back. [1] http://www.fastmail.fm
Did it start hosting mails and setting up my domains like Google apps or any other mail provider, with of course webmail and IMAP?
What about the interface(webmail I mean)? Wasn't very encouraging at I had tried their service some time back.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#15For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
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#16I used to use a self hosted email address, but it just lead to confusion.
It was much easier to pick a team and run with it.
I picked Google.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#17No. Using email with your own domain is very important, especially if you use it for contacting a real person: it unties your email address from a provider. The biggest benefit is that you could switch provider very easily without ever changing your email.
Once you've done so, it no longer matters which email service you are using. If the service ever decided to shut down or shut you off, you can just switch to another service without ever worrying about losing contact.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#18For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
Well, that's what I currently have set up, my daily email is GMail, but I also have my domain's email forwarding to my Gmail.
Just because my hosting providers ATMail Open service blows, ridiculously difficult to use on iOS, and a hell to setup in a mail client.
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#19No, I use yandex.mail. (for the curious: https://mail.yandex.com/ )
Care to elaborate on the why?
Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
#20For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
that's what I'm doing, but people see both adresses (via mydomain.com)