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Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?

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#23
Yes. I don't care at all about the privacy. I do care, very much, that a lot of my digital life is tied to a Google account, and losing that account will effectively kill my online presence. (see, for example, people who've had their Google account hacked and then lost everything else.)

There doesn't appear to be an easy way to export all of that stuff. I'd really like a way to export all my logins and passwords to a CSV file. Yes, I'm aware just how risky storing that file is - I can encrypt it and store it on a USB stick; print it out and keep it in my 'read on death' file with my will; etc.

Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?

#24
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I 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.

They've reimplemented their web interface to be all AJAXy since few months ago with discussion view and all similar to the old Gmail. Although I'm IMAP user, I don't feel their new web interface is lacking anything.

You can setup your own domain with Fastmail with the $39.95/yr plan.

Re: Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?

#25
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Yes, but not for long. Migrating to a self-hosted mail server is one of my top priorities [1] for 2013. [1] - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_we...

Any ideas/plans for how you will do the migration?
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