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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?

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Post by yuvadam »

ashleyblackmore wrote: post #25
yuvadam wrote: post #6

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?

I don't really care about Gmail 'features' that I will be missing out on, spam detection is probably the thing I'll miss the most, but that's a tradeoff I can live with.

Other than that, there's the thing that I need to trust my VM provider, but that much easier than trusting a data mining conglomerate with your private conversations.

In the end, self hosting an email server isn't that big of a deal to set up and maintain.

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

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Post by kaolinite »

Personal domain hosted by (free) Google Apps. I'm looking to move away but I don't want to host myself and I can't find anyone decent.

I want to use Gandi email hosting as I've used them before and they seem pretty reliable - however to do that I'd need to transfer my domain from 123-reg and because it's a Spanish domain, it's a bit more difficult. I'd use 123-reg's email but I don't really trust them.

If anyone knows any good email hosting providers, please reply with recommendations.

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

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Post by EugeneOZ »

DanBC wrote: post #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…

Try KeePass.

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

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Post by ShaneOG »

Yes, but I am in the process of changing that. I'm moving to Fastmail.fm

I'm starting fresh and will be filtering mail by address in future: Gmail for non-personal stuff, signups, mailing lists, etc. My personal domain(s) for friends and important things.

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

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Post by specto »

yuvadam wrote: post #33
ashleyblackmore wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't really care about Gmail 'features' that I will be missing out on, spam detection is probably the thing I'll miss the most, but that's a tradeoff I can live with. Other than that, there's the thing that I need to trust my VM provider, but that much easier than trusting a data mining conglomerate with your private conversations. In the end, self hosting an email server isn't that big of a deal to set up and mai…

Spam is really the only reason I haven't switched over to self-hosting at this point. Does anyone know of a good service or method to provide similar spam protection that google provides?

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

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Post by micheljansen »

I am using my own domain, but after trying self-hosting (downtime stress while I am on vacation) and paid hosting (lacks decent webmail), I now use Google Apps to actually host the email.

My reasons for using my own domain are simple:

* I want to be able to switch whenever I want, without having to email everyone telling me I changed address.

* When I use it professionally, my domain is my "business card", where I host my website with portfolio etc.

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