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For 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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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?
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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…
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.
No. 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 ano…
and fullname@gmail.com for friends.
The risk of losing access to my gmail account without any possible recourse is just too big. I'm not afraid of being hacked, but much more so of being wrongly identified as a spammer or whatever else gets you banned from google these days.
I'm using addresses at my own domain as my primary address and I'll have my mail server just forward all mail to google. If I ever lose that google account, I can quickly change the alias and I can continue to receive mail without anybody else having to change anything.
By the way - doing something like this is really, really easy - all of you guys with various VPS and/or EC2 accounts, install an MTA software and add your alias to /etc/aliases. This works out-of-the box with any MTA package out there.
I prefer this over hosting my own mailbox or over any other mail provider because of the (still) unique user interface of gmail. I love the way how archiving mail works and the speed of the web based mail client. After trying to find good mail clients for years and years, gmail is the one that provides the (for me) best user experience. And I'm really, really picky about my mail client choices.