Stop using gmail.com for things you care about
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Re: Stop using gmail.com for things you care about
#2I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
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#4I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
I doubt Google is not regularly making mistakes.
(A paid provider might make them too, but has more incentive to care and fix them. + I suspect they actually have less automatic abuse filtering, because free offerings are more vulnerable to that)
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#5I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
It's a good point thought. I use Gmail as my primary email for quite a few things, and my other email is also a free service. What am I to do if I need support for either of these?
What email provider should I use?
Re: Stop using gmail.com for things you care about
#6The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in.
Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
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#7I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
I really thought the same, if you browse on Gmail forums you'll see a lot of similar histories.
Re: Stop using gmail.com for things you care about
#8I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
It's a good point thought. I use Gmail as my primary email for quite a few things, and my other email is also a free service. What am I to do if I need support for either of these? What email provider should I use?
Whatever provider you choose, use your own domain. Then you can always switch.
Re: Stop using gmail.com for things you care about
#9I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
I doubt Google is not regularly making mistakes. (A paid provider might make them too, but has more incentive to care and fix them. + I suspect they actually have less automatic abuse filtering, because free offerings are more vulnerable to that)
The main problem is not assuming those mistakes.
All I got is "read the ToS"
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good point thought. I use Gmail as my primary email for quite a few things, and my other email is also a free service. What am I to do if I need support for either of these? What email provider should I use?
Whatever provider you choose, use your own domain. Then you can always switch.
Thats the easy part. But if there are no good providers, it doesnt matter that you can switch to the next bad one.