"My email is now being hosted by Microsoft..." Out of the pan, into the fire. my recommendation: i've been happily using fastmail for years.
Pretty much lost me at that point.
Bye Bye Gmail
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#62Is it easy and advisable to host your own email server on vps?
My opinion after self-hosting for over a decade is that, yes, it's easy. See my comment further inside the thread for my take on whether or not it's advisable.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
I agree with your comment fully, but it also doesn't follow the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fair enough!
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#64"My email is now being hosted by Microsoft..." Out of the pan, into the fire. my recommendation: i've been happily using fastmail for years.
I tried using Hotmail as my primary for a while a few years ago and I've never seen more legitimate mail being entirely dropped with no explanation. It would never reach the inbox, it wouldn't be in the junk folder, it was as if the other party had never even sent it, despite assuring me they had. Never had that happen with Gmail or really any other mail service out there.
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#65Been having a custom domain on Proton for almost 10 years now. No issues and I'm happy my Google sceptisism is now paying dividends
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#66I have more than 20 years of email in my gmail account. How do I even start migrating? And even if I migrate, I will need to keep my address alive and forwarding to my new address at least for a few years. So no privacy gains there either. Does anyone have concrete advice as to how to make the transition?
I think it depends on what you use your email for.
Basically all email I get is from accounts created on services. Almost never it is an email from a real person.
The ones that matter I have been migrating to Proton (e.g.: bank, utilities, etc).
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#67I have had gmail for decades.
The best thing I did recently was turn off the smart features, add a bunch of filters, and unsubscribe from stuff I was no longer interested in.
It was initially a shock to see so many emails I hadn't cared for, but an hour of curation, and it has been a delight ever since.
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#68I have been looking into options too. One option that seemed attractive was called Zoho mail. Any experiences from that?
Been using Zoho for years with no issues. Both via the web interface and IMAP.
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#69I have more than 20 years of email in my gmail account. How do I even start migrating? And even if I migrate, I will need to keep my address alive and forwarding to my new address at least for a few years. So no privacy gains there either. Does anyone have concrete advice as to how to make the transition?
Wrote an article[0] on how to migrate away from Gmail a few years back. Hope it helps!
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#70Since we're all posting about our favourite email provider, Purelymail has been one of my best discoveries of the last year or so. Ten dollars a year (though it's expected that price will go up) for as many mailboxes as you like. There's a webmail too in case you don't want your own IMAP client. I migrated every email I had (except an unmigrateable @gmail.com) to Purelymail over Christmas and I couldn't be happier.
Purelymail is really good. I've been using it for over 4 years now and haven't had any issues around deliverability or availability. It might not be fancy but it has almost any feature you'd want.