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I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
by wineisfine 10y ago
I doubt Google is just closing accounts without a good reason.
- detaro 10y agoI 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)
- dvl 10y agoThe main problem is not assuming those mistakes. All I got is "read the ToS"
- wineisfine 10y agoPerhaps youre a spammer? Who knows. Just because you're on HN doesnt make it all good
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoIt'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?
- jakobegger 10y agoWhatever provider you choose, use your own domain. Then you can always switch.
- eximius 10y agoThats the easy part. But if there are no good providers, it doesnt matter that you can switch to the next bad one.
- teach 10y agoI hear nothing but good things about Fastmail. I'm pretty sure Gmail is the best free provider, but Fastmail is probably the best paid one.
- detaro 10y agoFastmail seems to be getting a lot of love. I like mailbox.org (from Germany, so maybe not the fastest in US). There are many providers of hosted Exchange or other Groupware, at least some of them have to be good.
- Silhouette 10y agoBut if there are no good providers Mail is the lingua franca of the Internet. There are many, many alternatives to just getting an account with one of the handful of well-known huge providers and being locked in to whatever they want to do to you afterwards. Just about any ISP will provide the necessary servers to send and receive electronic mail. Plenty of hosting services will let you keep your own mail store in a remote, always-on location. Either of these also works fine with your own domain with any decent provider, and either costs a modest amount to run for something so important and useful. If you are limiting your options to a specific type of webmail service then of course you're going to be stuck with whatever downsides that comes with, but that's far from your only option.
- drdaeman 10y agoIf there are no good providers, you can always set up your own¹², or hire an engineer to do this for you. ___ ¹) On a leased hardware, network and address, but with proper backup and failover strategies, hosting providers are interchangeable (or one can always host on their own hardware) and it's somewhat less likely ICANN or your local registrar would yank your domain name registration than Google would do so to your account. ²) There are (nearly) one-click solutions for this, like https://cozy.io/ https://cozy.io/ or https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/
- the_common_man 10y agoSee cloudron.io as well.
- greenyoda 10y agoYou could try FastMail. I've been very happy with their service, and have even had good experiences with their customer support.
- dethi 10y agoProtonmail if you want really secure and private email service.
- dvl 10y agoI really thought the same, if you browse on Gmail forums you'll see a lot of similar histories.
- JabavuAdams 10y agoAt this point, that's a well-known psychological bias. Gmail is a large-scale impersonal system / organization. In every other walk of life, we see such large organizations making mistakes, for essentially inscrutable reasons. Why would Gmail / Google be any different? The onus is on you to show that, rather than the OP to prove he's above reproach / faultless.
- falcolas 10y agoNot to mention that it's impossible to prove a negative - that you've never broken Google's EULA in this case.
- wozer 10y agoWhy do you doubt that? There are quite a few examples.