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> Same with email: I have a few addresses but my primary one (99% of the time) is tied to outlook.com Open a Gmail account and get it to collect all your email
by scholia 10y ago
> Same with email: I have a few addresses but my primary one (99% of the time) is tied to outlook.com
Open a Gmail account and get it to collect all your email from outlook.com. Also, set up mail forwarding so all your outlook.com email goes to Gmail. (Third backup: a desktop email client.)
I do this the other way round: I use Gmail as my main email address (with my own domain name) with everything forwarded to outlook.com, where sweep makes it really easy to clean up.
It takes a small amount of effort, but it stops me from worrying quite so much about the catastrophic effect of having more than a decade of Gmail deleted...
- _Understated_ 10y agoSounds fairly straightforward... for guys like us! My mum or my sister couldn't do any of that stuff as they wouldn't know where to start. As it happens, I use Outlook client on my laptop and desktop machines so I have a local copy of my emails should it all go to hell but I could still lose my primary email address. As for Gmail... I would rather swallow my tongue than let them near my emails (not saying much considering I use Microsoft at the moment, I know) :)
- scholia 10y ago> As for Gmail... I would rather swallow my tongue than let them near my emails (not saying much considering I use Microsoft at the moment, I know) Understood. I was one of the first adopters for Google Search and then Gmail, but my impression of Google was a lot different from what it is today. The best I can do at the moment is distribute my eggs over many baskets, but I agree, that's not as simple as going all-in with one of the big cloud ecosystems.