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1. Get your own domain and email address 2. Use mailgun to forward to gmail 3. Set Gmail from to your new mail 4. Slowly start changing your login/email everywh

by rb666 9y ago

1. Get your own domain and email address 2. Use mailgun to forward to gmail 3. Set Gmail from to your new mail 4. Slowly start changing your login/email everywhere you use Gmail 5. Make a proper backup of all your Gmail mail In time, you will no longer depend on Gmail for the rest of your life and can just switch to, for example Fastmail, any time.

enitihas 9y ago
Doesn't Fastmail has similar terms of service, i.e, that they can terminate your account any time for any reason whatsoever. Source : https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html This is the biggest reason I am hesitant to try fastmail.
- osel 9y ago
  Fast mail are generally good at support, so unlike google you're not dealing with a black hole when something needs to be fixed.
  - enriquto 9y ago
    Yes, but their terms of service are absolutely preposterous (unjustified and unannounced termination at anytime). Most mail providers can terminate users for any reason, but at least with a few days of notice, allowing you to move the data elsewhere.
- lloeki 9y ago
  This is why step 1. is important, along with step 6. have an automated backup of your mail, whatever the provider.
rocqua 9y ago
I'd like to do this, but 2 things are keeping me with gmail. The first is their spam filter. I find it works pretty damn well. I don't think a self-hosted solution would beat it. But for me, the really killer solution is their 'important mail' filter. I'd love to find an alternative to gmail with a similarly well-functioning system.
- lloeki 9y ago
  "Important mail" just never worked correctly for me :/ Fastmail's spam filter is good† and customisable[0] (with niceties like score displayed right there[1]), to the extent that I just forward things from Gmail by wildcard-disabling the Gmail spam filter[2]. † the learning filter won't kick in until you make it learn 200 messages. [0]: https://s3.postimg.org/v42zaper7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.05.43.png https://s3.postimg.org/v42zaper7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1... [1]: https://s3.postimg.org/ryidkhw4z/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.06.05.png https://s3.postimg.org/ryidkhw4z/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1... [2]: https://s3.postimg.org/lyumgubcj/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.10.00.png https://s3.postimg.org/lyumgubcj/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1...
- phlo 9y ago
  You can add your own domain to Gmail if you use G Suite, the SME offering. It's $50/user/year, but in exchange, you get to turn off ads, and I think there's some support included. Google can still terminate your account without notice, but if you're using your own domain, you'd at least be free to move to another service immediately. Oh, and don't forget to get regular backups, so you don't have to start at zero in the case of an account termination.

by rb666 9y ago

enitihas 9y ago

Doesn't Fastmail has similar terms of service, i.e, that they can terminate your account any time for any reason whatsoever. Source : https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html This is the biggest reason I am hesitant to try fastmail.

osel 9y ago
Fast mail are generally good at support, so unlike google you're not dealing with a black hole when something needs to be fixed.
- enriquto 9y ago
  Yes, but their terms of service are absolutely preposterous (unjustified and unannounced termination at anytime). Most mail providers can terminate users for any reason, but at least with a few days of notice, allowing you to move the data elsewhere.
lloeki 9y ago
This is why step 1. is important, along with step 6. have an automated backup of your mail, whatever the provider.

rocqua 9y ago

I'd like to do this, but 2 things are keeping me with gmail. The first is their spam filter. I find it works pretty damn well. I don't think a self-hosted solution would beat it. But for me, the really killer solution is their 'important mail' filter. I'd love to find an alternative to gmail with a similarly well-functioning system.

lloeki 9y ago
"Important mail" just never worked correctly for me :/ Fastmail's spam filter is good† and customisable[0] (with niceties like score displayed right there[1]), to the extent that I just forward things from Gmail by wildcard-disabling the Gmail spam filter[2]. † the learning filter won't kick in until you make it learn 200 messages. [0]: https://s3.postimg.org/v42zaper7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.05.43.png https://s3.postimg.org/v42zaper7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1... [1]: https://s3.postimg.org/ryidkhw4z/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.06.05.png https://s3.postimg.org/ryidkhw4z/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1... [2]: https://s3.postimg.org/lyumgubcj/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_13.10.00.png https://s3.postimg.org/lyumgubcj/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1...
phlo 9y ago
You can add your own domain to Gmail if you use G Suite, the SME offering. It's $50/user/year, but in exchange, you get to turn off ads, and I think there's some support included. Google can still terminate your account without notice, but if you're using your own domain, you'd at least be free to move to another service immediately. Oh, and don't forget to get regular backups, so you don't have to start at zero in the case of an account termination.