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Great! Now I get the web interface I thoroughly despise viewing on my phone browser delivered directly to my mail client! Puke. I have been strongly consideri

Great! Now I get the web interface I thoroughly despise viewing on my phone browser delivered directly to my mail client! Puke. I have been strongly considering migrating off of G Suite for my domains, files, and emails. Maybe it’s time I bite the bullet rather than keep using a product I have to actively fight to use.

14 8y ago
I too have considered leaving gmail for good. It seems like a bit of a process which I don't really know how to go about it and where to turn to but would love to do.
- ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  First and foremost, I recommend everyone own their email address. That means getting a domain name. I switched from using a gmail.com address to an address at my own domain (I use inbox at mydomainname.com as my main address) over a period of about a year and a half, where my new email address was forwarded to Gmail, but I regularly updated various accounts to use my new address. Then, when I changed the redirect to point to a new service (FastMail), most of my email came with immediately. There's some secondary advantages to this. Not only can you switch providers at the drop of a hat, but you can control your address even if you get banned or blocked by the email provider. If you have, say, a gmail.com address, and your Gmail account gets terminated, you may lose access to all of your other accounts across the Internet as well, since you won't be able to access the email they're connected to. But if you own the domain, and it's forwarded to gmail.com, you can redirect the domain to another email provider, and send a new reset email to regain access to your other accounts.
  - systemspeed 8y ago
    This seems like a really good idea. Do you have any suggestions for a hosted email client similar to Gmail as well?
    - ocdtrekkie 8y ago
      As I said above, I'm pretty taken with FastMail. It's got an incredibly zippy web client, which I value a lot. Besides the privacy aspect, they just have a better product.

14 8y ago

I too have considered leaving gmail for good. It seems like a bit of a process which I don't really know how to go about it and where to turn to but would love to do.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
First and foremost, I recommend everyone own their email address. That means getting a domain name. I switched from using a gmail.com address to an address at my own domain (I use inbox at mydomainname.com as my main address) over a period of about a year and a half, where my new email address was forwarded to Gmail, but I regularly updated various accounts to use my new address. Then, when I changed the redirect to point to a new service (FastMail), most of my email came with immediately. There's some secondary advantages to this. Not only can you switch providers at the drop of a hat, but you can control your address even if you get banned or blocked by the email provider. If you have, say, a gmail.com address, and your Gmail account gets terminated, you may lose access to all of your other accounts across the Internet as well, since you won't be able to access the email they're connected to. But if you own the domain, and it's forwarded to gmail.com, you can redirect the domain to another email provider, and send a new reset email to regain access to your other accounts.
- systemspeed 8y ago
  This seems like a really good idea. Do you have any suggestions for a hosted email client similar to Gmail as well?
  - ocdtrekkie 8y ago
    As I said above, I'm pretty taken with FastMail. It's got an incredibly zippy web client, which I value a lot. Besides the privacy aspect, they just have a better product.