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I would also recommend never storing mission-critical stuff only in your email. Losing the contents of your inbox should be the least of your concerns if there’
by oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
I would also recommend never storing mission-critical stuff only in your email. Losing the contents of your inbox should be the least of your concerns if there’s a chance you might lose access to your account. There are far worse repercussions - e.g. a) how do you update everyone else's record of your email address? b) how many services have you locked yourself out of, or made doing so much more likely?
- chii 7y agoIt makes owning your email address (including the domain name part) crucial. It's time people separated the hosting of email from the interface (the address).
- fyp 7y agoI think most people just don't realize how easy this is and you can even keep using gmail. Most domain registrars have free email forwarding so you can forward *@domain.com to your gmail. This by itself is already good enough for signing up for things or resetting passwords. If you also need to send from that domain in gmail there's just a few more steps: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157?hl=en
- harperlee 7y agoUnfortunately it is no longer free to use a custom address in gmail; it used to be that just owning a domain would do the trick.