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I run a paid service called Kopi that lets you do a similar thing, but it lets you avoid being locked in to your mail provider. One of the reasons I started bu
by Shorn 7y ago
I run a paid service called Kopi that lets you do a similar thing, but it lets you avoid being locked in to your mail provider.
One of the reasons I started building it was so I could transition off GMail to something else like Fastmail. I worried that I needed to get off GMail sooner rather than later because the GMail address was slowly spreading out across my online presence and I was getting concerned about the massive hassle that it would be if some Google automated process decided to close my account. But I never got around to it because I couldn’t decide on a mail provider and didn’t want to go through the hassle of changing over all those addresses. Instead I was able to slowly transition all my accounts, etc. over to Kopi addresses. Now that I’m running my mail through Kopi though, I’m not really worried about a Google account shutdown - though I should probably still get off GMail, just feels less urgent now.
Kopi works by acting as a “mail forwarder” in between the sender and whatever mail provider you want to use. Of course, you’re still locked in if you use a shared domain like kopi.cloud, kopimail.net, etc. - but you can bring your own domain if you want - you don’t have to be locked in to Kopi.
https://kopi.cloud https://kopi.cloud
- labawi 7y agoSo, instead of being locked in to Google you are locked in to Kopi. I guess forwarding is useful, if the domain holder's lock in terms are better, as you can pretty much match them with any mail service provider. If you use your own domain, you are typically not locked in to your provider, unless .. I guess a couple of hours of work could be too much hassle to switch the provider, but there is no need to change your email addresses.