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I tried to limit as much as possible switching between email addresses. Because of there is no central authority to bind an email to a person, you cannot reall
by thibaultamartin 7y ago
I tried to limit as much as possible switching between email addresses.
Because of there is no central authority to bind an email to a person, you cannot really ever delete an address.
I used to have a gmail address, and then I switched to a custom domain + email provider when I started to want some emancipation from Google. My gmail address still exists but redirects emails to my new address. I refrained from creating aliases to that address for the very reason that I wouldn’t be able to delete them.
- chdaniel 7y agoWhen you say email provider, is that an Exchange account? Or just roundcube/free thing from your custom domain? What do you use to read/send emails? And did I get it right that you only have two now i.e. custom domain and the gmail one?
- thibaultamartin 7y agoYes I have two addresses, the custom (actively used) and the gmail (legacy, forwards everything to my custom). I registered my domain at Gandi.net, which offers access to their smtp and imap servers when you do so. They are my provider atm, but since I own the domain I could switch to self hosting anytime.
- chdaniel 7y agoWhat do you do if you get a new device? Is it painful to set these things up across your devices? They'd need to have the same signature, display name etc.