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what's a good alternative to gmail?
by suyash 7y ago
what's a good alternative to gmail?
- rajasimon 7y agoRegister your own domain name and use superhuman or any email client. This is the best way.
- prophesi 7y agoFor email clients, Thunderbird on desktop, FairEmail on Android. All open-source. It should be pretty straightforward for them to deduce what your Gmail SMTP settings are, and you'll be able to add your emails from other providers as well. If you mean actual email providers, that'll be a bit harder to find. Most of the good ones don't have a free tier. FastMail is solid. ProtonMail has a free tier, but you have to pay to access the IMAP/SMTP bridge (which lets you use it with Thunderbird/FairEmail).
- gravitas 7y agoOne thing that many don't talk about - what about Contacts, presuming we're using the Google Contacts integration? Email for me is kind of useless without being able to manage Contacts right alongside it, which Google integrates extremely well on Android.
- prophesi 7y agoYeah, that's very true. I'm not sure what good alternatives there are for Contacts/Calendar/etc. You'd need to find a good service that can sync your CalDAV/CardDavs, as the best part about Google's Contacts is that you simply need to login to your account to get them all back on a new device. I personally run my own NextCloud instance for that, which is obviously not a viable option for those without the time or technical skills to maintain that.