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> it seems so difficult to switch I had an experience changing email address in the past and it's not that difficult, it's just time consuming. What I did is s
by leshenka 7y ago
> it seems so difficult to switch
I had an experience changing email address in the past and it's not that difficult, it's just time consuming. What I did is said to myself "that's it, I'm using this new address from now on". Then over the course of a year I monitored old email and evaluated each message. If I needed it (online shopping account, banking, etc), I went to whatever service sent it and changed my email. Some services don't support changing emails, in that case I would accept the loss and create a new account.
> Can anybody using ProtonMail recommend it?
Privacy concerns aside, to me it's not better nor worse than any other email provider. There is a caveat though. On Android (and web app) you can't search through messages' bodies, only by subject/sender/etc. This is because they don't index them. You can do this on desktop if you're using Bridge app with, say, Thunderbird. Thunderbird then will do the indexing.
- desktop-app 7y ago> You can do this on desktop if you're using Bridge app with, say, Thunderbird. Thunderbird then will do the indexing. Bridge is for paid users only, and it's not open source thing. https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail enables full-text search support for free accounts if the "local store" enabled, described in https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/wiki/FAQ https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail/wiki/FAQ.