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I've used a custom domain + gmail for the last decade. Earier this year I got sufficiently spooked and decided to switch email. The migration to fastmail.fm ,
by afandian 6y ago
I've used a custom domain + gmail for the last decade. Earier this year I got sufficiently spooked and decided to switch email.
The migration to fastmail.fm , including a decade of old mail messages, was flawless (if slow, but it's a lot of data!). I highly recommend this route.
- mjochim 6y agoDid you upload all the messages from your client to fastmail or were they copied directly from Google to fastmail?
- kioleanu 6y agoYou just connect your Google account in the Fastmail settings and they set everything automatically
- blunte 6y agoI wonder how long this will last until Google finds a way to prevent the migration out...
- black_knight 6y agoGDPR specifies the right to data-portability. In Europe services have to provide data in a machine readable, commonly used format for export.
- FeepingCreature 6y ago(For just this reason.) And that's why I think the GDPR is one of the best things the EU has ever done.
- mirthflat83 6y agoThank god for GDPR. Shame on me for thinking that this kind of regulation was dumb
- blunte 6y agoYou're excused, based on the useless and annoying cookie notice law.
- afandian 6y agoAll the better to get out while you still can!
- hedora 6y agoFrom what I can tell, it just uses standard protocols like IMAP (at least, it did when I moved from a non-gmail provider to it).
- ValentineC 6y agoGmail uses IMAP, but there are rate limits that seem to have been implemented recently: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en The rate limits won't stop someone from eventually migrating out, but it might take a while.
- ystad 6y agowhat other providers did you look at other than fastmail. Is there a TOS that might lead fast mail to lock one out?