Using migadu.com for all my email. But I am not tied to them. Just use your own domain. Switching service providers after that becomes pretty easy. A backup of

Using migadu.com for all my email. But I am not tied to them. Just use your own domain. Switching service providers after that becomes pretty easy. A backup of emails in gmail can be downloaded over IMAP and saved offline. Offline searches in Thunderbird are many times quicker than within gmail.