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If you want Gmail but don't want the risk, you should really use a Google Workspaces account.

by sascha_sl 5y ago

QuarterReptile 5y ago
Can you explain further? I've never heard this as a benefit of Google Workspaces.
- sgjohnson 5y ago
  What he really meant is having email on your own domain. If you have your own domain and Google bans you, you can just go elsewhere. If your @gmail address gets banned, it’s the end of it.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  What he implied is that you should own the domain for your email that way you can change email hosting providers without having to tell everyone and every service your new email.
  - fortran77 5y ago
    Exactly. I use Microsoft's email service. For $69/year I can point several domains (I think the limit is 99) to my inbox. If I get sick of Microsoft, or they block me, it's my domain and I can move it to another provider.
    - DarylZero 5y ago
      $69/yr for service you could run yourself on a couple $5/yr VPSs just by configuring Postfix one time.
      - charcircuit 5y ago
        >just by configuring Postfix one time. If only hosting your own email was this simple.
      - fortran77 5y ago
        For that price you also get access to the entire Office App suite, both online and desktop app, and 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.
donkarma 5y ago
i just use improvmx to forward all my email to my gmail
bluGill 5y ago
You don't want gmail, you just think you do. Get an account where they care about you. I've been on fastmail for years, they don't make money from other ads and so their incentives are aligned with mine. There are other email companies that you can use as well. (Or at least get a paid google account if you really think you need google mail)
- sascha_sl 5y ago
  Thanks for completely ignoring the "if" and recommending my own email provider to me, followed by verbatim repeating what I said in parenthesis. 10/10 mansplain. (I might be slightly salty about the repeated use of "he" further down this chain when "they" is a perfectly fine unassuming default)

If you want Gmail but don't want the risk, you should really use a Google Workspaces account.

QuarterReptile 5y ago

Can you explain further? I've never heard this as a benefit of Google Workspaces.

sgjohnson 5y ago
What he really meant is having email on your own domain. If you have your own domain and Google bans you, you can just go elsewhere. If your @gmail address gets banned, it’s the end of it.
charcircuit 5y ago
What he implied is that you should own the domain for your email that way you can change email hosting providers without having to tell everyone and every service your new email.
- fortran77 5y ago
  Exactly. I use Microsoft's email service. For $69/year I can point several domains (I think the limit is 99) to my inbox. If I get sick of Microsoft, or they block me, it's my domain and I can move it to another provider.
  - DarylZero 5y ago
    $69/yr for service you could run yourself on a couple $5/yr VPSs just by configuring Postfix one time.
    - charcircuit 5y ago
      >just by configuring Postfix one time. If only hosting your own email was this simple.
    - fortran77 5y ago
      For that price you also get access to the entire Office App suite, both online and desktop app, and 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

donkarma 5y ago

i just use improvmx to forward all my email to my gmail

bluGill 5y ago

You don't want gmail, you just think you do. Get an account where they care about you. I've been on fastmail for years, they don't make money from other ads and so their incentives are aligned with mine. There are other email companies that you can use as well. (Or at least get a paid google account if you really think you need google mail)

sascha_sl 5y ago
Thanks for completely ignoring the "if" and recommending my own email provider to me, followed by verbatim repeating what I said in parenthesis. 10/10 mansplain. (I might be slightly salty about the repeated use of "he" further down this chain when "they" is a perfectly fine unassuming default)