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I once forgot my gmail password. There was no way for me to recover it. Eventually I found it after 6 months, but it was a very difficult 6 months. bank emai
by pettycashstash2 5y ago
I once forgot my gmail password. There was no way for me to recover it. Eventually I found it after 6 months, but it was a very difficult 6 months. bank emails, work emails, etc were in the google 7th circle of hell, and there was nothing I could do. I don't have any good advice for you really except is there a way you could vpn to a location closer to where you typically access gmail?
- bigiain 5y agoI have one of the old gsuite free accounts with a personal domain, so my backup plan for that for the last ~15 years has always been "if google graveyard gmail, at least I can but mail service elsewhere and update my MX records". Now they're going to start charging me for that, I'm considering which non-google mail option I will choose instead, I've been sticking with gmail against all my privacy and ethical objections, because it works so well and is free. It's no longer going to be free soon, and I'm pretty sure their competitors work as well as they do (or very close to), so I can _finally_ get over the inertia that's made me feel _almost_ bad enough to leave gmail but not quite bad enough to pay money or do the work required. Right now, it looks like Fastmail or Protonmail are going to get my money.