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The other thing you should be doing is _not_ using the gmail.com domain for your email - at least for account sign-ups to important services. Buy a cheap domai
by davesmylie 5y ago
The other thing you should be doing is _not_ using the gmail.com domain for your email - at least for account sign-ups to important services.
Buy a cheap domain and use that with your gmail account. All the convenience of gmail, but if the worst happens and you lose your account, you can pick a new email provider, redirect your email and you're back in business without losing access to all those accounts tied to your xyz@gmail.com email address.
- tempestn 5y agoI've always done this, but I've run an email server forever so it wasn't any added hassle to have gmail download the emails using pop. I'm curious how you go about it without running your own server. Do you pay for the google email service? Or just use your registrar's email forwarding to forward from your custom email to your gmail? Something else? I tried forwarding in the past for simplicity but found it results in a significantly higher rate of false positives in the spam folder.