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The first step is moving to a custom domain. You can stay on gmail if you want; but set up a custom domain, and set up email on it and tell everyone to use your
by josephg 5y ago
The first step is moving to a custom domain. You can stay on gmail if you want; but set up a custom domain, and set up email on it and tell everyone to use your new email address.
Once you have a custom domain, it becomes way easier to change to another email service without losing any messages.
- gregmac 5y agoTotally agree. I've been doing this for over a decade. I've barely used my actual Gmail address for anything. I've gone through many incarnations of email, but at some point Gmail was just a solid enough UI, had the best spam filtering, and so I switched. Everything just forwards to my Gmail address. I have a personal domain which is also setup as an outbound address. Several other domains/addresses also forward. I also do a wildcard *@something.example.org which I use for accounts/signups (unique email per site), which lets me track who's selling my address (or is breached) and has some other security benefits.
- cube00 5y agoThe wildcards are fantastic. I got some spam the other week, emailed the company that passed on my address (they didn't even think to remove their website name from the address) and ask for them to remove all my personal information and they couldn't even a muster a reply. Guess they weren't expecting that.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSo when you reply in gmail, that reply is sent using the smtp server for your custom email domain? Where do you host that?
- Someone1234 5y agoI've had Google Workspaces/Gsuite like that, but how do you accomplish the same thing with just gmail? Do you have a separate email service forward to it, or is there some way to set gmail as your DNS MX mail server and have it direct a custom domain into (and out of?) your gmail address?