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Why not just use a client for your gmail inbox and your domain one? Not being cheeky just wondering whether I should have an extra forwarding setup.

felixg3 3y ago
You can pull in emails from your old gmail via imap into your new account. Within roughly 5 years from 2010 to 2015 I switched over from an iCloud account and gmail to a custom domain and server. In that time, almost all logins were transferred. 5 years is a long time, though.
justsomehnguy 3y ago
When mighty G would ban your account (completely with Google services, Youtube and whatever) you would know. Or just a plain 'Wrong password' except it's the right password, it's just Google thinks it's wrong, but you can't do anything with that address.
- kylebenzle 3y ago
  Funny, this last one just happened to me and I blamed myself. I made an account for my son, wrote down the username/password then didn't touch it for nearly a year. I got to log in and it keeps saying wrong password.
  - justsomehnguy 3y ago
    As someone who was in tbat situation: Gmail allows you to configure some account to have almost a full access to other Gmail account; do that for any important account you provision.
Gud 3y ago
Why would you wish to stick with Google? They’re probing every e-mail you’ve ever sent or received for data. They will only become worse and worse, the trust I had in them is long gone. Just avoid them and let them go out of business
- c_crank 3y ago
  Google is bad, but every other company and your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails.
  - gabrielgio 3y ago
    > your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails How?
    - c_crank 3y ago
      Both are asked by your various governments to spy on you. I am not privy to the most current technical details - if you go through old NSA presentations that Snowden revealed I am sure you'll get the general idea of how it works.
  - allarm 3y ago
    It's a question of size. I use Fastmail, and even if they do that (and I hope they don't), it's a relatively small company, so the impact is also smaller.
polski-g 3y ago
Because gmail stopped supporting user/pass auth and instead switched to a retardedly complicated Oauth nonsense.
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  But the situation at most email hosts is like this: they only support user/pass auth, no 2FA.
- villedespommes 3y ago
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felixg3 3y ago

You can pull in emails from your old gmail via imap into your new account. Within roughly 5 years from 2010 to 2015 I switched over from an iCloud account and gmail to a custom domain and server. In that time, almost all logins were transferred. 5 years is a long time, though.

justsomehnguy 3y ago

When mighty G would ban your account (completely with Google services, Youtube and whatever) you would know. Or just a plain 'Wrong password' except it's the right password, it's just Google thinks it's wrong, but you can't do anything with that address.

kylebenzle 3y ago
Funny, this last one just happened to me and I blamed myself. I made an account for my son, wrote down the username/password then didn't touch it for nearly a year. I got to log in and it keeps saying wrong password.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  As someone who was in tbat situation: Gmail allows you to configure some account to have almost a full access to other Gmail account; do that for any important account you provision.

Gud 3y ago

Why would you wish to stick with Google? They’re probing every e-mail you’ve ever sent or received for data. They will only become worse and worse, the trust I had in them is long gone. Just avoid them and let them go out of business

c_crank 3y ago
Google is bad, but every other company and your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails.
- gabrielgio 3y ago
  > your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails How?
  - c_crank 3y ago
    Both are asked by your various governments to spy on you. I am not privy to the most current technical details - if you go through old NSA presentations that Snowden revealed I am sure you'll get the general idea of how it works.
- allarm 3y ago
  It's a question of size. I use Fastmail, and even if they do that (and I hope they don't), it's a relatively small company, so the impact is also smaller.

polski-g 3y ago

Because gmail stopped supporting user/pass auth and instead switched to a retardedly complicated Oauth nonsense.

Tijdreiziger 3y ago
But the situation at most email hosts is like this: they only support user/pass auth, no 2FA.
villedespommes 3y ago
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